Hello fans,
The last leg of the Golden League meet concluded in Brussels on the 4th of September.
American Sanya Richards - 400 meters, Russian Yelena Isinbayeva - Pole Vault and Ethiopian Kenenanisa Bekele - 5000 meters picked up 333,333 dollars each as they shared the one-million-dollar jackpot on offer at the Golden League series after winning the same events at all six Golden League meets in one season. This is in addition to the one kilogram of gold they took home.
The last leg of the Golden League meet concluded in Brussels on the 4th of September.
American Sanya Richards - 400 meters, Russian Yelena Isinbayeva - Pole Vault and Ethiopian Kenenanisa Bekele - 5000 meters picked up 333,333 dollars each as they shared the one-million-dollar jackpot on offer at the Golden League series after winning the same events at all six Golden League meets in one season. This is in addition to the one kilogram of gold they took home.
World Pole Vault record holder Yelena Isinbayeva managed to clear 4.70 with her first jump that won her the competition and 333,333 dollars. She later failed at breaking her own world record of 5.07 metres.Poland's Monika Pyrek and German Silke Spiegelburg took second and third place respectively with the same height that Isinbayeva cleared. This is the second time Yelena has shared the jackpot.
Richards won the women's 400m race - as she has in all five previous Golden League meets this season - and thus was the first athlete to be assured at least a share of the jackpot. It is the third time that she cracked the jackpot. Richards, who also won the gold at the world championships last month, took first place in a world-best time this year of 48.83 seconds, beating Britain's Christine Ohuruogu into second place by more than a second. Ohuruogu finished in 50.43. Jamaican Shericka Williams was third.
Bekele looked beatable at one stage in the men's 5,000m race at the Memorial Van Damme meet as he seemingly held back, but on the final straight he proved too strong for compatriot Imane Merga, who finished 0.35 seconds behind. Bekele's winning time was 12:55.31 seconds, while Vincent Chepkok took third place.
OLDEST WORLD RECORD BROKEN AT BRUSSELS
The men's Kenyan 4 x 1,500m relay team set a new world record, beating the 32-year-old previous best mark set by Germany in 1977. William Biwott, Gideon Gathimba, Geoffrey Rono and Augustine Choge won in a time of 14:36.23 minutes, to beat the oldest world record on book of the sport's governing body IAAF.
Best wishes,
Manoj
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