Chicherova clears 2.00m and Tries for 2.04m, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder

Anna Chicherova, 2011 Brussels DL, photo by PhotoRun.net

Anna Chicherova, the defending Olympic champion, continues a brilliant beginning to her 2012 London campaign, with a nice clearance of 2.00m, and good try at 2.04m, plus a victory in Banksa Bystryka, in the Czech Republic earlier today…

CHICHEROVA 200 AND TRIES FOR 204

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BANSKA
BYSTRICA
(SVK, Feb 8): In the women’s competition, Anna Chicherova of Russia
won as expected with a height of 2.00.
The Olympic champion saw her last remaining rival, Belgium’s Tia
Hellebaut, depart the competition at 1.98 and was jumping alone after
that. Tonight’s
competition came only four days after the Daegu world champion jumped
a world-leading
(and personal-best) 2.06 in the Arnstadt competition. Her night was
blemish-free through the
deciding height of 1.98, with prior clearances at 1.85, 1.90 and 1.96.
When the pressure was finally off she had a momentary
lapse with a first-jump miss at 2.00.
But that was quickly corrected with a powerful clearance with much
space to spare. Moving the bar to 2.04, the Russian ended the evening
with
three creditable but unsuccessful jumps. â€žI wanted the 204 but was
simply too
tired after the Russian record, but crowd was excellent and I will
return
here,” said Chicerova. Hellebaut, returning to action this season after
maternity leave, sagged a bit at 1.93 and needed three attempts. But
she summoned reserve energy at 1.96 with
a first-try success to secure second place. ChauntÃ© Lowe likewise used
a first-jump
clearance at 1.93 to take third place ahead of Antonietta DiMartino on
a countback.
Lowe had close attempts at 196. Very interesting close attempts also for
young
Italian Trost at new would be Italian junior record height of 193. Top
three
are mothers of together 5 daughters. Results:
Women: 1. Chicherova (RUS) 2.00
[1.85 – 1.90 – 1.96 – 1.98 – 2.00/2 – 2.04/xxx]; 2.
Hellebaut (BEL) 1.96; 3. Lowe
(USA) 1.93; 4. DiMartino (ITA)
1.93; 5. Trost (ITA) 1.90; 6. Spencer (LCA) 1.85; 7. Melfort (FRA)
1.85; 8. Dobrynska (UKR) 1.80; 9. Kuntsevich (RUS) 1.80; 10.
Silnicova (CZE) 1.75.

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 50-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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