«Christmas Games» in Ekaterinburg

The brand-new 200-meter oval in Ekaterinburg hosted this event with a
hefty purse. Unfortunately for athletes, track fans and specialists, the
races in the Urals and their namesake, Moscow’s “Christmas Games”, were held
on the same day—January 7.

An exciting duel unfolded in front of the crowd in women’s 2000m, where
Elena Zadorozhnaya was able to hold off the reigning 5000m World Champion
Olga Egorova. Their respective times of 5.41,46 and 5.41,83, complimentary
of the track itself, are also 2nd and 3rd on the Russian all-time list for
the distance, with only Egorova herself having covered 2000m indoors faster,
in 5.39,30.

Viktoriya Seregina rose to excellence in the women’s High Jump with a
leap of 1,96 m.

The outcome of the women’s 1000 m appeared none short of a sensation,
with Nadezhda Vorobyeva emerging from relative obscurity of a 2.04+ 800 m
PR. To win the race, she had to defeat ex-European Cup winners, Iina
Mistyukevich (in 2000 and 2001) and Larisa Mikhailova (in 1998), whose PR ‘s
at the distance are good seven seconds better. It is fair to say that the
more celebrated pair allowed a slow tempo, which led to times at least 4
seconds inferior to those run last year on a 150-meter track.

Yekaterinburg (07.01)
Men -
60 m:
1. Gennadiy Chernovol (KZK) 6,69
2. Aleksandr Ryabov 6,78
3. Oleg Sergeyev 6,79
4. Aleksandr Smirnov 6,81
5. Sergey Bykonya 6,88
6. Dmitriy Vasilyev 6,89
300 m:
1. Gennadiy Chernovol (KZK) 33,67
2. Oleg Sergeyev 34,06
3. Dmitriy Forshev 34,09
4. Denis Busovikov 34,29
5. Aleksandr Usov 34,45
6. Ruslan Mashchenko 34,61
500 m:
1. Yevgeniy Lebedev 1.02,47
2. Aleksandr Ladeyshchikov 1.03,06
3. Dmitriy Petrov 1.03,66
4. Mikhayil Lipskiy 1.03,88
5. Vladislav Shiryayev 1.04,12
6. Aleksandr Borshchenko 1.04,79
1000 m:
1. Dmitriy Bogdanov 2.21,03
2. Boris Kaveshnikov 2.23,49
3. Ramil Aritkulov 2.23,63
4. Roman Koval 2.24,36
5. Aleksey Ivanov 2.25,76
6. Aleksey Urazov 2.28,35
3000 m:
1. Azat Rakipov (BLR) 8.15,55
2. Sergey Ivanov 8.15,76
3. Oleg Kulkov 8.17,56
4. Sergey Davydov 8.18,19
5. Yevgeniy Konoyko 8.19,30
6. Denis Bagrev (KGZ) 8.26,48
5 kmW:
1. Vladimir Andreyev 19.07,94
2. Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 19.39,13
3. Ivan Kuznetsov 19.43,39
4. Ilya Markov 20.07,31
5. Sergey Lystsov 20.18,98
6. Aleksandr Prilepin 20.26,33
HJ:
1. Pawel Fomenko 2,26
2. Marat Rakipov 2,05
Women -
60 m:
1. Natalya Ignatova 7,26
2. Larisa Kruglova 7,27
3. Yulia Tabakova 7,30
4. Natalya Mikhaylovskaya 7,37
5. Irina Khabarova 7,44
6. Yelena Tyushnyakova 7,52
300 m:
1. Olesya Zykina 37,59
2. Olga Maksimova 38,14
3. Irina Khabarova 38,22
4. Natalya Mikhaylovskaya 38,73
5. Yelena Kolesnikova 39,17
6. Zulfiya Grigoryeva 39,44
500 m:
1. Natalya Khrushchelyova 1.10,50
2. Svetlana Starkova 1.12,63
3. Ulyana Vasilyeva 1.13,99
4. Svetlana Sagaydak 1.14,40
5. Yuliya Ovchinnikova 1.16,60
6. Lyubov Kozhevnikova 1.16,68
1000 m:
1. Nadezhda Vorobyeva 2.48,03
2. Irina Mistyukevich 2.48,82
3. Larisa Mikhaylova 2.49,08
4. Tatyana Lisnichenko 2.50,50
5. Natalya Shipitsyna 2.52,93
6. Natalya Kutkina 2.56,88
2000 m:
1. Yelena Zadorozhnaya 5.41,61
2. Olga Yegorova 5.41,83
3. Oksana Belyakova 5.48,96
4. Sofya Larionova 6.05,35
5. Mariya Vilisova 6.06,99
HJ:
1. Viktoriya Seryogina 1,96
2. Anna Tchitcherova 1,93
3. Yekaterina Kuntsevich 1,75