Ostrava Recap: Usain Bolt Wins in 9.98; Breakout Runs from Young 1500 Runners Filip Sasinek (3:36.32) & Konstanze Klosterhalfen (4:06.91)
By LetsRun.com
May 20, 2016
The 2016 Ostrava Golden Spike meet is in the books and it saw Usain Bolt extend his win streak to 19 by taking the 100 in 9.98 seconds and a couple of breakout performances by young Europeans in the 1500. We recap the main events briefly below with results (Full Results here: Ostrava Full Results).
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Men’s 100: Usain Bolt Wins Easily
Usain Bolt is two for two in 2016 — and 19 for his last 19 dating back to 2013 — after winning the 100 meters in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Friday in 9.98 seconds into a slight headwind. The time marks a .07 improvement on Bolt’s season opener in the Cayman Islands last Saturday and ties him for seventh on the 2016 world list (Qatar’s Femi Ogunode is the world leader at 9.91).
9.98 for Bolt
Bolt, who visited doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt in Germany prior to the meet to receive treatment on his hamstring, looked better tonight than he did last weekend, getting a decent start and running unchallenged over the final 50 meters. However Bolt, who was hoping for a time in the 9.80’s if everything went according to plan, did not appear happy when he saw his time pop up on the scoreboard.
100 Metres - Men Wind: -0.4 m/s
1 Bolt , Usain JAM 9.98
2 Gittens , Ramon BAR 10.21
3 Taftian , Hassan IRI 10.25
4 Lehata , Mosito LES 10.36
5 Koffi , Hua Wilfried CIV 10.38
6 Rogers , Jason SKN 10.41
7 Griffith , Adrian BAH 10.43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GjVoGZ41XwE
Quick Take: Business as usual for Usain Bolt, though he wasn’t pleased
Like his win in the Cayman Islands, this was a fairly ho-hum performance from Bolt. He hasn’t raced any of the big dogs in the 100 this year and likely won’t until the June, where he’s scheduled to face Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell in Kingston on June 11. And even then, we may not learn much — recall that four years ago, he lost to Blake in the 100 and 200 at the Jamaican trials only to win gold in both events in London.
“My first 40 meters, maybe 50 meters, was kind of sluggish,” Bolt said to the media after the race. “That’s always needed to get up to speed quickly, so I thought that’s why I run so slow….We have a lot of work to do. I have a couple of months to do it, so I’ll be fine. … I need more races. The more I run, the faster I’ll get.”
The transitive property proves that Bolt has “a lot of work to do.” As we pointed out on the messageboard, Bolt beat runner-up Ramon Gittens by .23. In Shanghai, Gatlin beat Gitens by .30.
This is what a five-second PR looks like
Men’s 1500: Czech Filip Sasinek Gets Big PR, but No One Gets Olympic Standard
The Czech Republic’s World Indoor runner-up Jakub Holusa tried to put on a show for the home fans and was the only one to go with the rabbits through 800 in 1:54. But he couldn’t sustain the hot pace and with 350 to go he was passed by Germany’s Timo Benitz and France’s Bryan Cantero. By the final turn, Brit Chris O’Hare and 20-year-old Czech Filip Sasinek had joined them. Benitz held a slight lead on Sasinek, Cantero and O’Hare, who were three-wide behind him at the top of the home straight. Cantero began to fade as O’Hare and Sasinek began to reel in Benitz; those three men battled to the line but in the end it was Sasinek who was able to come through with the win in 3:36. O’Hare and Holusa (who faded to seventh at the finish) may have missed out on the Olympic standard, but both have it from last summer anyway.
1500 Metres - Men
1 Sasínek , Filip CZE 3:36.32
2 Benitz , Timo GER 3:36.40
3 O'Hare , Chris GBR 3:36.58
4 Cantero , Bryan FRA 3:37.03
5 Bustos , David ESP 3:38.28
6 Kyts , Volodymyr UKR 3:38.61
7 Holuša , Jakub CZE 3:38.86
8 Crippa , Yemaneberhan ITA 3:38.95
9 Lancashire , Thomas GBR 3:39.95
10 Vojta , Andreas AUT 3:39.98
11 Soratos , Christian USA 3:40.85
12 Ostrowski , Artur POL 3:41.55
13 Demczyszak , Mateusz POL 3:46.55
Pavlícek , Matej CZE DNF
Kombich , Ismael Kipngetich KEN DNF
Quick Take #1: A massive breakthrough race from Filip Sasinek
Many expected a Czech runner to take this race, but it was Sasinek, not Holusa, who was celebrating when it was done. He’s made a massive leap forward in 2016, though Sasinek will be a bit disappointed to come so close to the Olympic standard (3:36.20) only to miss out by .12.
Sasinek entered the year with a PB of 3:43.83 but got down to 3:41.37 indoors and won the Czech indoor title in February (Holusa was not in that race). He carried that form over outdoors, PR’ing by over five seconds tonight to get down to 3:36.32.
Next stop, Rio?
Women’s 1500: 19-Year-Old Konstanze Klosterhalfen Gets the Olympic Standard
19-year-old German Konstanze Klosterhalfen ran with a confidence well beyond her years, attacking the race from the front, and she didn’t back off when she found herself in the lead once the final rabbit dropped out at the 1k mark. Klosterhalfen had a lead of around three seconds at that point but would need to keep pushing if she wanted to get the Olympic standard of 4:07.00 (no other German has it).
She did just that, and though she began to tie up toward the end of the race, she held off Slovakia’s Lucia Hrivnak for a 1.47-second PR of 4:06.91 to grab the standard.
1500 Metres - Women
1 Klosterhalfen , Konstanze GER 4:06.91
2 Klocová , Lucia SVK 4:07.96
3 Urbanik , Danuta POL 4:08.05
4 Magnani , Margherita ITA 4:08.73
5 Tarplee , Claire IRL 4:10.65
6 Mäki , Kristiina CZE 4:10.94
7 England , Hannah GBR 4:11.25
8 Capková , Tereza CZE 4:11.82
9 Gashaw , Tigist BRN 4:11.95
10 Alemu , Hawi ETH 4:12.30
11 Kock , Maren GER 4:12.57
12 Vrzalová , Simona CZE 4:13.54
13 Broniatowska , Katarzyna POL 4:15.27
14 Terzic , Amela SRB 4:17.11
15 Macías , Isabel ESP 4:18.60
16 Hirpa , Bedatu ETH 4:19.29
Nilsson , Linn SWE DNF
Shevchenko , Anzhelika UKR DNF
Štuková , Alexandra SVK DNF
Men’s 110 Hurdles
American Jarret Eaton picked up a big .16 PB to win here in 13.25, putting him third on the 2016 U.S. list behind David Oliver (13.16) and Aries Merritt (13.24).
110 Metres Hurdles - Men Wind: 0.0 m/s
1 Eaton , Jarret USA 13.25
2 Porter , Jeff USA 13.42
3 Clarke , Lawrence GBR 13.57
4 Krauss , Simon FRA 13.59
5 Brathwaite , Shane BAR 13.63
6 Martinot-Lagarde , Thomas FRA 13.70
7 Sharman , William GBR 13.74
8 Omoregie , David GBR 13.93
Men’s 400
21-year-old Jamaican Javon Francis looked very impressive, taking the victory in 44.87 over the U.S.’s Tony McQuay and World Indoor champ Pavel Maslak of the Czech Republic. Francis has now run in the 44’s in each of his last three races.
2004 Olympic champ Jeremy Wariner struggled yet again as for the second straight race as the Jimmy John’s owner only managed a 46.21
400 Metres - Men
1 Francis , Javon JAM 44.87
2 McQuay , Tony USA 45.17
3 Maslák , Pavel CZE 45.46
4 Rooney , Martyn GBR 45.78
5 Wariner , Jeremy USA 46.21
6 Clemons , Kyle USA 46.40
7 Šorm , Patrik CZE 46.62
8 Mathieu , Michael BAH 46.83
Women’s 3000
2013 World Champs 5,000 bronze medallist Belaynesh Oljira of Ethiopia looked great, pulling away from countrywoman Haftamnesh Tesfaye in the home stretch to win in a pb of 8:38.55.
3000 Metres - Women
1 Oljira , Belaynesh ETH 8:38.55
2 Tesfay , Haftamnesh ETH 8:40.80
3 Gosa , Dalila Abdulkadir BRN 8:51.31
4 Woldu , Etagegn ETH 9:03.62
5 Eriksson , Sandra FIN 9:11.64
6 Conrad , Nolene RSA 9:15.56
7 Birca , Roxana Elisabeta ROU 9:26.76
8 Drábková , Michaela CZE 9:28.44
9 Stewartová , Moira CZE 9:28.70
10 Maršánová , Lucie CZE 9:28.92
11 Vašinová , Petra CZE 9:29.48
Hálová , Katerina CZE DNF
Tverdostup , Tamara UKR DNF
Women’s 400 Hurdles
The final women’s track event didn’t disappoint. Two-time defending world champ Zuzana Hejnova was expected to take the win in front of the home crowd, but she wound up in a three-way fight for the victory against Poland’s Joanna Linkiewicz and Jamaica’s Kaliese Spencer. In the end, it was the least-credentialed of them, Linkiewicz, who came through for the win in a PB of 55.40.
400 Metres Hurdles - Women
1 Linkiewicz , Joanna POL 55.40
2 Spencer , Kaliese JAM 55.43
3 Hejnová , Zuzana CZE 55.69
4 Rosolová , Denisa CZE 56.90
5 Anacharsis , Phara FRA 57.25
6 Slanicková , Lucia SVK 57.57
7 McMahon , Christine IRL 57.85
8 Richards , Shona GBR 59.08
Men’s 400 Hurdles
400 Metres Hurdles - Men
1 van Zyl , L.J. RSA 48.67
2 Dutch , Johnny USA 49.01
3 Dobek , Patryk POL 49.51
4 Mägi , Rasmus EST 49.75
5 Williams , Rhys GBR 49.85
6 Kucera , Martin SVK 50.27
7 Brož , Michal CZE 51.32
8 Hyde , Jaheel JAM 1:05.98
Women’s 100 Hurdles Results via All-Athletics.
| Pl. | Athlete / Team | Cnt. | Birth | Result | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Brianne THEISEN-EATON | CAN | 86 | 13.20 | 1126 | |
| 2. | Helena TOMKOVÁ | CZE | 92 | 13.95 | 1028 | SB |
| 3. | Kateřina DVOŘÁKOVÁ | CZE | 97 | 13.96 | 1026 | SB |
| 4. | Vladimíra ŠIBOVÁ | SVK | 90 | 14.19 | 997 | PB |
| 5. | Petra HARASIMOVA | CZE | 97 | 14.84 | 917 |
Men’s 200
200 Metres - Men Wind: +0.3 m/s
1 Ellington , James GBR 20.35
2 Tsákonas , Likoúrgos-Stéfanos GRE 20.36
3 Delaney , Arthur USA 20.49
4 Herrera , José Carlos MEX 20.57
5 Morris , Joseph USA 20.62
6 Volko , Ján SVK 20.70
7 Zézé , Mickaël-Méba FRA 20.75
8 Smellie , Gavin CAN 20.79
Women’s 400
400 Metres - Women
1 Day , Christine JAM 51.09
2 Muir , Carline CAN 51.84
3 Beard , Jessica USA 51.88
4 Maiyo , Maureen Jelagat KEN 52.14
5 Bundy-Davies , Seren GBR 52.26
6 Baumgart , Iga POL 53.04
7 Wyciszkiewicz , Patrycja POL 53.05
8 Putalová , Iveta SVK 53.90
Field Events
Women’s Pole Vault
There was a scary moment for U.S. World Indoor silver medallist Sandi Morris, who broke a pole and landed awkward during the pole vault tonight, forcing her to withdraw. Morris is scheduled to compete in the Diamond League meet in Rabat on Sunday and her status for that is up in the air, but she said on Twitter that she’s feeling okay. The Czech Republic’s Jirina Ptacnikova got the upset, taking down world champ Yarisley Silva of Cuba in front of the home fans.
Back in my hotel room after breaking a pole in Ostrava. Big welt on shoulder and cut hand but I'll be ok ???? pic.twitter.com/SlsaJSJCoZ
— Sandi Morris, OLY?? (@sandicheekspv) May 20, 2016
Pole Vault - Women
1 Ptácníková , Jirina CZE 4.60
2 Silva , Yarisley CUB 4.60
3 Peinado , Robeilys VEN 4.50
4 Malácová , Romana CZE 4.50
5 Morris , Sandi USA 4.40
6 Šilhanová , Rebeka CZE 4.20
7 Kylypko , Maryna UKR 4.20
8 Felzmann , Anna GER 4.20
9 Morysková , Aneta CZE 4.00
Malavisi , Sonia ITA NM
Men’s Long Jump
Ashton Eaton placed third with 7.55m but picked up a quad injury that ruled him out of the 100 later in the night.
Long Jump - Men
Wind
1 Juška , Radek CZE 7.92 -1.2
2 Huang , Changzhou CHN 7.59 0.0
3 Eaton , Ashton USA 7.55 -1.0
4 Ewulo , Ezekiel NGR 7.34 -1.0
5 Pírek , Milan CZE 7.17 -0.9
6 Helcelet , Adam Sebastian CZE 7.03 -0.6
Zhang , Yaoguang CHN NM
Men’s Javelin
Germany’s Thomas Rohler followed up his win in Shanghai on Saturday with a terrific series in Ostrava, culminating in a world-leading toss of 87.37m on his final attempt to take the victory. Rohler improved on his mark in each of his five legal attempts (he fouled in the fifth round), working his way up from 81.58 in the first round to 87.37 in the sixth.
Javelin Throw - Men
1 Röhler , Thomas GER 87.37
2 Abdelrahman , Ihab EGY 84.85
3 Krukowski , Marcin POL 84.74
4 Jílek , Jaroslav CZE 83.02
5 Yego , Julius KEN 81.10
6 Vadlejch , Jakub CZE 79.54
7 Hamann , Lars GER 78.96
8 Frydrych , Petr CZE 75.83
Men’s Pole Vault
Pole Vault - Men
1 Lavillenie , Renaud FRA 5.83
2 Barber , Shawnacy CAN 5.70
3 Renner , Robert SLO 5.63
4 Kudlicka , Jan CZE 5.63
5 Yamamoto , Seito JPN 5.63
6 Lisek , Piotr POL 5.55
7 Karalís , Emmanouil GRE 5.55
7 Joseph , Stanley FRA 5.55
9 Borges , Lázaro CUB 5.35
10 Scherbarth , Tobias GER 5.35
11 Balner , Michal CZE 5.35
12 Posekaný , Lukáš CZE 5.15
Eaves , Max GBR NM
Mohr , Malte GER DNS
Men’s Shot Put
Shot Put - Men
1 Bukowiecki , Konrad POL 21.01
2 Majewski , Tomasz POL 20.84
3 Toader , Andrei ROU 20.32
4 Žunic , Stipe CRO 20.22
5 Haratyk , Michal POL 19.82
6 Stanek , Tomáš CZE 19.58
7 Prášil , Ladislav CZE 19.14
8 Stašek , Martin CZE 18.51
Hammer Throws
Men's results
Hammer Throw - Men
Pts
1 Fajdek , Pawel POL 80.66 80.66
2 Nazarov , Dilshod TJK 78.82 78.82
3 Lomnický , Marcel SVK 77.48 77.48
4 Melich , Lukáš CZE 75.97 75.97
5 Söderberg , David FIN 75.75 75.75
6 Nowicki , Wojciech POL 75.38 75.38
7 Janet , Roberto CUB 75.02 75.02
8 Lingua , Marco ITA 74.88 74.88
9 Johnson , Kibwe USA 70.65 70.65
Mahmoud , Hassan Mohamed EGY NM
Women's results
Hammer Throw - Women
Pts
1 Wlodarczyk , Anita POL 78.54 78.54
2 Wang , Zheng CHN 73.80 73.80
3 Fiodorow , Joanna POL 72.77 72.77
4 Heidler , Betty GER 72.41 72.41
5 Šafránková , Katerina CZE 72.34 72.34
6 Klaas , Kathrin GER 71.02 71.02
7 Králová , Tereza CZE 67.07 67.07
8 Lomnicka , Nikola SVK 66.86 66.86
9 Hrasnová , Martina SVK 66.64 66.64