News22 May 2003


Injuries hamper Montgomery and Schumann

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Nils Schumann wins in Sydney (© Getty Images)

World 100m record holder Tim Montgomery (USA) and Olympic 800m champion Nils Schumann (GER) have confirmed significant injury problems in the last 24 hours.

Montgomery yesterday withdrew from Saturday's Prefontaine Classic - IAAF Super Grand Prix - meeting (24 May), saying he was suffering from a sore Achilles tendon.

Organisers said that training workouts this week indicated Montgomery would have risked injury if he ran.

Montgomery, who set the World record of 9.78 last September in Paris, was to have met European champion Dwain Chambers of Britain, and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis in the meeting.

NB. A full preview of the Prefontaine meeting will be published on the IAAF internet tomorrow 23 May

Also announcing injury problems yesterday was Germany’s Oympic 800 metres champion Nils Schumann, who due to a heel injury might even miss the 9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics which take place in Paris (23-31 August 2003).

His coach Dieter Hermann said the 25-year-old German had not been able to run for two weeks because of inflammation to the heel, and might need surgery.

"At the moment training on the track is unthinkable," Hermann told the sports news agency SID. "We're trying to heal the injury with traditional methods and we have to wait and see whether that works."

Schumann has not competed since the German indoor championships in February, when he was defeated by Rene Herms.

Agencies

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