QUOTE OF THE SESSION

“I just smelt the gold medal.
You just find that extra gear. I’m just lost for words right now,” Andy Turner
after winning the 110 m
hurdles.

„There
was no question that I would win this race,” Mariya Savinova after 800 m (RRW).

„It’s been my dream for many,
many years to win a medal like this,” Arturo Casado after winning the 1500 m (RRW).

RESULT OF THE SESSION

Natalya Antuykh 52.92 meet
record and European leader. She is the fourth best European performer ever.
European junior record by Eusebio Caceres in long jump qualification 827
(+1.7). Russian Yulia Zarudneva beating home favorite Marta Dominguez in 3000m
steeple.

SURPRISE OF THE SESSION

Kevin Borlee attacking from
behind and winning the 400 m
over 5 runners with faster time this year (first gold for Belgium after 35
years). Russian Tatyana Firova was not expected to win, but she did and clocked
european lead 49.89. German Carsten Schlangen second in 1500 m.

FAVORITES FALLS

British hurdler Sharman false
started in the 110 m
hurdles, in the final Czech Petr Svoboda was leading but made a mistake at
hurdler number seven. Russian long jumper Pavel Shalin out in qualification.

STATS (by Ken Nakamura)

200 m: Lemaitre sixth man to
win both 100m and 200m in the European Championships.  Okikwelu was the last one to accomplish this
feat in 2006.  In fact Lemaitre became
the first European born sprinter to win both 100m and 200m at Euro Champ since
P Mennea did so in 1978. The margin of victory for Lemaitre, 0.01 second,
matching the margin of victory by Olaf Prenzler in 1982 European Championships
Two medal for FRA matched their best performances of gold and bronze in 1966
European Championships.

400 m: It was the first medal
sweep (winning gold, silver and bronze) ever at W400m in the European
championships.  The 4th place time of
50.43 by Grenot matches the fastest 4th place time in history by
K Emmelmann in 1986.

MLJ qualifying:  7.94m by P Mykolaitis is the longest
non-qualifying jump in history of Euro champ, replacing 7.85m by A Muller
in 1990.

W1500m heats: 4:04.14 by
Alimonova is the fastest time in the heat of W1500m in Euro Champ, replacing
4:04.42 by Ayhan in 2002. 4:06.89 by N Kareiva is the fastest non-qualifying
time in W1500m at Euro Champ, replacing 4:07.52 by Vera Michallek from 1986.

W3000mSC:  Best marks for place was reset for places 1
(championships record) through 8.  The
margin of victory as well as the difference between 3rd and 4th place time was
smallest ever. It was the first medal for ESP in this event at Euro Champ. With
gold and bronze  RUS has one of each
medal at this event in the Euro Champ In fact, RUS is the only country with
more than 1 medal in this event (only twice contested)

WPV:  Best marks for place for 4th (4.65 replacing
4.50), 5th (4.65 replacing 4.50), 6th (4.55 replacing 4.50), 7th (4.55
replacing 4.45) were reset and for 2nd and 3rd were tied. Feofanova’s 4.75m is
the highest vault in Barcelona replacing 4.50m by Lacy Janson from 2008. More
importantly, Feofanova became the first two-time champion in WPV in the
European Championships.

HEP 200m: J Ennis’s 23.21 is
the fastest 200m during the Heptathlon replacing 23.40 by Neubert from 1982

M400m. Best marks for places
for  4th through 8th were reset. Difference
between 3rd (bronze) and 4th, 0.01 second, was the smallest ever at 400m in
Euro Champ replacing 0.03 by Carlowitz in 1990.

WHT: Best marks for place was
reset for 2nd (75.65 by Lysenko replacing 74.50 by Khanafeyeva in 2006), 3rd
(73.56 by Wlodarczyk replacing Skolimowska in 2006) and 6th (70.77m by
Marghieva replacing 70.59 by Klaas in 2006). 76.38 by Heidler was the longest
throw in Barcelona, replacing 72.62 also by Heidler from 2009. Lysenko became
the third hammer thrower (after Skolimowska and Kuzenkova) to 2nd medal (gold
in 2006, silver in 2010) in WHT at Euro Champ

W400mH:  It was the fastest time in Barcelona,
eclipsing Sally Gunnell‘s time of 53.23 from the 1992 Olympics. Best marks for
place were reset for 5th (54.58 replacing 54.62 by Goossens in 1998), 6th
(54.59 replacing 54.90 by Fiedler in 1986) and 8th (55.51, replacing 55.56 by
Ponomaryova in 1986).

SPECTATORS

40 000, together 140 000.

OTHERS

GERMANY: Fresh European
Champion Linda Stahl was thinking about school duties earlier, but now she will
be selected for Continental Cup early September. But she will change her plans
to be on the start list in Croatia.

ITALY: Libania Grenot qualified
for Continental Cup in the 400
m as before her were 3 Russians and only one athlete per
country can be selected in each event.

AGENTS RANKING

Ricky Simms 4, Rene Auguin 3,
Pavel Voronkov 3, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy 2, Vera Michallek 2, Mikhail Gusev 2,
Aivar Karotamm, Mark Block, Ludmila Olijar, Wilfried Meert, Miguel Mostaza,
Daniel Wessfeldt, Munir Yaras,  Kerstin
Pohlers, Alfons Juck 1 gold medal. Decathlon winner Barras is not having an
agent.