World
champions Edwards, May win at Italian meet
AP
29 August 2001 – Rovereto, Italy - World champions Jonathan Edwards and Fiona
May scored convincing wins in the triple and long jump events at ‘’Palio della
Quercia" (Oak Prize), Italy’s oldest athletics meet, Wednesday night.
Edwards beat British compatriot Larry Achike by 17 centimetres in the men’s triple jump, with a winning measure of 17.27 metres in this northern city. English-born Italian jumper May took the women’s long jump with a leap of 6.71 metres, ahead of Trude Vaszi of Hungary, who had 6.60.
Fabrizio Mori, a former world champion and silver medalist at this year’s Championships in Edmonton, beat Jamaican Jan Weakley and Britain’s Antonu Borsumato in the 400-metre hurdles, with a strong finish and winning time of 48.72 seconds.
Nigerian sprinter Uchenna Emedolu won the 100-metre dash in 10.33 seconds, edging Darvis Patton of the United States by .04.
Brazilian runner Sanderlei Parrela won the men’s 400-metre in 1:44.49 minutes.
Argentina Paulino of Mozambique won the women’s 800-metre and Russian Yelenia Isinbayeva the women’s pole vault, clearing 4.20 metres.
The next major meet in Italy is the last IAAF Grand Prix meeting of the year (GPII) at Rieti on Sunday.
Leading Results
Men
100 metres: 1. Uchenna Emedolu, (NIG), 10.33. 2. Darvis Patton (USA), 10.37.
3.
Maurizio Checcucci, (ITA) 10.39.
800 metres: 1. Nicholas
Wachira (KEN) 1:44.49, 2. Trinity Gray (USA) 1:44.54, 3.
Nicolas Aissat (FRA) 1:44.98
400m: 1. Sanderlei Parrela (BRA) 45.38, 2. Antonio Pettigrew (USA) 46.02, 3.
Marco Raquil (FRA) 46.16
Triple jump: 1. Jonathan
Edwards (GBR) 17.27m, 2. Larry Achike (GBR) 17.10, 3. Carl Taillpierre (FRA)
16.78
High jump: 1. Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) 2.27m, 2.
Abderramane Hammad (ALG) 2.24, 3.
Giulio
Ciotti (ITA) 2.21
2000m steeplechase: 1. John Lagat (KEN) 5:18.51, 2. Stanley Kibiwott (KEN)
5:18.60, 3. Philip Tarus (KEN) 5:26.00
400m hurdles: 1. Fabrizio Mori (ITA) 48.72, 2. Jan Weakley (JAM) 48.80, 3.
Antony Borsumato (GBR) 49.30
5000: 1. William Kalya (KEN) 13:19.74. 2. Albert Chepkurui (KEN), 13:23.44. 3.
Pius Muli (KEN), 13:24.47.
Javelin : 1. Aleksandr Ivanov (RUS), 79.94. 2. Voldemar Lusis (LIT), 79.85. 3. Alberto Desiderio, (ITA) 74.60.
Women
200m: 1. Manuela Levorato (ITA), 23.21. 2. Nadijna Kaltouma (CHA), 23.25. 3.
Endurance Ojokolo (NIG) 23.43.
800m: 1. Argentina Paulinho (MOZ) 2:00.73, 2. Charmaine Howell (JAM) 2:00.90,
3. Oksana Zbrozek (RUS) 2:01.42
400m hurdles: 1. Anna Olichwierczuk (POLl) 55.89, 2. Natalia Torshina (RUS)
56.63, 3. Tacko Diouf (SEN) 57.89
Long jump: 1. Fiona May (ITA) 6.71m, 2. Trude Vaszi (HUN) 6.60, 3. Lyudmila
Galkina (RUS) 6.58
Pole vault: 1. Yelenia Isinbayeva (RUS) 4.20m, 2. Krisztina Molnar (HUN) 4.10,
3.
Monique De Wilt (NED) 4.10
