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WORLD LEADERS HEADLINE HORIZONTAL JUMPS AT PRE - preclassic.com

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July 1, 2010
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WORLD LEADERS HEADLINE HORIZONTAL JUMPS AT PRE


    Eugene, Oregon—When you’re hot you’re hot. The Diamond League meetings have been good to the event leaders in the men’s long jump and women’s triple jump.  As they come into this Saturday’s Prefontaine Classic Diamond League event, America’s Dwight Phillips and Kazakhstan’s Olga Rypakova lead the world in their events with marks set in the Rome and Shanghai DL meets, respectively. 

    Phillips, of course, loves the friendly confines of Hayward Field, where he is the stadium and Pre Classic recordholder. Last year he launched himself to an amazing lifetime best of 28-8 ¼ (8.74), the longest jump on U.S. soil in 26 years, to wow the sold-out crowd. His 27-7 ½ (8.42) world leader this year shows he is rounding into form. It won’t be  a solo exhibition for the 2004 Olympic and 3-time World Champion, however. Also in the field is the Olympic gold medalist from Beijing, Irving Saladino of Panama, who came within a whisker of beating Phillips at last year’s Pre, his 28-3 ¾ (8.63) falling just short. It was only the tenth time in history that somebody had jumped 28-feet and lost.

    Talk abut 28-footers! Phillips and Saladino just might need jumps of that caliber to win, as the best Pre LJ field ever includes two more members of that elite club, Germany's Sebastian Bayer (28-7/8.71) and this year’s World Indoor Champion, Aussie Fabrice Lapierre (28-9 3/4/8.78).

    For the 25-year-old Rypakova, the path to world-leader status was a bit circuitous.  Such a fine all-round athlete that she won the gold in the heptathlon at the 2006 Asian Games, Rypakova switched to the triple jump in 2007, and almost medaled a year later in Beijing, finishing 4th. Now fully hitting her stride, she has won the 2010 World Indoor title, and leads the world outdoors with a jump of 48-10 ½ (14.89).  The Hayward Field record is 47-2 ¼ (14.38) and the Prefontaine Classic mark is 44-9 (13.64), so both are in grave danger as she takes on newly-crowned U.S. champion Erica McLain.


LONG JUMP (MEN)

Dwight Phillips
Fabrice LaPierre (Australia)
Irving Saladino (Panama)
Sebastian Beyer (Germany)
Brian Johnson
Yahya Berrabah (Morocco)
Li Jinzhe
Trevell Quinley


TRIPLE JUMP (WOMEN)

Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan)
Erica McClain
Nadezhda Alekhina (Russia)
Limei Xie (China)
Anastasiya Taranova (Russia)
Tabia Charles (Canada)
Shakeema Welsch
Toni Smith

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