30th FBK Hengelo fields announced, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder

Phillips Idowu, photo by PhotoRun.net

Haile Gebrselassie, 2012 Tokyo Marathon, photo by PhotoRun.net

Wells, Jones, Carruthers, photo by PhotoRun.net

The 2012 FBK Hengelo Meeting, will be held on May 27. This will be the 30th running of the meet. There were some financial challenges for the event in 2012, however, many who cared about the meeting have come to support the event. Phillips Idowu, Haile Gebrselassie, LoLo Jones, Kellie Wells and Danielle Carruthers will all be at the event. On May 26, there will be a shot put held on the streets of Hengelo, a lovely city about two hours from Amsterdam.

The Ethiopian federation will be holding its 10,000 meter trials at the Hengelo meeting.

NAMES
FOR HENGELO

HENGELO
(NED): The jubilee 30th FBK Games of Hengelo (May 27, IAAF World Challenge)
will have as one of the top races the menÂ´s 10 000 m with Haile Gebrselassie
billed as Ethiopian Olympic Trials at the distance. Also running Imane Merga, Sileshi Sihine and
Gebre Gebremariam. Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius is in the 400 m, Churandy
Martina in the 100 m against Mario Forsythe. In the 800 m home stars Bram Som
and Rob Lathouwers will face Kenyan Alfred Kirwa Yego and European Champion
Marcin Lewandowski. Discus throwers Rutger Smith and Erik Cadee will compete
against world leader Zoltan Kovago and former champion Virgilijus Alekna.
European Champion Philips Idowu is the star of the triple jump. In the 100 m
hurdles US stars Danielle Carruthers, Lolo Jones and Kellie Wells will clash
together. Tiffany Townsend and Charonda Williams will run the 200 m with young
talent Jamiel Samuel. 2007 World Champion Janeth Jepkosgei is the 800 m
favorite. Also running former 1500 m world champion Maryam Jamal and Dutch Euro
medalist Yvonne Hak. MenÂ´s shot put will be held on May 26 in the city center
with olympic winner Tomasz Majewski, world medalist Dylan Armstrong and home
Rutger Smith.

Author

Larry Eder

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.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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