Istvan Gyulai Memorial Hungarian GP, Budapest: Sanya 22.70, Taylor 17.30 and Richardson, 13.15, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder

August 20 was a busy day, with several meets in Europe. The Linz Gugl and Gyulai Memorial were both on Monday and there were some strong performances. Sanya Richards-Ross ran 22.70 to the delight of the 16,000 fans. Christian Taylor improved from last Friday’s 17.11m to 17.30m and Jason Richardson ran 13.15 to win the 110m hurdles.

Sanya Richards-Ross, DN. Galan Stockholm, 17, August 2012,

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EME NEWS (AUG 20, 2012)

Sanya 22.70, Taylor 17.30, Richardson 13.15

BUDAPEST (HUN, Aug 20): Second Istvan Gyulai Memorial Hungarian Grand Prix at Puskas Stadium with top crowd of 16 000 registered favorite wins. Olympic 400 m gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross won the 200 m in 22.70 (0.0) ahead of Aleen Bailey 23.02. Christian Taylor was the best in the triple jump (17.30, +0.4) with second Sheryf El-Sheryf 16.98 (-0.1). And another US star Jason Richardson was timed with 13.15 (+0.1) at the hurdles beating Jamaican Andrew Riley 13.39 and US Ryan Wilson 13.42. Richardson was at the end awarded the best result of the day by the scoring tables which author Attila Spiriev was the meet director. Crowd also cheered for home olympic winner Krisztian Pars who dominated the hammer with 79.74 ahead of Sergey Litvinov 77.97 and Lukas Melich 76.65. Fast season bests in the women 400 m for Shericka Williams of Jamaica 50.35 and Italian Libania Grenot 50.55. Caleb Ndiku clocked fast 7:35.41 in the 3000 m beating John Kipkoech 7:38.74 and Edwin Soi 7:41.50. Olympic bronze winner Timothy Kitum posted 1:45.39 800 m win over U17 athlete Edwin Meli 1:45.41 and Job Kinyor 1:45.98. In great 200 m duel Jamaican Mario Forsythe clocked 20.33 (-0.7) and beat US olympic relay medalist Darvis Patton 20.34 (for both fastest times of the year). Only third US 200 m Olympian Maurice Mitchell 20.68. Jarrin Solomon of Trinidad got the 400 m in 45.48 and Kenyan Sylvia Kibet the 3000 m in 9:02.68. In other technical events high jump ended with a jump-off won by Greek Konstantinos Baniotis over Slovak Michal Kabelka (224 in the competition) when they went down to 221 where both cleared and then Baniotis made 223. Belarus Nastasya Mironchyk-Ivanova won the long jump with 679 (+1.0) ahead of US Whitney Gipson 666 (+1.3) and US Michelle Carter the shot put (18.84). After the meet Hungarian olympic medalists from all sports were presented in the stadium.

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Larry Eder has had a 52-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." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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