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IAAF Men’s World Rankings: Who Climbed and Who Dropped (8/07/2007)

Posted August 7th, 2007 at 5:09 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Jeremy Wariner This week I begin a weekly glance at the athletes who climb and drop in the IAAF World Rankings Top 100 list. In this post, I take a look at the men. I’ll cover the women in a later post.

Some highlights on the men’s side: Jeremy Wariner climbed from 6th place in the rankings to 4th place after his outstanding 43.50 400m in Stockholm. Stefan Holm climbed 9 places after his impressive world-lead tying high jump of 2.35m at the DN Galan meet.

Reese Hoffa jumped 87 places to 21st after his outstanding world-leading 22.43 heave in the shot put. Haile Gebrselassie’s 59:24 at the NY 1/2 Marathon earned him a spot on the rankings at number 32.

Here are the rest of the climbers from this week in the IAAF World Rankings:

4. (6) Jeremy WARINER, USA, 400m
12. (14) Wallace SPEARMON, USA, 200m
21. (29) Reese HOFFA, USA, Shot Put
25. (31) Usain BOLT, JAM, 200m

32. ( - ) Haile GEBRSELASSIE, ETH, Marathon
37. (42) Bernard LAGAT, USA, 1500m
41. (43) Christian CANTWELL, USA, Shot Put
50. (68) Ryan WILSON, USA, 110mH
55. (64) Stefan HOLM, SWE, High Jump
71. (84) Aarik WILSON, USA, Triple Jump
73. (84) Johan WISSMAN, SWE, 200m,400m
76. (94) Rutger SMITH, NED, Shot Put
97. (107) Ron BRAMLETT, USA, 110mH

The following men all dropped 4 places this week, the biggest drop in the Top 100 this week:

79. (75) Brimin Kiprop KIPRUTO, KEN, 1500m,3000mSC
79. (75) Daniel ECKER, GER, Pole Vault
79. (75) Roman � EBRLE, CZE, Decathlon
82. (78) Ezekiel KEMBOI, KEN, 3000mSC
82. (78) Moses KIPSIRO, UGA, 5000m,10 000m
84. (80) Isaac Kiprono SONGOK, KEN, 5000m
85. (81) Marek PLAWGO, POL, 400mH
86. (82) Linus THÖRNBLAD, SWE, High Jump
87. (83) Brandon SIMPSON, BRN, 400m
88. (84) Jaouad GHARIB, MAR, Marathon

For complete results please visit: [IAAF]