World Points Standings:
Women’s Middle Distance
Posted June 16th, 2008 at 11:09 AM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Rankings, World Standings
800 Meters
1. Pamela Jelimo, 88
2. Yelena Soboleva, 57
3. Maria Mutola, 43
4. Maryam Yusuf Jamal, 40
5. Liliana Popescu, 39
6. Tamsyn Lewis, 35
7. Lucia Klocová, 34
8. Kenia Sinclair, 33
9. Tatyana Petlyuk, 32
10. Jennifer Meadows, 29
Jelimo’s sudden dominance is jaw-dropping; three races in the 1:54-1:55 range plus another 1:58 (without a pacemaker and at a mile-and-a-half of altitude). Soboleva’s indoor campaign was so good that she ranks second on the strength of just two meets. Supervet Mutola is the best of the rest; milers Jamal and Popescu are using the 800 as tune-ups (and doing very well at it). Lewis is proving what I thought back in March, which is that her World Indoor Championships win was a lucky fluke.
1500 Meters / Mile
1. Yelena Soboleva, 83
2. Gelete Burka, 60
3. Liliana Popescu, 48
4. Yulia Fomenko, 47
5. Maryam Yusuf Jamal, 40
6. Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet, 34
7. Christin Wurth-Thomas, 28
8. Nancy Jebet Lagat, 25
9. Maria de Lurdes Mutola, 24
9. Shannon Rowbury, 24
Soboleva was undoubtedly the indoor athlete of the year, male or female, and has a huge lead even though she hasn’t yet run outdoors. Burka has an amazingly broad range–she took bronze in this event at the World Indoors, and then a few weeks later took sixth at the World Cross Country Championships. Popescu is the best runner of the early outdoor season; she has run some fast times in small out-of-the-way meets and won the Berlin Golden League race. The US has two in the top ten, and Rowbury would be much higher if she had run more than just two 1500m races this year. NCAA indoor/outdoor champ Hannah England came up just shy of the top ten.
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Tags: IAAF, middle distance, rankings, womens middle distance, World Athletics Tour, World Poins Standings
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