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Lead Stories: Monday, December 1, 2008

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.
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