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World's top athletes going for diamonds in Swedish meet
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-26 09:31
Before going for gold at the world championships next week, Olympic champions
Justin Gatlin, Yelena Isinbayeva, Jeremy Wariner and others will be trying to
win a diamond.
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| Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva poses in front of a
scoreboard after setting a new women's pole vault world record at the IAAF
Super Grand Prix athletics meeting in Madrid, July 16, 2005.
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| Each meet record at Tuesday's DN Galan is worth a 1-carat diamond valued at
$US10,000 (euro8,300). Isinbayeva, who broke the women's pole vault record for
the 17th time in her career last Friday in London, seems the best shot.
The meet record of 4.78 meters was set in 2002 by Svetlana Feofanova, a
Russian compatriot of Isinbayeva's who was not competing on Tuesday. Isinbayeva
has broken the world record eight times in her last 10 meets, including 5 meters
last week.
"I think it's possible to jump higher than 4.78 here and I'll try my best to
do it," said Isinbayeva.
The last two Olympic champions, Americans Nick Hysong and Tim Mack, are
entered in the men's pole vault. The stadium record is 5.95, set in 1989 by
Rodion Gataullin of the former Soviet Union.
Jamaica's Asafa Powell, the world 100-meter world record-holder, pulled out
after injuring himself in London but five of the eight entrants have gone under
10 seconds _ with Gatlin the fastest at 9.85.
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