SALADINO RECURRENCE WITH WINS IN METERS 8.56
Gebrselassie wins when Six Hengelo Beijing 2008 Olympic champions and five world champions gathered at the meeting in Hengelo. EFE
01/06/09 - 19:52
Grand duel in the pit
As Gebrselassie, also kept his favorite condition Panamanian Irving Saladino, who won the victory in the long jump in comeback after recovering from the injury he suffered after winning the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Saladino won in Hengelo with a mark of 8.56, 17 inches of her personal best, ahead of Dwight Phillips, who jumped 8.54 meters, and French Idiri Salim, who fell to 8, 23 meters. A total of six Beijing 2008 Olympic champions, including himself Irving Saladino, and five world champions gathered at the meeting in Hengelo.
One of the expected duels of the day was the one who had to face the Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele with Olympic runner-up 1,500 meters, the Kenyan Asbel Kiprop, who could receive the gold medal after doping Bahraini Rashid Ramzi, but it was never produced.
Kiprop won the event with a time of 3 minutes, 34 seconds and 45 hundredths, while Bekele did not finish the race. Some of the surprises of the day came from the hand of the women, beating Ethiopia's Burka Gelete in the test of 1,500 meters, while a favorite, Kenyan Olympic champion Nancy Lagat, just eleventh.
Olympic champion in weight, the Polish Thomasz Majewski, had to settle for second place, beaten by more than forty centimeters launched (21.59 meters) U.S. rival Reese Hoffa.
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