2015 Euro Indoor Saturday Mid-D Results: Lee Emanuel Gets 3000m Silver And A WR Attempt In The Men's 1500 Heats!!!

Full Day's Recap Here: http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/renaud-lavillenie-european-indoor-pole-vault
Full Results: http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/2015/schedules-results/day=2015-03-07/index.html?intcmp=sr-byday

Men's 3000: Turkey's Ali Kaya dominates it in 7:38; Lee Emanuel gets silver for GB in 7:44.

1 Ali Kaya TUR 20 Apr 94 7:38.42 NR PB
2 Lee Emanuel GBR 24 Jan 85 7:44.48 PB
3 Henrik Ingebrigtsen NOR 24 Feb 91 7:45.54 NR PB
4 Jesús España ESP 21 Aug 78 7:47.12 SB
5 Richard Ringer GER 27 Feb 89 7:48.44
6 Adel Mechaal ESP 5 Dec 90 7:49.59
7 Łukasz Parszczyński POL 4 May 85 7:50.11 SB
8 Florian Orth GER 24 Jul 89 7:51.02
9 Philip Hurst GBR 3 Oct 90 7:51.94
10 Yegor Nikolayev RUS 12 Feb 88 7:51.99
11 Florian Carvalho FRA 9 Mar 89 7:57.14
12 Pieter-Jan Hannes BEL 30 Oct 92 7:59.43

Women's 3000: Russia's Yelena Korobkina wins it in 8:47, GB's Laura Muir misses medal by less than a second in 4th.

1 Yelena Korobkina RUS 25 Nov 90 8:47.62
2 Sviatlana Kudzelich BLR 7 May 87 8:48.02 NR PB
3 Maureen Koster NED 3 Jul 92 8:51.64
4 Laura Muir GBR 9 May 93 8:52.44
5 Sandra Eriksson FIN 4 Jun 89 8:54.06 NR PB
6 Sofia Ennaoui POL 30 Aug 95 8:56.77
7 Giulia Viola ITA 24 Apr 91 8:59.04
8 Maruša Mišmaš SLO 24 Oct 94 8:59.51
9 Jennifer Wenth AUT 24 Jul 91 8:59.84 PB
10 Kristiina Mäki CZE 22 Sep 91 9:05.95
11 Charlotta Fougberg SWE 19 Jun 85 9:06.50
12 Emelia Gorecka GBR 29 Jan 94 9:06.79

Men's 1500 Heats: One of the pre-race favorites, Tesfaye Homiyu posted the fastest time winning heat 1 in 3:40.05. According to the IAAF article, he was through 400 in 54.55 and 800 in 1:53.67 (3:33 1500 pace).

Heat 2's pace was even more ridiculous as the other pre-race favorite, IIlham Tanui Ozbilen from Turkey, went through 800 in WR pace of 1:51.23 (3:28.55 1500 pace; WR is 3:31.18 by El G). He tied up and was beat by Chris O'Hare before the line.

Heat 1
1 Homiyu Tesfaye GER 23 Jun 93 3:40.05 Q
2 Artur Ostrowski POL 10 Jul 88 3:40.24 PB Q
3 John Travers IRL 16 Mar 91 3:41.37 PB q
4 Diego Ruíz ESP 5 Feb 82 3:41.48
5 Dmitrijs Jurkēvičs LAT 7 Jan 87 3:42.84 NR PB
6 Staffan Ek SWE 13 Nov 91 3:43.68
7 Jozef Pelikán SVK 29 Jul 84 3:48.57

Heat 2
1 Chris O'Hare GBR 23 Nov 90 3:41.83 Q
2 İlham Tanui Özbilen TUR 5 Mar 90 3:42.23 Q
3 Joao Capistrano M. Bussotti Neves Junior ITA 10 May 93 3:42.82 PB
4 Andreas Bueno DEN 7 Jul 88 3:43.79
5 Jan Friš CZE 19 Dec 95 3:47.16
6 Amine Khadiri CYP 20 Nov 88 3:47.61
7 Krzysztof Żebrowski POL 9 Jul 90 3:49.76

Heat 3
1 Charlie Grice GBR 7 Nov 93 3:48.98 Q
2 Henrik Ingebrigtsen NOR 24 Feb 91 3:49.36 SB Q
3 Yoann Kowal FRA 28 May 87 3:49.99
4 Marc Alcalá ESP 7 Nov 94 3:50.46
5 Szymon Krawczyk POL 29 Dec 88 3:51.72
6 Milan Kocourek CZE 6 Dec 87 3:56.49
7 Ramazan Özdemir TUR 6 Jul 91 3:59.54

Heat 4
1 Jakub Holuša CZE 20 Feb 88 3:46.62 Q
2 Valentin Smirnov RUS 13 Feb 86 3:47.69 Q
3 Tamás Kazi HUN 16 May 85 3:48.08
4 Goran Nava SRB 15 Apr 81 3:48.80
5 Johan Rogestedt SWE 27 Jan 93 3:48.88
6 Danny Mooney IRL 20 Jun 88 3:48.96
7 Filip Ingebrigtsen NOR 20 Apr 93 3:50.15 PB

Women's 1500 Heats: There were none, straight final on Sunday. Sifan Hassan is the favorite. Startlist here: http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/2015/athletics/event/womens-1500m/phase=atw015100/index.html?v=20150306122350&intcmp=[#]-schline-result

Men's 800 Semis: Ireland's big medal hope, Mark English makes it through. NJ-NY Track Club's Declan Murray goes out in semi final 2.

Semifinal 1
1 Guy Learmonth GBR 20 Apr 92 1:50.50 Q
2 Mark English IRL 18 Mar 93 1:50.54 Q
3 Brice Leroy FRA 26 Jun 89 1:50.72
4 Jozef Repčík SVK 3 Aug 86 1:50.76
5 Karol Konieczny POL 5 May 93 1:50.96
6 Matěj Pavlíček CZE 2 Oct 92 1:53.18

Semifinal 2
1 Andreas Almgren SWE 12 Jun 95 1:47.24 Q
2 Thijmen Kupers NED 4 Oct 91 1:47.34 SB Q
3 Kevin López ESP 12 Jun 90 1:47.78
4 Stepan Poistogov RUS 14 Dec 86 1:47.84 SB
5 Declan Murray IRL 4 Jun 91 1:48.09 SB
6 Nick Jensen DEN 17 Jun 91 1:54.04

Semifinal 3
1 Marcin Lewandowski POL 13 Jun 87 1:50.10 Q
2 Robin Schembera GER 1 Oct 88 1:51.07 Q
3 Jan Van Den Broeck BEL 11 Mar 89 1:51.09
4 David Palacio ESP 8 Jun 88 1:52.21
5 Paul Renaudie FRA 2 Apr 90 1:53.14
6 Andreas Roth NOR 29 Apr 93 1:57.56

Women's 800 Semis: One heat fast, one extremely slow. The big names were through except for Jenny Meadows who got in after Russia's Anastasiya Bazdryeva was DQd for a lane violation.

Semifinal 1
1 Selina Büchel SUI 26 Jul 91 2:01.92 Q
2 Anastasiya Bazdyreva RUS 6 Mar 92 2:02.04 PB Q
3 Aníta Hinriksdóttir ISL 13 Jan 96 2:02.31 Q
4 Jenny Meadows GBR 17 Apr 81 2:02.40
5 Anna Silvander SWE 22 Jun 93 2:04.24
6 Ciara Everard IRL 10 Jul 90 2:06.14

Semifinal 2
1 Nataliya Lupu UKR 4 Nov 87 2:08.15 Q
2 Joanna Jóźwik POL 30 Jan 91 2:08.47 Q
3 Yekaterina Poistogova RUS 1 Mar 91 2:08.72 Q
4 Renelle Lamote FRA 26 Dec 93 2:09.06
5 Stina Troest DEN 17 Jan 94 2:10.25
6 Lenka Masná CZE 22 Apr 85 2:10.36