Soboleva strikes indoor gold in Kingdom of Spain

Valencia, Espana (AP) Yelena Soboleva stone her own world record in gaining the 1,500m title at the Macrocosm Indoor Titles on Sun.

Yelena Soboleva keeps after scene the first world record of the Valencia event.

The Russian ruined in 3 minutes, 57.71 seconds to trim 0.34 seconds off her former mark, head off compatriot Yuliya Fomenko (3:59.41) and Gelete Burqa of Abyssinia (3:59.75).

It was the sec time this wintertime that Soboleva improved on the record, taking in her USD 90,000 for the title and record as she set the first fresh bench mark of any event at this year’s championships.

Mare Mutola lost extinct on a record eighth indoor gold medallion, coating tierce in the women’s 800m slow victor Tamsyn Jerry Lee Lewis of Australia.

At 35 and bunking in her last indoor championships, Mutola turned tail a miserable tactical subspecies and let Lewis sweep past her on the inside with 300m to go.

Jerry Lee Lewis acquired in 2 minutes, 2.57 seconds, edging Tetiana Petlyuk of the Ukraine by 0.09 seconds.

“I should have made better,” said Mutola, who ruined in 2:02.97.

Jerry Lee Lewis said she could non get about the multitude from the external, so she got a relocation on the inside to gain.

“I acquired picked up by surprise,” Mutola said.

But no one was more surprised than Lewis, the 29-twelvemonth-older who acquired her first major title.

“I was simply desiring to get the final. I made win, made non I?” Jerry Lee Lewis said. “Mare is a star. I ever precious to get close to her.”

Mutola, who acquired her first gold in 1993, withdrew from indoor contest after the subspecies, but the Republic of Mozambique moon curser will nowadays focus on acquiring a sec Olympic gold in Beijing.

In the women’s 400m, Olesya Zykina of Russia acquired in 51.09 — simply 0.01 sec in front of mate Natalya Nazarova, with Shareese Wood of the Joined Provinces tierce.

Nazarova acquired gold in the 4×400m relay for her seventh gold overall to bind Mutola.

In the last event, Blanca Vlasic of Hrvatska acquired her 22nd consecutive high jump contest, getting the better of Olympic champion Elena Slesarenko of USSR and Vita Palomar of the Ukrayina.

Boy Orator of the Platte Mud of the Joined Provinces earliest gained gold in the heptathlon after Olympic champion Roman Sebrle pulled away because of hurt.

Mud open with a profits in the 60m and gained three more cases, marking a personal best 6,371 points for his sec world title.

He could have posed a fresh details record by running away under 2 minutes, 45.47 seconds in the final 1,000-meter event but fought to a last-place time of 2:55.64 — still a time of year best.

Mud was proud of with the events after enduring life unwellness — he late dropped down 12 pounds — and an injured hamstring tendon.

“If you had got enquired me two hebdomads ago if I would be here, I in all probability would have said you I would non be at this come across,” said Mud, who was asked for after neglecting to measure up. “This only shows how good my grooming has been travelling.”

The 28-twelvemonth-older acquired the decathlon in Helsingfors, Suomi, in 2005.

In the s room 400m, President Tyler Christopher of Canada gained in an world-conducting 45.67 seconds, rush past Johan Wissman of Kingdom of Sweden (46.04) and Chris Brown of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (46.26).

Tariku Bekele earned his first major title by gaining the s room 3,000m from Alice Paul Kipsiele Koech of Republic of Kenya and bloke Ethiopian Abreham Cherkos.

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March 10, 2008 · Filed Under General

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