…keeping it alive…
Russian Champs : Antonina Krivoshapka, 22, ran 50.33 in heats and 49.29 in semis…
She is the 2009 revelation, European Indoor Champ, and 50.55 PB indoors.
Her progression:
2002 54.35 (age 14)
2003 53.09
2004 53.67
2005 55.63
2006 -
2007 52.32
2008 51.24
2009 49.29 so far but watch out in final or Berlin. This is the one Sanya was not expecting.
This outdoor season, she ran only twice : 50.24 on 1 July, 50.51 on 5 July (unbeaten this year in and outdoor). She is the fastest Russian since Olga Nazarova set the NR (49.11) in 1988!
Yeah, very curious about how she does in Berlin!
Curious to see what she will run tomorrow since the heats and semis were both held today.
Sure, but I expect her to be there anyway (perhaps wrongly, lol) and see her reaction as a medal contender.
I was thinking maybe you made a mistake about Nazarova being Russian recordholder. But then I discovered that Olga Vladykina (Mrs Bryzgina) - 48.27 in 1985 Canberra World Cup for USSR - is actually attributed these days as being from Ukraine.
My humble apology for ever doubting you PJ:)
Yes, i was wondering the same thing.
Krivoshapka Antonina
314 place in World Athletics Rankings от 19.05.2009
Place
Volgograd region
Club
Russian Army
Main event
400m
Trainer
Vladimir Tipaiev
Date of birth
21.07.1987
Persobal Bests
Event
Result
300m
36,38
400m
49,29
Events in:
2009, 2008, 2007, 2005
Name
Event
Stage
Result
23.07.09—26.07.09, Russian Championships — Russia, Cheboksary
400m
sf
49,29/ 1
h4
50,33/ 1
05.07.09, Znamensky Memorial — Russia, Zhukovski
400m
f
50,51/ 1
01.07.09, Moscow Open — Russia, Moscow
400m
f
50,24/ 1
06.03.09—08.03.09, European Indoor Championships — Italy, Torino
400m
f
51,18/ 1
sf2
51,59/ 1
Q
h3
51,56/ 1
Q
4x400m
f
3.29,12/ 1
18.02.09, GE Galan — Sweden, Stockholm
400m
f
51,15/ 1
13.02.09—15.02.09, Russian Indoor Championships — Russia, Moscow
400m
f
50,55/ 1
h
50,56/ 1
01.02.09, Russian Winter — Russia, Moscow
300m
f
36,38/ 1
24.01.09, Governor Cup — Russia, Volgograd
400m
f
52,44/ 1
Not bad for Antonina… 
Women
400m
1 Antonina Krivoshapka RUS 49,71
2 Anastasia Kapachinskaia RUS 49,97
3 Lyudmila Litvinova RUS 50,27
Also:
Pechonkina is Russian Champion
24.07.2009
Yuliya Pechonkina won the women’s 400mH at the Russian Championships in Cheboksary. She clocked 54.86, a Russian season leading.
“I’m not satisfied with my result, but it looks well considering that I did not compete for 2 years. And, I recovered a long time after an operation. I felt more confidently on the track today, but my head ached and I reduced the speed in the end”, said Yuliya.
Anastasiya Ott finished second clocking 56.09 and Yelena Churakova was third - 56.16.
Also, 2nd with 53.54 in World Youth Champs, 2003, Sherbrooke.
Kit Kat,
As always thank you for your valauble input to this thread.
I was looking at your answer last year to your process during the competition phase and I wanted to check what you meant by more emphasis on improving recovery between sets and shortening the time of reps (although not the recoveries btwn reps).
I assume you would be getting the athlete to run the repetitions faster with the same rest but what do you mean by improving recovery between sets.
Thanks again for your time and knowledge.
It’s not an arithmetic progression.
Naturally we are all aiming to run faster, but when we do we sometimes need to adjust the recovy times. So while it might be great to retain the same recovery periods, in practice sometimes the extra speed takes a much bigger toll. As the athletes adapts to the faster speed, then the recoveries may come back down to what they once were. But I think the most important consideration is that as the athlete gets faster s/he is given enough time to recover so as they don’t get injured trying to fire up fatigued muscles.
Thanks for that. I understand now and makes good sense. Thank you.
in the 5x200 if you are walking the recoveries, or standing around do you start the reps from a standing or rolling start.
Easier to roll
Wow Quow! The bronze medallist (“only” 45.02sec) ran almost perfectly even splits for the outgoing 200m and the return trip:
1st 200m in 22.43sec; return 200m in 22.59, differential 0.16sec.
Thankyou Speedman. You got my vote for extra rep points! 
If we can find the rest of the 400m races - including women’s final, any semis etc - that the biomech team studied it would be a great resource to have those posted here as well.
400m Women Final
Round RT t400m t200m Diff. t200-400m t300m t100m t100-200 t200-300m t300-400m
Richards Sanya USA F 0,164 49,00 23,50 2,00 25,50 35,63 11,81 11,69 12,13 13,37
Williams Shericka JAM F 0,194 49,32 23,76 1,80 25,56 36,00 12,07 11,69 12,24 13,32
Krivoshapka Antonina RUS F 0,187 49,71 23,59 2,53 26,12 35,90 12,13 11,46 12,31 13,81
Williams-Mills Novlene JAM F 0,214 49,77 24,00 1,77 25,77 36,18 12,36 11,64 12,18 13,59
Ohuruogu Christine GBR F 0,231 50,21 24,32 1,57 25,89 36,76 12,56 11,76 12,44 13,45
Dunn Debbie USA F 0,275 50,35 23,94 2,47 26,41 36,49 12,19 11,75 12,55 13,86
Kapachinskaya Anastasiya RUS F 0,220 50,53 24,39 1,75 26,14 36,92 12,54 11,85 12,53 13,61
Montsho Amantle BOT F 0,212 50,65 24,47 1,71 26,18 37,05 12,38 12,09 12,58 13,60
Team Sprint/Hurdles: Rolf Graubner, Dr. Ralf Buckwitz, Mirko Landmann, Anja Starke http://www.fgs.uni-halle.de
More event analyses given towards the bottom of the page.
http://berlin.iaaf.org/records/biomechanics/index.html
Enjoy
The following exchange has been copied across from Race Results because it is a topic specifically about the 400m race, its evolution through the tighter tournament format (reduction from 4 to 3 rounds) at World & Olympics and possible implications for coaching/training, kk:
From Robin1:
[b]8th fastest 400m time in the world by year:
2009: 44.78 (as of today)
2008: 44.63
2007: 44:56
2006: 44.71
2005: 44.60
2004: 44.64
2003: 44.75
2002: 44.84
2001: 44.70
2000: 44.66
1999: 44.59[/b]
I can’t see any trend here.
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From Kitkat1:
Interesting though. It suggests the event has not progressed, despite no shortage of quality at the medals end of this spectrum.
More relevant would be figures for the last time needed to enter an Olympic or World Championship 400m final (as distinct from time of the eighth-placed finisher in finals). I suspect often the time of the last guy to qualify (out of the semis) will be faster than the eighth-placed time in the subsequent final.
But the observation is more relevant now since the Tournament structure has changed in recent years, within this decade for certain: World and Olympic Championships have been reduced to three rounds, instead of the traditional four rounds.
In Commonwealth Games, the rounds (not sure about the 2006 Games, sorry) have stayed at four, but since Vancouver Island 1994 finalists have been given a full day’s rest before racing for the medals.
They used to run four rounds over a roughly 28hrs period (across two successive days) with the semis only four hours or so before the final. That’s why the Com Games record set in 1970 at 45.0 lasted 20 years until the Aussie Darren Clark led two Kenyans into the 44s in Auckland.
Clark’s time of 44.60 then lasted only until the next Games in Canada because the Welsh winner may have been better prepared or more talented, but certainly the day’s rest before the final helped him to shave 0.02 off the record which still stands coming into India 2010.
The transformed competition format has created the potential for faster times in the preliminary rounds at all of the above tournaments.
One assumes the high performance managers for every national federation would have the figures to hand.
But the big question is, what are they going to do about it? These stats are all after the fact. How athletes and coaches should prepare to face the challenge remains paramount.
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From Robin1:
[b]Here are the times needed to qualify for each WC final:
'09: 44.97
'07: 44.86
'05: 46.03 (John Steffenson, BTW)
'03: 45.03
'01: 45.10
'99: 45.24
'97: 44.69
'95: 45.47
'93: 45.01
'91: 45.53
'87: 45.21
'93: 45.83
Last three Olympics:
'08: 44.91
'04: 45.27
'00: 45.53[/b]
If anything, there seems to be a trend towards faster times needed for qualification.
Interestingly, the times in the final clearly suffered after the tough semifinals of 2009, 2008 and 2007 (three rounds with two days between semifinals and final), but not in 1997 (four rounds with one day between semifinals and final). I have previously suggested on this forum that the 48h rest between semifinal and final now in place may allow for the onset of DOMS thus limiting performance in the final.
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From Kitkat:
You’ve got my rep pts, thanks Robin1, this is valuable information and we appreciate you putting in the time to research the data. I’m also going to copy it across to the lactate threshhold thread which has de facto been the receptical of all matters 400m.
Yes, many athletes have run slower in the final than the semis and I’m with you on the reasons which appear obvious, but then someone will come along and smash the final as Merritt did in Beijing. The only thing I can think of is that his speed reserve has become more significant than his aerobic power (think huge tempo base)in coping with the constricted format which emphasises speed from the first round. At Beijing we saw quarter-milers running sub-45 in their first-round heats because these now are akin to the quarter-finals of the defunct 4-round tournament format.
I suspect therefore the obvious implication for training/coaching for this event in a tournament situation is that the development or at least emphasis on the speed-power thread not be left until late in the preparation period, but rather emphasised virtually from Day-1 and pursued carefully but continuously.
Obviously how we do that is the trick and my colours are well and truly pinned to the mast of the so-called “concurrent” program model.
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