International Meeting Thessaloniki

International Meeting Thessaloniki - Thessaloníki (GRE)
Sunday, August 03, 2003

Official Result
Men - 100 METRES - Race 1
Wind: +0.4 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Lewis Brian USA 10.24
2 Dunkley Julien JAM 10.35
3 Séggos Vasílios GRE 10.49
4 Paraschópoulos Ioánnis GRE 10.55
5 Terzián Aléxandros GRE 10.55
6 Kóntzos Aléxandros GRE 10.58
7 Rotos Anthimos CYP 10.59
8 Yenovélis Aléxandros GRE 10.61
Papadiás Harálabos GRE DNS

Official Result
Men - 100 METRES - Race 2
Wind: -0.2 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Johnson Joshua J. USA 10.15
2 Emedolu Uchenna NGR 10.17
3 Collins Kim SKN 10.17
4 Pavlakákis Ággelos GRE 10.40
5 Crawford Shawn USA 10.40
6 Clay Ramon USA 10.41
7 Bredwood Llewelyn JAM 10.44
8 Vries Sherwin NAM 10.52
9 Petrídis Aristídis GRE 10.63

International Meeting Thessaloniki - Thessaloníki (GRE)
Sunday, August 03, 2003

Official Result
Women - 100 METRES
Wind: +1 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Kravchenko Anzhela UKR 11.31
2 Bailey Aleen JAM 11.32
3 Nku Mercy NGR 11.32
4 Miller Inger USA 11.46
5 Goulbourne Elva JAM 11.52
6 Padaléon Magdaliní GRE 11.59
7 Kopsiá Athiná GRE 11.72
8 Kafetzí Ioánna GRE 11.84
9 Nerantzidou M. GRE 12.00

International Meeting Thessaloniki - Thessaloníki (GRE)
Sunday, August 03, 2003

Official Result
Women - 200 METRES
Wind: +1.4 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Nku Mercy NGR 22.83
2 Safronnikova Natalya BLR 23.00
3 McDonald Beverly JAM 23.01
4 Miller Inger USA 23.30
5 Pastushenko Olena UKR 23.64
6 Bounta Chariklia GRE 24.14
Kaidantzí Ólga GRE DNS
Mothersill Cydonie CAY DNS

International Meeting Thessaloniki - Thessaloníki (GRE)
Sunday, August 03, 2003

Official Result
Men - 200 METRES
Wind: +0.2 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Johnson Joshua J. USA 20.21
2 Clay Ramon USA 20.48
3 Crawford Shawn USA 20.58
4 Emedolu Uchenna NGR 20.61
5 Sarrís Panayiótis GRE 20.85
6 Vries Sherwin NAM 20.89
Sbokos Thomas GRE DNS
Terzián Aléxandros GRE DNS

International Meeting Thessaloniki - Thessaloníki (GRE)
Sunday, August 03, 2003

Official Result
Women - 400 METRES

Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Washington Demetria USA 51.46
2 Hennagan Monique USA 51.81
3 Smith Ronetta JAM 52.07
4 Goudenoúdi Hrísoula GRE 52.46
5 Shinkins Karen IRL 52.48
6 Hantzí-Neag Hristína GRE 54.84
7 Tsapara Paraskevi GRE 55.00
8 Papadopoulou Eleftheria GRE 55.41

International Meeting Thessaloniki - Thessaloníki (GRE)
Sunday, August 03, 2003

Official Result
Women - 100 METRES HURDLES
Wind: +1.1 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Dixon Vonette JAM 12.90
2 Redoúmi Flóra GRE 12.90
3 Tabaki Christiana GRE 13.06
4 Carruthers Danielle USA 13.08
5 Shekhodanova Natalya RUS 13.11
6 Kómnou Alexándra GRE 13.36
7 Sosnowska Aneta POL 13.39
8 Nesoúdi Evaggelía GRE 13.46

International Meeting Thessaloniki - Thessaloníki (GRE)
Sunday, August 03, 2003

Official Result
Men - 400 METRES - Race 1

Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 McDonald Michael JAM 45.98
2 Tsómos Dimítrios GRE 46.42
3 Doúpis Yeóryios GRE 46.43
4 Ikonomídis Yeóryios GRE 46.74
5 Assariotakis Vaggelis GRE 47.20
6 Demosthenous Evripides CYP 48.28
7 Mokganyetsi Hendrick RSA 48.47
Yiépos Dimítrios GRE DNS

Official Result
Men - 400 METRES - Race 2

Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Young Jerome USA 44.94
2 Brown Christopher BAH 45.16
3 Blackwood Michael JAM 45.21
4 Dimótsios Stilianós GRE 45.78
5 Moncur Avard BAH 45.84
6 Harrison Calvin USA 46.14
7 Batman Daniel AUS 46.18
8 Davis James USA 46.22

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J.J. Johnson sprints to double in Greece
Sunday 3 August 2003
American J.J Johnson’s sprint double was the highlight of the international meeting - IAAF GP II - in Thessaloniki, Greece tonight.

27 year-old Joshua Johnson who was third in the US nationals over 200m this summer strode to an impressive 10.15 (-0.2m/s) and 20.21 (+0.2m/s) sprint double. In the dash, his opposition was more than impressive, as World Cup winner Uchenna Emedolu (10.17) of Nigeria, out-dipped St Kitts’ Commonwealth champion Kim Collins (10.17) for second in a photo-finish.

Former World Indoor 200m champion Shawn Crawford of the USA was fifth in the 100m in 10.40, but took third place around the bend (20.58) to make it an American sweep in the 200m, as Ramon Clay took (20.48) second place behind Johnson.

There was a 44.94 second win in the men’s 400m for USA’s Jerome Young who beat Jamaica’s World Cup winner and Commonwealth champion Michael Blackwood (3rd 45.21). Christopher Brown of the Bahamas was second (45.16). Reigning World champion Avard Moncur of the Bahamas was well back in fifth, 45.84.

However, it was the one lap hurdles which produced perhaps the more significant result as European champion Stephane Diagana, who is one of France’s bets for medals at the forthcoming World Championships in Paris, was soundly beaten into 4th place (49.27) by a Jamaican 1-2-3 finish led home by Kemel Thompson in 48.50. Thompson’s winning run in Zagreb (48.24) on 7 July at the moment makes him the third fastest runner in the world this season.

Diagana’s time was a season’s best following on from his 49.67 clocking on 29 June in Poznan, Poland, but still shows that he is off the fitness needed to make an effective challenge in Paris.

In the infield, Jaroslav Bába equalled his Czech national junior outdoor record of 2.30m when winning the men’s High Jump (he jumped 2.32m indoors in February of this year), and the men’s Shot was dominated by USA’s 2002 Grand Prix Final winner, Adam Nelson with 20.55m.

World Student Games champion Demetria Washington of the USA, who was second at the US nationals clocked 51.46 in the women’s 400m, to beat compatriot Monique Hennagan who was second in 51.81.

The 400m Hurdles saw a Greek record for Faní Halkiá in 56.40, though that only gave her fifth place behind Poland’s Anna Jesien who won with 55.92, while the 100m Hurdles produced a 12.90 second photo-finish between Jamaica’s Vonette Dixon and Flora Redoumi of Greece, with the former getting the judges nod.

Nigeria’s Mercy Nku took the women’s 200m in 22.83. She also finished third in the 100m (11.32) behind Anzhela Kravchenko’s 11.31 win.

World record holder Mihaela Melinte of Romania secured the women’s Hammer with a 68.80m release which beat Poland’s Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska (67.47m).

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