High Jump
1. Blanka Vlašic, 108
2. Ariane Friedrich, 59
3. Yelena Slesarenko, 55
4. Vita Palamar, 51
5. Ruth Beitia, 46
6. Marina Aitova, 38
7. Anna Chicherova, 36
7. Tia Hellebaut, 36
9. Ekaterina Savchenko, 32.5
10. Chaunte Howard, 32
Vlašic is the overall points leader for all events, men and women. She goes to all the biggest meets, is undefeated, and regularly jumps higher than any other active jumper’s PR. American Howard should climb the ranks as she continues to improve in her return to competition after having a baby.
Pole Vault
1. Jennifer Stuczynski, 64
2. Yelena Isinbayeva, 48
3. Yuliya Golubchikova, 45
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Shot Put
1. Valerie Vili, 74
2. Nadine Kleinert, 46
3. Nadzeya Ostapchuk, 43
4. Misleydis Gonzalez, 41
5. Meiju Li, 34
6. Anna Omarova, 31
6. Chiara Rosa, 31
8. Christina Schwanitz, 30
9. Kristin Heaston, 29
10. Cleopatra Borel-Brown, 26
Kiwi Vili dominated the indoor circuit and picked up right where she left off in a late-May meet held in the Beijing Olympic stadium. Ostapchuk has only competed three times this year and Kleinert didn’t do much indoors, otherwise they would be further ahead of the other throwers.
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3000 meters
(includes no-pacemaker championship-type 5k races)
1. Meseret Defar, 68
2. Meselech Melkamu, 42
3. Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet, 38
4. Tirunesh Dibaba, 38
5. Gelete Burka, 35
6. Ejegayehu Dibaba, 32
7. Kim Smith, 28
8. Olga Komiagina, 26
9. Ruth Bisibori Nyangau, 26
10. Grace Momanyi, 21
World Indoor champion Defar is still the best at this distance, but hasn’t yet run against her rival, 5k world-record-breaker Tirunesh Dibaba.
5000 & 10,000 meters
1. Tirunesh Dibaba, 74
2. Gelete Burka, 50
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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.
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High Jump
1. Yaroslav Rybakov, 56.5
2. Stefan Holm, 56
3. Andrey Silnov, 49.5
4. Ivan Ukhov, 42
5. Andra Manson, 33
6. Jesse Williams, 30
7. Dusty Jonas, 29
8. Kabelo Kgosiemang, 29
9. Linus Thörnblad, 26
10. Kyriakos Ioannou, 23
World Indoor champ Holm and world list leader Rybakov are neck-and-neck. Silnov’s win last Sunday at the Prefontaine Classic tightened his grip on third. As I type this, Nebraska’s Dusty Jonas is competing in the NCAA championships, which would move him into fourth if he wins as expected.
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On Monday I posted the men’s dual-meet rankings. Here are the women’s rankings, following the same rules and formats:
#1. Southern Cal
The Trojans beat UCLA, and that’s all they needed to be ranked at the top.
#2. Minnesota
The Golden Gophers won the four-team Pepsi Collegiate Challenge by a single point over Oregon.
#3. Oregon
The Ducks took a narrow second at the Pepsi Challenge, defeating Penn State and Washington. (Next year they are expected to join in the revived men’s dual meet with UCLA.)
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Years ago, the dual meet was the cornerstone of the college schedule, with some schools regularly taking part in half a dozen of them per year. Even into the early 80s they were quite common. But when budgets were slashed and team sized plummeted, the dual meet dropped off the radar screen.
The regionals format for outdoor track has taken much of the pressure off in terms of getting an NCAA qualifying mark, and in recent years the meet has seen a bit of a resurgence; a few were even carried on regional cable TV. This past weekend saw the end of the dual-meet season with three rather important matchups (USC vs. UCLA, Washington vs. Washington State, and Arizona vs. Arizona State vs. Northern Arizona).
Recognizing this fact, I’m going to reinstate something Track & Field News once did: National Dual-Meet Rankings. Rules for ranking are as follows.
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Sprint newcomer Carmelita Jeter (Nike/USA) and jumps veteran Pegge Devetzi (Adidas/GRE) headline the year-end Track and Field News world rankings which featured 14 Total Sports athletes. Jeter completed the 2007 season ranked no. 3 in the women’s 100 meters according to the magazine, while Devetzi earned the same ranking in the women’s triple jump.
Xavier “X-Man” Carter (Nike/USA) [Pictured]bounced back from an early season injury and ranked no. 4 in the men’s 200 meters, while Luis Tsatoumas (Puma/GRE) used a big early season jump to rank 4th in the men’s long jump. Joining Carter and Tsatoumas with a no. 4 ranking was one-lap specialist Novlene Williams (Adidas/JAM) who took the bronze medal in Osaka. David Payne (Nike/USA) rounded out the list of Total Sports athletes in the top five ranking at no. 5 over the short barriers. Lolo Jones (Asics/USA) in the 100 hurdles, and Kenia Sinclair (Nike/USA) in the 800 meters, just missed top five rankings as they finished in the no. 6 spot in their respective events.
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Race Results Weekly, the wire service of distance running, announced today that Ethiopian Gete Wami and Kenyan Martin Lel were the top-ranked marathon runners of 2007. RRW produced for the third time an annual top-10 marathoner ranking based on key victories, head-to-head competition, fast times, consistent performances in multiple races and, in some cases, heroic efforts.
“Lel was a clear choice for us by winning both London and New York, a feat no man had ever accomplished” said Editor & Publisher, David Monti. “However, it was much closer on the women’ side between Wami and China’s Zhou Chunxia.”
Florida State Men Ranked #1 in NCAA Indoor T&F
The Florida State men’s track & field team is ranked #1 in the USTFCCCA preseason indoor rankings. Led by Walter Dix, they won the 2006 and 2007 Outdoor NCAA titles. Washington is ranked 2nd and Tennessee is ranked 3rd. Read more at: [USTFCCCA]
LSU Women Ranked #1 in NCAA Indoor T&F
The LSU women lead the USTFCCCA preseason NCAA Div. I Rankings for indoor track & field. They are led by hurdler Jessica Ohanaja and sprinter Kelly Ann Baptiste. Arizona State
begins the season ranked 2nd and Tennessee is ranked 3rd. Read more at: [USTFCCCA]
IAAF To Begin End-Of-Year Reviews On Saturday
This Saturday marks the first day of the IAAF’s annual end-of-year reviews. The IAAF is the world’s governing body of track & field. Here are the publication dates: Combined Events (Saturday, 12/22), Throws (Monday, 12/24), Jumps (Wednesday, 12/26), Hurdles (Thursday, 12/27), Road Running / Race Walks (Friday, 12/28), Long Distance/ Steeplechase (Saturday, 12/29), Middle Distance (Sunday, 12/30), Sprints (Monday, 12/31). Read more beginning this Saturday at: [IAAF]
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Following an exciting “Conference Weekend”, the Wisconsin men and Stanford women easily retained their #1 rankings in the Week 6 USTFCCCA Division I polls.
The Wisconsin men won its 8th consecutive Big Ten Conference title and the Stanford women won its 11th straight Pac-10 Conference Championship - showing once again why they are the […]
We always post the weekly D-I cross country rankings just after they are made public on Tuesdays.
However, there will be no D-I USTFCCCA rankings this week.
Don Kopriva of the USTFCCA explains:
[No] rankings this week for the men (or the women) because there were no meets of any consequence last weekend (the weekend before […]
The Wisconsin men and Stanford women retained their #1 rankings according to the Week 4 USTFCCCA Division I polls.
The Wisconsin men didn’t participate in the Pre-Nationals event. However, they did win the Jim Drews Invitational while resting their best runners.
The Stanford women were unanimously voted as the #1 female team […]
There were very few changes in the Week 3 Cross Country Rankings because most teams took the weekend off. They did so in an attempt to better prepare themselves for next Saturday’s Pre-Nationals at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN.
On the men’s side, there were literally no changes. Wisconsin remained #1 with […]
The Wisconsin men and Stanford women retained their #1 rankings according to the the Week 2 USTFCCCA polls.
The new poll demonstrated some notable changes following this past weekend’s cross country action:
The Oregon men rose from 17th to 6th and the Arkansas women moved up four spots on the heels of their big wins at the […]
Week 1’s USTFCCCA rankings were announced this past Tuesday (9/26/06). Wisconsin, the defending champion men’s team, remains at the top of rankings. On the women’s side, Stanford XC leads the way.
Complete rankings –>
MEN’S - National
1) Wisconsin (450)
2) Arkansas (432)
3) Colorado (412)
4) Stanford (401)
5) Iona College (382)
6) Texas (377)
7) Arizona (355)
8) Portland (344)
9) […]
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