Cindy Billaud 12.79 over three hurdles, by EME News

Cindy Billaud, photo by PhotoRun.net

BILLAUD 12.79 OVER THE HURDLES

MONTGERON (FRA, May 11): Elite meeting which opens the track meetings season in France registered despite bad weather new meeting records in the speciality of this event, the 250 m sprints. In women category 29.89 by Myriam Soumare and among men Jeffrey John 26.46. Fast hurdles by Cindy Billaud 12.79 (+1.3) in heats and 12.80 (+1.2) in final. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde returning from Doha achieved 13.45 (+1.3) over Briton Lawrence Clarke 13.57. Soumare was active being also twice second at the meet (600 in long jump and 11.60 in the 100 m). Here the winner Marie-Jose Talou of Ivory Coast 11.46 (+0.7). Moroccan men wins by Aziz Ouhadi in the 100 m 10.45 (+1.9) and Nader Belhanbel 1:47.35 in the 800 m. World medalist Melina Robert-Michon won discus 60.22. In the 3000 m Moroccan Sofiyane Bougantar won the 3000 m in 7:52.64 over Czech Jakub Holusa who clocked PB 7:52.82. World indoor medalist Andriy Protsenko of Ukraine won the high jump with 226 over Russian Lev Misirov 224 and Romanian Mihai Donisan also 224.

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(Editor’s note: France has a plethora of small meetings. On my bucket list in 2015, is to visit many of their indoor events. I will attend the second half of the DL season in Europe, plus the Europeans and World Cup! )

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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