tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22932692644128756302024-03-08T03:20:11.440-08:00the Pearl of the CaribbeanHaile Tuluwamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17051107067196613890noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293269264412875630.post-33603481969676448782013-01-17T04:37:00.000-08:002013-09-09T15:01:35.590-07:002009-12 REVIEW. Men's 400m, 4x400m<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Sanya Richards-Ross anchors the USA 4x400m team to win gold</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">at the 2012 London Olympic Games</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> If we can name the event the United States has
dominated the most in one century of Olympic history, it is arguably the male
400m. However, in the last four years, the biggest track and field powerhouse
has failed to keep its traditional stranglehold at the distance, succesfully
challenged by a number of talented quartermilers, mainly coming from several
countries of the Caribbean area. We have assisted to the rise and fall of
LaShawn Merrit, eventually overcome as number one in the distance for teen
prodigy Kirani James, and also to the historical defeat of the US 4x400m squad
in London Olympic Games, well beaten by the Bahamas. As a result, the 400m is
not anymore a one nation affair but instead has become an open one in which it
is even possible the victory in global championships of athletes coming from
such exotic countries as Grenada or Botswana. And indeed the acclaimed
victories of Kirani James and Amantle Montsho were the first ones in any sport
for their remote homelands at World or Olympic level. On the other hand, in
female category the nations with the greatest depth for many years have been
Russia, United States and Jamaica but often global champions have come from
other disparate countries as it is the case of Amy Mbacké Thiam (Senegal), Ana
Guevara (Mexico), Tonique Williams-Darling (Bahamas) and Christine Ohuruogu
(Great Britain), before Amantle Montsho and Botswana’s biggest day in Daegu. On
the other hand, it was equally notorious in these years the struggle of the
most talented quarter miler of the last decade, USA’s Sanya Richards-Ross to
triumph at last in a global championship, which she eventually accomplished at
the 2009 World Championships in Berlin and then repeated at the 2012 Olympic
Games in London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">The United States' men had suffered some upsets at the event at the World Championships. Notably, the outstanding British generation of Roger Black and Iwan Thomas had challenged them all along the 1990s, with a resounding victory in Tokyo-91 at the 4x400m final. Avard Moncur too won a shocking gold at the individual event in</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><st1:metricconverter productid="2001 in" style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';" w:st="on">2001 in</st1:metricconverter><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Edmonton and besides led the Bahamian team to glory. However, at Olympic level the United States had stamped its authority in every occasion for decades. The last individual who had dared to crush the almighty North Americans had been no less than Alberto Juantorena in Montreal-76 and if we look for another different country dominating in the event we must go back to the 1950s, when the first golden generation of Jamaican track and field of Wint, McKenley and Rhoden was winning everything.</span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> In recent years, we had witnessed a continuation of the trend. The United States had swept the 400m male podium in the last two Olympic Games: in Athens-2004 with Jeremy Wariner, Otis Harris and Derrick Brew and in Beijing-2008 with Lashawn Merrit, Wariner and David Neville. In between they had also achieved this feat at the 2007 World championships in Osaka, again with Wariner, Merritt and 400m hurdles specialist Angelo Taylor.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> In 2009 the United States remained at the top with its two standouts of the last years, Merritt and Wariner, who snatched respectively gold and silver at Berlin Worlds, besides teaming up with hurdlers Angelo Taylor and Kerron Clement for another 4x400m relay victory, ahead of Great Britain and Australia. Yet something was already going wrong: although he was still the second best in the world, Jeremy Wariner had considerably slowed down. Wariner, training under Michael Johnson’s coach Clyde Hart, had won gold medal at 20 years of age at the 2004 Olympic Games, then at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships, becoming the third fastest man ever, at the latter contest (43.45). In 2012 Wariner splitted up wit Hart, a decision which proved wrong for his career. Meanwhile, up-and-coming star LaShawn Merritt, the 2004 World junior champion, was quickly closing the gap between him and the world number one, to set a two-men rivalry in order to rule the 400m event, so Merritt had pushed his compatriot to his outstanding clocking in Osaka. Notwithstanding, at Beijing Olympics there was not rivalry at all: Merritt won the gold medal in a 43.75 PB, one second ahead of the dissapointing defending Olympic champion. In spite of returning back to Hart, Wariner was not back to his past fitness and was again handily beaten by Merritt in Berlin (44.06 to 44.60). In 2010, Wariner seemed in the way to recovery, dominating at the Diamond League and winning big at the Continental Cup. However, the following year he was struggling again and eventually did not even qualify for the Olympic Games. He seemed to have lost all his confidence as a runner. Wariner did not break anymore the 44 second barrier and at 27 years of age his prime had past.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> On the other hand, LaShawn Merritt failed a doping test some months after winning in Berlin so he got a two-year ban. This sanction and Wariner’s weak shape left their country orphan at the event. Of course, as always US Colleges were crowded of talented quartermilers but none of them was able to replace their decorated countrymen at big stage. The United States between the Olympic cycle 2009-2012 had even a greater depth in the event than in the previous four-year period (18 athletes made the top-50, against 15 for 2005-2008). However these 18 athletes only tallied 540 points, compared to 714 for the 15 quartermilers of the previous cycle, mainly because then no less than six of them had ranked among the 11 best, while four years afterwards only Merrit and Wariner accomplished it. <span style="color: #b45f06;">COMPARE NATIONS RANKING </span> in <a href="http://moti-athletics-400-m.blogspot.com.es/p/by-nations.html">2009-2012 </a> and <a href="http://moti-athletics-400-m.blogspot.com.es/p/2005-08-nations.html">2005-2008</a>. Experienced Greg Nixon and Jamaal Torrance failed to reach the final when selected for major contests and collegian quartermilers were unlucky the same. Among those youngsters there were such accomplished athletes as Gil Roberts, Josh Mance, Mike Berry or David Verburg and specially Tony McQuay from Florida. McQuay in 2011 had grabbed silver at the NCAA after Kirani James, before winning at the national championships, and one year later triumphed big at the NCAA and qualified for the Olympics, running the distance in an awesome 44.49 at the trials. However the Florida Gators athlete was too tired after a long campaign in Daegu and simply dissapointing in London Olympics. Another intriguing athlete, Bryshon Nellum, a former teen sensation, had miracoulously recovered for the practise of track and field after being shot coming from a Halloween party in 2009. <a href="http://moti-athletics-400-m.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/bryshon-nellum.html">http://moti-athletics-400-m.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/bryshon-nellum.html</a> Nellum obtained a praiseworthy third place at the national trials to make the Olympic team but did not qualify for London final either. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Battle of the titans at the 400m final in Daegu between Kirani James and Lashawn Merritt<br />Photo: Ian Watson/ Getty Images Asia Pac<br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">http://www.zimbio.com</span></a></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> With the United States in crisis, European quartermilers were not faring much better either. All three finalists from the continent in Berlin, Leslie Djhone of France, David Gillick of Ireland and Michael Bingham of Great Britain picked up injuries in following seasons. On the other hand, Martyn Rooney, the revelation of 2008, was alternating up and downs so quite surprisingly no Briton athlete met the A standard for Daegu Worlds. Nevertheless still two up-and-coming athletes managed to represent very well their country, Belgium, and the European continent at world level during the period: the outstanding twin brothers Jonathan and Kevin Borlée. All four Borlée brothers were coached by their father, a former European medallist at the 200m event. The eldest in the group, Olivia, had grabbed two awesome medals, along with her 4x100m mates at both 2007 Osaka Worlds and 2008 Beijing Olympics. After the retirement of the foremost member of the team, Kim Gevaert, it was the turn of the boys in the family to shine internationally. Jonathan and Kevin, aged 20, participated in Beijing both individually and as members of the 4x400m squad, which had qualified for the Games, after breaking a 27-year-old national record. The 4x400m team ended up in a noteworthy fifth place, in 2:59.37, which remains as the current Belgian best.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> After the Olympics, both twin brothers moved to the USA for a year in Florida State University, with Jonathan winning the NCAA title. By 2010 both twin brothers had steadily rose to the best quartermilers in Europe. Jonathan had broken the national record at the semi-finals but it was Kevin who won the European Championships in Barcelona. Then both brothers would show their class, making the final in Daegu Worlds and also in London Olympics, with Kevin besides winning a impressive bronze medal at the former championship. Much was expected also of the 4x400m relay. At the 2010 indoor World championships, Belgium won a collective silver medal but, after Cédric Van Branteghem retirement, the national relay did not make the expected progression, because they could not find other members for the team worth of Jonathan and Kevin. It was instead Russia, which had no big stars but did have quite solid runners as Trenikhin, Dyldin or Krasnov, the most accomplished team in the continent with victories in Barcelona, two European Team championships and doing well too in Daegu and Beijing. Yet, in the absence of the best Russian specialists at the 2012 European championships in Helsinki, Belgium enjoyed its chance to win the gold medal, in the same way Czech rising star Pavel Maslak did in the individual contest, with none of the Borlée brothers entered. On the other hand, with Djhone injured, the French 4x400m team could not qualify for the Olympic Games, while a former powerhouse as Poland relay was never a factor in these years, neither among the men nor among the women. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">If the United States and Europe had lowered their standards at the 400m event, all along the Caribbean Sea plenty of talented quartermilers had blossomed in many different countries, although most of them growing as athletes in a USA college. The 2006 World junior champion, Rennie Quow of Trinidad and Tobago was the most promising athlete in the area by 2009, the year he snatched the bronze medal at the World Championships in Berlin and ran the distance in a powerful 44.53. Unfortunately, injuries stopped his progression but by then other wonderful youngsters as Lalonde Gordon, Deon Lendore or Jehue Gordon at the 400m hurdles had taken the relay. Even with a deepest field, the Bahamas had a well balanced team of quartermilers with experienced athletes as Chris Brown, Andrae Williams and Micheal Matthiew and strong newcomers as Ramon Miller and Demetrius Pinder. At 31 years of age, Brown still had the power to win the 2010 World indoor championships, ahead of Cuban William Collazo. In Jamaica, two athletes well in his twenties as Jermaine Gonzales and Ricardo Chambers made a big breakthrough in 2010 with huge PBs of 44.40 and 44.54 respectively, although both would also have troubles with injuries in following years. Another consistent athlete in the area was Tabarie Henry from US Virgin Islands, a world finalist in both Berlin and Daegu. Quite as good, Nery Brenes from Costa Rica won three area championships in those years, including the Pan American Games and he was even able to win the gold medal at the 2012 World indoors, before an injury left him out of the Olympic Games. Precisely at the PanAms in Guadalajara, Brenes had narrowly beaten a 17-year-old Dominican whose name was Luguelín Santos. That youngster seemed to be the next national star, the natural relay to Félix Sánchez, although the hurdler would prove at the Olympic year he was not done yet. Finally from the small country of Grenada there were Rondell Bartholomew and the men who had created the biggest expectations: Kirani James. <a href="http://moti-athletics-200-w.blogspot.com.es/2011/08/who-is-in-college-now.html">http://moti-athletics-200-w.blogspot.com.es/2011/08/who-is-in-college-now.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></o:p> </span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Luguelín Santos achieves the silver medal for the Dominican Republic at the 400m London Olympic final,<br />edging Bahamians Chris Brown and Demetrius Pinder<br />Photo: Roger Sedres/ Gallo Images<br /><a href="http://imagesa.photoshelter.com/image/I0000AwQpdx9Lvds"><span style="color: #38761d;">http://imagesa.photoshelter.com/image/I0000AwQpdx9Lvds</span></a></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">If Usain Bolt was already doing marvellous things on the track at a very young age, Kirani’s feats as a precocious running prodigy were even greater. Inspired by former world indoor champion Alleyne Francicque, he achieved the fastest time ever for a 14 and 15 year old at the 400m distance. In 2007 Kirani won the first of many titles at Carifta Games and the same year grabbed a silver medal at the World Youths. The following year he also won the silver at the world junior championship, being 15, thus facing athletes up to 4 years older. Eventually, James would snatch a global title in 2009 at the World Youth Championships in Bressanone, running the 400m distance in 45.24. Actually it would be two titles because he also triumphed at the 200m. A well-expected World junior champion in 2010, he chose Alabama University for his collegiate career to be coached by Harvey Glance. With Alabama, Kirani James won back-to-back NCAA outdoor titles in his freshman and sophomore years, also setting a new World junior best indoors in 2011, recording 44.80 to win SEC. After the NCAA final in June, Kirani only stepped on the track once before Worlds to make his debut at the Diamond League in London. However, he won big in 44.61. At 18, James was going to Daegu, leading the world lists, but was he ready to face the best?</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> Incidentally, Grenada, a country of 104.000 inhabitants, had precisely the two best ranked athletes in the world because Rondell Bartholomew had completed the distance in 44.65, and both James and Bartholomew qualified for the final. Notwithstanding, a reappeared LaShawn Merritt who had got a reduction of his penalty to defend his title, had won his heat in a 44.35 new world lead. Yet James did not fear anybody. He knew he was as strong finisher as Merritt so he entered the homestretch with determination and came from behind to pip <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;">the Olympic titleholder at the line and thus become the youngest 400m world champion ever. </span>Eventually, 44.60 was enough to win. The Borlée brothers accomplished an excellent third (Kevin) and fifth (Jonathan) positions, with Jermaine Gonzales splitting the duo. Nevertheless, Merritt saved narrowly the gold at the 4x400m relay for the USA, against the huge challenge of South Africa and Jamaica. An astonishing second leg of Ofentse Mogawane and Jermaine Gonzales led their respective teams brilliantly to the medals. Also in the heats and at the individual 400m event, South Africa had entered double amputee Oscar Pistorius who would run at the Olympic Games as well.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> The African team had prepared brilliantly its male relays during the year so the 4x100 relay also achieved an impressive victory at the World University Games. A second African nation, Kenya, made also the final. No less than Olympic champions in Munich-72 and silver medallists four years before in Mexico, in a squad featuring David Rudisha’s father, Kenya had achieved for many years impressive results at the 4x400m and at the single event as well, with champions like Samson Kitur. However, in the last two decades, sprints had been neglected in the country. For the 2010 African Championships held in Nairobi, Kenya made an effort to excel not only in distance running and the result was the victory at the 4x400m relay, ahead of traditional powerhouses in the distance as Botswana and Nigeria. South Africa and Kenya would be again the African representatives in London but with less fortune.</span><br />
<span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">It was also noteworthy that for the second time in a row at Worlds, The Bahamas, one of the biggest favourites in the contest, failed to make the final in Daegu. They had reserved their best men Brown and Pinder for the final, taking for granted they would going to qualify but their replacements were unable to do it. They lost a big opportunity in a race which was won by the USA in only 2:59.31, the worst clocking in the event since the USSR won the inaugural edition of the Championships back in 1983. Interestingly, altitude or not altitude, the 4x400m level at worlds was very similar to what was achieved at the Pan American Games two months later by three squads absent in Daegu: Cuba, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, which brilliantly increased to six the number of Caribbean teams for the Olympics. <a href="http://moti-athletics-4x4-m.blogspot.fr/2011/11/with-8-months-to-go-4x400-squads-for.html">http://moti-athletics-4x4-m.blogspot.fr/2011/11/with-8-months-to-go-4x400-squads-for.html</a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span> The Bahamas would not let escape one more time another gold medal chance in London, but before the single 400m event had to be contested. Unfortunately, the defending champion La Shawn Merrit pulled out of his heat with a hamstring injury. Five Caribbean athletes made the final: World champion and favourite Kirani James, two Bahamians (Chris Brown and Demetrius Pinder), Lalonde Gordon from Trinidad and newly minted world junior champion Dominican Luguelín Santos, who had run the distance in 44.45 during the season. Also the bronze medallist at the World Juniors in Barcelona, Steve Solomon of Australia had made the cut and so did Belgian twin brothers Jonathan and Kevin Borlée. No US quatermiler had qualified for the decisive race. Among the eight finalists only the veteran Chris Brown had more than 24 years of age. Without Merritt, Kirani James won much more easily than the year before in Daegu, becoming the first no-US runner under the 44 seconds barrier (43.96). Luguelín Santos confirmed his huge progression winning the silver medal in 44.46 and Lalonde Gordon was a shocking bronze medallist in 44.52. He had improved a whole second in the distance during the 2012 season. On the other hand, Chris Brown ended up fourth for the fourth time in a global championship, followed by Kevin and Jonathan Borlée. It was a surprise none of the brothers got a medal in London, in a year they were extremely well prepared and both had broken the national record. <br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">The Bahamas entered its best quartet (Brown, Pinder, Matthiew and Miller) in the semi-final and this time there was no mistake. Without their leader LaShawn Merritt, the United States were eventually defeated in the final as Bahamian anchor Ramon Miller overcame Angelo Taylor at the homestretch to win gold in a new national record (2:56.72). This Olympic victory came 12 years after the female 4x100 Bahamian gold medal in Sidney and 11 after the triumph at the World Championship in Edmonton of another national 4x400m male squad, which already featured the perennial Chris Brown. Trinidad and Tobago, with single bronze medallist Lalonde Gordon, added another bronze to the one achieved at the 4x100m relay, beating in the process all three best European squads: Great Britain, Russia and Belgium. Venezuela, South Africa and Cuba completed the final.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kirani James</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">GRN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">United States</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">USA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Luguelín Santos</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">DOM</span></div>
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</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">2</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bahamas</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">BAH</span></div>
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<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">3</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kevin Borlée</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">BEL</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">3</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Great Britain</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl33" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">GBR</span></div>
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<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">4</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Chris Brown</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">BAH</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">4</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Belgium</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">BEL</span></div>
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<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">5</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jonathan Borlée</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">BEL</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">5</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Russia</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">RUS</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">6</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jeremy Wariner</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">USA</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">6</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Trinidad & Tobago</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">TRI</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">7</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">LaShawn Merritt</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">USA</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">7</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jamaica</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">JAM</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">8</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jermaine Gonzales</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">JAM</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">8</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">South Africa</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">RSA</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">9</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lalonde Gordon</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">TRI</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">9</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Australia</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">AUS</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">10</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tabarie Henry</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">ISV</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">10</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cuba</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">CUB</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">11</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Demetrius Pinder</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">BAH</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">11</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Germany</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">GER</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">12</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tony McQuay</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">USA</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">12</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Venezuela</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">VEN</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">13</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nery Brenes</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">CRC</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">13</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Poland</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">POL</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">14</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rennie Quow</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">TRI</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">14</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kenya</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">KEN</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">15</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Angelo Taylor</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">USA</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">15</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dominican Rep</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">DOM</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">16</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rondell Bartholomew</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">GRN</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">16</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Japan</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">JPN</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr height="24" style="height: 18pt;"><td class="xl30" height="24" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext; height: 18pt; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">17</span></div>
</td><td class="xl34" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Leslie Djhone</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl30" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">FRA</span></div>
</td><td class="xl31" style="border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext; text-align: right;" x:num=""><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">17</span></div>
</td><td class="xl35" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">France</span></strong></div>
</td><td class="xl32" style="background-color: #ff9900; border: 0px windowtext;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">FRA</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">LaShawn Merritt anchors the 4x400 US team to gold in Daegu</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 16px;"> After the brilliant performances achieved by Cuban, Dominican and Venezuelan teams, all of them under 3:01.00 at the recent Pan American Games, the 16 squads which are going to compete next year at the 4x400 relay event for London Olympic Games are almost decided, with still 8 months and a half to go. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> The 2010 season was a quite remarkable one. Firstly, it was one of the best in history from the statistical point of view, with no less than 15 nations dipping under 3:02.00. (1) Secondly, the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">United States</place></country-region>, overwhelming dominator of the event for decades, struggled to defend their title. <country-region w:st="on">Jamaica</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">South Africa</place></country-region> were keeping the lead until the final homestretch, where the reappeared <personname productid="La Shawn Merritt" w:st="on"><personname productid="La Shawn" w:st="on">LaShawn</personname> Merritt</personname>, in a class of his own, could fix the weak performance of some of his teammates, overcoming Leford Green and L.J. Van Zyl. (1) As an indication, The US 4x400 relay has not been beaten on the track in a World Championship (not counting disqualifications, because of Antonio Pettigrew’s drug use confession, years afterwards) since Tokyo’s 1991 edition, were they lost narrowly to Great Britain. At the Olympics, the streak dates back to <metricconverter productid="1972 in" w:st="on">1972 in</metricconverter> Munich, where Kenya accomplished a sensational victory. Equally outstanding is their stranglehold at the single event, with two straight clean sweeps of the medals at the last two Olympics Games. The last man who could defeat the <country-region w:st="on">United States</country-region> quarter milers was Cuban prodigy Alberto Juantorena, as far as <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Montreal</place></city> 1976. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> Notwithstanding, this year we have assisted to the rising to stardom of Grenadian Kirani James, new world champion at 19, and we have also witnessed how the United States have failed to produce a convincing squad for Daegu. Jeremy Wariner has not been the same since Merritt had the better of him at Beijing Olympics and lost his number one status. Then the revelation of the year Tony McQuay, who had sensationally won the national trials, was far from his best fitness, after a long NCAA season. Finally, Greg Nixon and Jamaal Torrance were also unable to advance to the finals. Only, the defending champion, LaShawn Merritt, who had been back to competition only one month before the worlds after his doping hiatus, could save the honour of his country. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">After seeing their weak performance at the single <metricconverter productid="400 metres" w:st="on">400 metres</metricconverter>, the head coach dropped McQuay and Torrance for the relay final, having to ask the help of experienced intermediate hurdlers Bershawn Jackson and Angelo Taylor, who besides had not done better than 6<sup>th</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup> at their specialist event. Also was dropped Mike Berry, who had run <metricconverter productid="44.0 in" w:st="on">44.0 in</metricconverter> his semi-final leg; a decision which was proved wrong. Still, the <country-region w:st="on">USA</country-region> struck narrowly the gold medal, but they did it scoring the worst clocking for a winning team since the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">USSR</place></country-region> won the inaugural edition of the championships in 1983. Their 2:59.31 would had earned them just a 5<sup>th</sup> place at last Olympic Games and was just 12 hundredths of a second better than the mark Cuba (absent in Daegu) achieved at the Pan Ams. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span lang="EN-GB">Specially one team was supposed to have the talent to enjoy this opportunity to produce a major upset: the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bahamas</place></country-region>. Yet, the 2001 world champions and current Olympic silver medallists, failed for the second time in a row in reaching a major final. They had been disqualified in Berlin and, this time around in Daegu, the team who had won gold in Mayagüez at the Central American Championships, was good enough just for 4<sup>th</sup> in their heat. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Bahamas</place></country-region>’ best two <metricconverter productid="400 meter" w:st="on">400 meter</metricconverter> specialists of the moment, Chris Brown and Demetrius Pinder, had been reserved, taking for granted they would qualify for the final. Yet the competition had a deepest field than expected and, otherwise, veteran Avard Moncur, Andrae and Latoy Williams had not run under 46 seconds in the whole season. Hopefully, they will not repeat the same wrong in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">London</city></place>, where they should be a strong contender for the medals. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Two other squads which disappointed in Daegu were the <country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Australia</place></country-region>, the respective silver and bronze medallists at the precedent edition. The latter team did not even reach the final and the former just finished in a poor 7<sup>th</sup> place. Yet their members were far from their <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Berlin</place></state> fitness. For the Aussies, 18-year-old Steven Solomon were the big news, winning the national championships in a remarkable 45.58, but Tristan Thomas was just back from injury and Sean Wroe and Ben Offereins had a week season. For the British, as strange as it could sound in a country with so many accomplished 400 runners (Rooney, Bingham, Steel, Buck, Tobin, Strachan, Lennon-Ford, Levine, Clarke…) nobody was able of achieving the A standard for Daegu. Martyn Rooney recognised he had wrongly focused too much his training in speed; the European silver medallist Michael Bingham had a year to forget and so on. </span> </span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Oscar Pistorius passes the baton to Ofentse Mogawane at the 4x400 heats</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">in Daegu World Championships<br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">On the other hand, the most grateful surprise of the championships was </span><place style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";" w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">South Africa</country-region></place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">, a team which rarely had went through the heats before. This time they must devoted in preparing consciously their relay for the upcoming challenges, because their sprinters of the 4x100 won at the Universiade and their quarter milers ended the summer with a stunning silver medal in Daegu. </span><place style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";" w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">South Africa</country-region></place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> had traditionally been a country of excellent hurdlers but now they have a bunch of awesome specialists at the dash event too: Louis Van Zyl (44.86 this year), Oscar Pistorius (45.07), Lebogang Moen (45.47), Ofentse Mogawane (45.59), Willie de Beer (45.68)…</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> Nevertheless, there was a huge controversy, when double amputee Oscar Pistorius was left out of the final, despite reaching the semi-finals at the single event and being the man with the second best mark of the team for the season. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">South Africa</place></country-region>’s delegate stated it was due to technical reasons and Van Zyl said, more precisely, he had done the slowest split of the team in the heats, what was proved not true. (3) Pistorius, who had not been named either for the team who achieved the standard for Daegu, seems an embarrassing case for his country. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Jamaica</span></place></country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> was back to the medals in a world championship, thanks to the stunning second leg ran by Jermaine Gonzales, a 4<sup>th</sup> placer some days before at the single event, despite fighting injuries throughout the season. The Caribbean country can count now also with solid runners as Central American hurdler titleholder Leford Green and rising star national champion Riker Hylton. With the addition of the now injured Ricardo Chambers (44.54 PB last year) they will be fighting for a medal again in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">London</city></place>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">This year 16 out of 19 quarter milers who have dipped under 45 seconds are American, 10 of them from Caribbean countries, which keep being the powerhouse in the event. Besides <country-region w:st="on">Jamaica</country-region> and the <country-region w:st="on">Bahamas</country-region>, four other nations in the Area are likely to be represented in <city w:st="on">London</city>: <country-region w:st="on">Trinidad and Tobago</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Cuba</country-region>, <country-region w:st="on">Dominican Republic</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Venezuela</place></country-region>. The former country achieved their seasonal best at the Central American Championships, where they finished in runner-up position. <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Berlin</place></state> bronze medallist Rennie Quow had a difficult year and so did Jehue Gordon, the other former World junior champion. With both fitted for the Olympics, and two other young runners as Lalonde Gordon and Zwede Hewitt (both 45.51 this season), they have the potential to challenge the best. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Cuba's 4x400 relay leads Venezuela at 2011 Pan American Games</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Cuba</span></country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">, <country-region w:st="on">Dominican Republic</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on">Venezuela</country-region> probably booked their <city w:st="on">London</city> ticket at last Pan American Games, helped by the altitude of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Guadalajara</place></city>. <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Cuba</place></country-region>’s outstanding performance under 3 minutes was built up with the contribution of William Collazo, one of the most consistent 400 runners in the region, Noel Ruiz and hurdler Omar Cisneros, who had dipped under 48 seconds for the first time in his career some days before. London Games will probably be the last ones for living legend Félix Sánchez and he will try to grab a last medal for his outstanding curriculum. Now they can add for the Dominican squad, to the classic members Arismendy Peguero and Yoel Tapia, youth Olympic champion Luguelín Santos, who has already improved the national senior record (44.71), when he finished a surprising second in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Guadalajara</place></city>, after Nery Brenes. Finally Venezuelan’s is the team with the biggest progression in the <place w:st="on">Caribbean</place> region. Their most accomplished athlete is Omar Longart, an Area champion in youth and junior categories. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Another country which 4x400 relay team has had a huge progression in recent years is <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Kenya</country-region></place>. While distance running has grown in the country so much, other specialties where <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Kenya</place></country-region> used to excel in the past, as sprint events, had been neglected. The East African nation had struck a stunning silver medal at the 4x400 event at the Olympic Games held in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Mexico</place></country-region> in <metricconverter productid="1968, in" w:st="on">1968, in</metricconverter> a team where Daniel Rudisha, the father of the current <metricconverter productid="800 metres" w:st="on">800 metres</metricconverter> world champion, was featuring. Then they improved to gold four years afterwards. The squad kept a high level in the 80s and early 90s: Samson Kitur medalled at both Olympic Games (1992) and World championships (1993). In the latter occasion, a second place in the relay was also achieved, besides three finalists at the single event. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Kenya</span></place></country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">’s officials pointed out they wanted to win medals in something more than distance running at the 2010 African championships held at home, and put the means for it. As consequence a visible improvement in short and long sprints was attained and even lately, the nation has had a javelin throw champion at last African Games in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Maputo</place></city>. The 4x400 squad has dominated easily in both <city w:st="on">Nairobi</city> and <city w:st="on">Maputo</city> contests, has achieved a bronze medal at Delhi Commonwealth Games, and ultimately has qualified, many years afterwards, for a World championship final in Daegu, leaving out favourites Bahamas, Poland and Australia. No big individualities are in the team currently but Anderson Mutegi, Vincent Kosgei, Vincent Mumo and Mark Mutai are all of them quite solid runners, and who knows if the great David Rudisha is going to join them for London. </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">In the Old Continent, the most accomplished squads right now are <country-region w:st="on">Russia</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Belgium</place></country-region>. The latter has the astonishing Borlée brothers, the only athletes who dare to challenge currently the American supremacy at the <metricconverter productid="400 metres" w:st="on">400 metres</metricconverter> discipline. At team level <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Belgium</place></country-region> has been in every major final since Beijing Olympics, medalling at last European and World indoor championships. However, since Van Branteghem retired, the team lacks two other members comparable to the two leaders in order to be able of targetting a big victory. Ghislain, Duerinck or Gillet can not hold the game well enough as was evident in Daegu. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">On the other hand, Russia do not have any world beater but count with many consistent runners for the relay as Alekseyev, Trenikhin, Krasnov or Dyldin, so they could beat Belgium and Great Britain in Barcelona and carried the last two European team championship gold medals too. <country-region w:st="on">Poland</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Germany</place></country-region> are two other squads who do not have any man under 45 seconds (their best this year are Marciniszyn with 45.27 and Schneider with 45.56 respectively) but know how to handle a relay when it matters most. Both of them will be in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">London</place></city> aiming for a place in the final. Finally <country-region w:st="on">France</country-region> was impressive at last European indoors held at <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Paris</place></city>, which they won, but without their main star Leslie Djhone, injured for the summer season, their potential has diminished considerably.</span></div> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Belgian, Kenyan and Russian teams, anchored by Kevin Borlée, Mark Mutai and Denis Alekseyev respectively, qualify for the 4x400 relay final at Daegu World Championships</span><br />
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</tbody></table> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Japan is the nation which currently holds the 16<sup>th</sup> and last qualifying spot in the aggregate of its best two times of 2011. The Asian champion places no less than 11 athletes into the yearly lists top-100 at the 400 hurdles but only two, Yuzo Kanemaru (27<sup>th</sup>) and Hideyuki Hirose (91<sup>st</sup>) at the dash event. Their average time in the aggregate for <city w:st="on">London</city> is 3:03.68, but <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Australia</country-region></place>, not in the 16<sup>th</sup> best list, owns a 3:01.56 from Daegu and is likely to improve on the Japanese clocking next year. A further progression is also expected from <country-region w:st="on">France</country-region>, so right now the time to beat might be the 3:02.75 of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Venezuela</place></country-region>. For Beijing Olympics the last qualifying team had been <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">South Africa</place></country-region> with an average of 3:04.12 for its aggregate time. So we can see how the event has risen up its standards.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> Not many squads have the potential to aim for this 3:02.75 average time and there are not many occasions to achieve it: mainly Penn Relays, Helsinki European Championships, Benin African Championships and the three Asian Grand Prix meetings. Saudi Arabia won in 2010 the Asian Games in a 3:02.30 national record but this season they are really far from it. In Europe, the only other team who has run under 3:04 this year is Turkey. Besides <country-region w:st="on">Kenya</country-region>, two other African nations, <country-region w:st="on">Nigeria</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Botswana</place></country-region> have been traditionally present at major championships, the former even achieving medals. They have not done better than 3:04+ marks in 2011 but are going to try hard next year, as Botswana did in 2008, when they even travelled to the Asian Grand Prix in Hanoi, the last qualifying meeting for Beijing. In <country-region w:st="on">America</country-region>, Puerto Rico and specially <country-region w:st="on">Grenada</country-region> have some chances of making the trip to <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">London</place></city>. There are not big championships in the area next year but Kirani James and Rondell Bartholomew’s country can be invited to the Penn Relays as they were in 2011, but they need two other world class runners to achieve twice this highly challenging 3:02.75. Anyway, it would be a great show to see the two Grenadian aces competing in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">London</place></city> also at the 4x400 meter relay. </span><br />
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<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td class="xl24" height="22" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">1</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">United States</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0696759259259258E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:58,82</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0753472222222224E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,31</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D3+F3" x:num="4.1450231481481477E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">5:58,13</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D3:F3)" x:num="2.0725115740740738E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,06</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">South Africa</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0741898148148147E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,21</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0818287037037038E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,87</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D4+F4" x:num="4.156018518518519E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">5:59,08</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D4:F4)" x:num="2.0780092592592595E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,54</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Jamaica</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0732638888888888E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,13</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0844907407407405E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,10</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D5+F5" x:num="4.1577546296296293E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">5:59,23</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D5:F5)" x:num="2.0788773148148147E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,61</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">4</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Russia</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0858796296296298E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,22</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0927083333333331E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,81</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D6+F6" x:num="4.1785879629629629E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:01,03</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D6:F6)" x:num="2.0892939814814815E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,51</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">5</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Belgium</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0880787037037035E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,41</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.091550925925926E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,71</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D7+F7" x:num="4.1796296296296295E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:01,12</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D7:F7)" x:num="2.0898148148148147E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,56</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Great Britain</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0877314814814816E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,38</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0967592592592596E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,16</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D8+F8" x:num="4.1844907407407412E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:01,54</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D8:F8)" x:num="2.0922453703703706E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,77</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">7</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Germany</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0912037037037036E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,68</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0991898148148146E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,37</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D9+F9" x:num="4.1903935185185186E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:02,05</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D9:F9)" x:num="2.0951967592592593E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,03</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">8</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Kenya</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0945601851851854E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,97</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0966435185185185E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,15</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D10+F10" x:num="4.1912037037037039E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:02,12</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D10:F10)" x:num="2.095601851851852E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,06</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">9</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Bahamas</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0987268518518521E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,33</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1011574074074071E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,54</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D11+F11" x:num="4.1998842592592591E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:02,87</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D11:F11)" x:num="2.0999421296296296E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,44</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">10</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Cuba</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0767361111111112E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">2:59,43</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1334490740740741E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,33</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D12+F12" x:num="4.2101851851851849E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:03,76</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D12:F12)" x:num="2.1050925925925924E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,88</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">11</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Trinidad and Tobago</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1024305555555557E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,65</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1119212962962962E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:02,47</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D13+F13" x:num="4.2143518518518519E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:04,12</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D13:F13)" x:num="2.107175925925926E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:02,06</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">12</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Dominican Republic</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0884259259259259E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,44</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1307870370370369E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,10</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D14+F14" x:num="4.2192129629629628E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:04,54</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D14:F14)" x:num="2.1096064814814814E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:02,27</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">13</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Poland</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1046296296296295E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:01,84</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1252314814814814E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:03,62</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D15+F15" x:num="4.2298611111111113E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:05,46</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D15:F15)" x:num="2.1149305555555557E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:02,73</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">14</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Venezuela</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.0928240740740738E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:00,82</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1373842592592594E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,67</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D16+F16" x:num="4.2302083333333332E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:05,49</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D16:F16)" x:num="2.1151041666666666E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:02,75</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">15</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">France</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1253472222222225E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:03,63</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1259259259259256E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:03,68</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D17+F17" x:num="4.2512731481481481E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:07,31</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D17:F17)" x:num="2.1256365740740741E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:03,65</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">16</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Japan</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1138888888888887E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:02,64</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.137962962962963E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,72</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D18+F18" x:num="4.2518518518518521E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:07,36</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D18:F18)" x:num="2.1259259259259261E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:03,68</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td class="xl24" height="22" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td class="xl24" height="22" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">17</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Grenada</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1327546296296298E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,27</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1376157407407407E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,69</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D21+F21" x:num="4.2703703703703706E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:08,96</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D21:F21)" x:num="2.1351851851851853E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,48</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">18</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Turkey</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1287037037037034E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:03,92</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1449074074074074E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:05,32</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D22+F22" x:num="4.2736111111111108E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:09,24</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D22:F22)" x:num="2.1368055555555554E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,62</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">19</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Nigeria</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1410879629629631E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,99</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1442129629629628E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:05,26</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D23+F23" x:num="4.2853009259259259E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:10,25</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D23:F23)" x:num="2.142650462962963E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:05,12</span></td></tr>
<tr height="22" style="height: 16.5pt;"><td align="right" class="xl26" height="22" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; height: 16.5pt;" x:num=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">20</span></td><td class="xl26" style="background-color: #cc99ff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">Botswana</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1341435185185187E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:04,39</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl27" style="background-color: #ffff99; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:num="2.1518518518518518E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:05,92</span></td><td class="xl28" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=D24+F24" x:num="4.2859953703703706E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">6:10,31</span></td><td class="xl24" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></td><td align="right" class="xl29" style="background-color: #99ccff; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0;" x:fmla="=AVERAGE(D24:F24)" x:num="2.1429976851851853E-3"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">3:05,15</span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;">(1) <a href="http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/listhtm.php?Season=2011&top=all&All=1&Ind=0" style="text-align: left;">http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/listhtm.php?Season=2011&top=all&All=1&Ind=0</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(2) <a href="http://daegu2011.iaaf.org/NewsEventReportsListDetail.aspx?id=62094">http://daegu2011.iaaf.org/NewsEventReportsListDetail.aspx?id=62094</a><br />
(3) <a href="http://www.letsrun.com/2011/day7worlds-0902.php">http://www.letsrun.com/2011/day7worlds-0902.php</a><br />
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</div></div></div>Haile Tuluwamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17051107067196613890noreply@blogger.com0