Spasovkhodksiy and Pyatykh carry their coach’s showcase
After leading Danil Burkenya to a triumph in the men’s long jump, coach Yevgeniy Ter-Avanesov continued his winning tradition on the second day of the “Season Opener” meet, as his athletes shone in both triple jump contests despite the cold and windy weather. World Championships Bronze medalist Igor Spasovkhodskiy went an impressive 17,11 on his first attempt, which was his second-best performance ever to the 17,44 effort in Edmonton. World Junior Championships Silver medalist Anna Pyatykh also cranked it up on her initial try with a 14,48 jump, good for a new PR. Since both athletes will have to compete at the European Champions Cup in just one week, Ter-Avanesov asked them to ease down and forego their last attempts. This is what he had to say immediately following the competition: “Even though they [Spasovkhdskiy and Pyatykh] have never started the season on such a high note, we did not train specifically for this competition. I am a proponent of training for the season as a whole. We had a lot of good workouts at the last camp in Skadovsk, but only started doing specialized technical exercises 1,5 weeks ago, so I did not expect the jumps to be that good. I expected Igor to go somewhere around 16,70. He actually jumped with much ease, thinking that it was a pre-competition practice attempt. Our goal is to perform consistently at the 17,20 level this year.”
Pyatyakh was well-prepared last year as well, but got injured in the beginning of the summer and could not compete until the National Championships in Tula, where her PR effort of 14,21 was only good for fifth place. Her injury streak continued through the winter, but seems to be over now – and it shows.
The start lists in both the men’s and the women’s 800 m were impressive. However, it appeared that not only were the runners uninterested in fast times, but that they also were not even trying to set the tempo considered remotely appropriate for the distance - the men covered the first lap in 59,5 seconds, while the women recorded 67,0 for the same split. In the men’s heat, Sergey Kozhevnikov showed the presence that earned him a 1.46.13 performance at this year’s European Indoor Championships. He moved over to lane 2 for the pentultimate curve to surge to the front, covering the third 200 m in 25,8, and ended up winning the race on the strength of a 53,5 second lap. Andrey Zadorozhniy could not muster a similar sprint over the distance that is relatively short for him, and no one in the race went under 1.53. The women went out in a brisk 14 seconds for the first 100 m, but, when told by their coaches that they were running too fast, slowed down excessively to 17 seconds for the second 100 m (31,5 at 200 m mark). The leading pack covered the second 200 m portion of the distance in a pedestrian 35 seconds, before sprinting over the last lap in just over 60 seconds. Svetlana Cherkassova won the heat handily, while Olga Nelyubova earned her second silver of the meet. The slow tempo did not affect the final standings in the men’s competition, however, the women’s elite field was stunned by the young Yelena Sidorchenkova who ran a 2.07,20 in a different heat and ended up winning the competition. Yuriy Abramov, who started training under coach Mikhail Monastyrskiy this year, displayed the valor of solo front running in the men’s 3000 m. Going through the 1000 m in 2.41, and through 200 m in 5.26, he set a new PR of 8.05,48.
Moskva (18.05)
Men -
200 m:
1. Roman Smirnov (84) 21,58
2. Pawel Polyakov 22,45
3. Vadim Khrunik 22,74
4. Roman Gorchakov 22,85
800 m:
1. Sergey Kozhevnikov 1.53,21
2. Andrey Zadorozhniy 1.53,82
3. Maksim Adamovich 1.54,08
4. Vladimir Bozhko 1.54,15
5. Igor Lukyanov 1.54,52
6. Victor Dyakonov 1.56,17
3000 m:
1. Yuriy Abramov 8.05,48
2. Sergey Drygin 8.10,93
3. Sergey Ivanov 8.12,53
4. Andrey Olshanskiy 8.14,71
5. Dmitriy Kuts 8.34,99
6. Aleksandr Orlov 8.36,69
400 mh:
1. Roman Matveyev 52,72
2. Aleksey Gavrilov 57,71
3. Vladimir Sukachev 59,05
4. Dmitriy Petrov (83) 59,30
3kSt:
1. Roman Usov 8.44,75
2. Vladislav Yakubovskiy 9.46,18
TJ:
1. Igor Spasovkhodskiy 17,11
2. Andrey Kurennoy 16,67
3. Aleksey Musikhin 16,41
4. Victor Gushchinskiy 16,25
5. Yevgeniy Plotnir 16,10
6. Aleksandr Petrenko (83) 15,92
DT:
1. Aleksandr Borichevskiy 60,80
2. Sergey Lyakhov 59,40
3. Yuriy Seskin 57,71
4. Aleksey Filippov 57,05
5. Ivan Gurov 48,16
6. Victor Fonov 47,78
7. Mikhayil Teptsov (83) 45,28
8. Vitaliy Glushko 41,81
HT:
1. Vadim Khersontsev 77,64
2. Nikolay Davydov (RUS) 66,03
3. Roman Konevtsov 63,64
4. Andrey Mezhevov 63,54
5. Igor Vinichenko (84) 61,80
6. Ivan Budanov 54,45
Women -
200 m:
1. Mariya Lisnichenko 24,12
2. Olga Kuzekmayeva 24,56
3. Olga Babaylova 25,09
800 m:
r3:
1. Svetlana Cherkasova 2.08,04
2. Olga Nelyubova 2.08,52
3. Tatyana Rodionova 2.09,49
4. Nadezhda Vorobyeva 2.09,77
5. Svetlana Nochevnaya 2.12,13
r4:
1. Yelena Sidorchenkova 2.07,20
2. Svetlana Sidunova 2.10,36
3. Yana Davydova 2.11,20
4. Irina Vashentseva 2.14,05
5. Tatyana Trubitsina (84) 2.23,77
400 mh:
1. Oksana Yelyasova 59,02
2. Yelena Doronina 59,95
3. Svetlana Trunova (83) 63,50
HJ:
1. Tatyana Grigoryeva 1,80
2. Bobby Aleshis (IND) 1,75
3. Olga Fetisova 1,70
PV:
1. Yuliya Golubchikova (83) 3,80
2. Alla Checheleva 3,80
3. Antonina Miller 3,40
TJ:
1. Anna Pyatykh 14,48
2. Olga Yershova 14,19
3. Yelena Lebedenko 13,91
4. Galina Sharova 13,14
5. Irina Maksimova (84) 12,56
6. Yelena Nazarenko 12,43
DT:
1. Natalya Ampleyeva 58,37
2. Yelena Machkanova 50,24
3. Olesya Korotkova (83) 45,93
HT:
1. Alla Davydova 64,45
(60,92, 63,08, 64,30, 64,45, 63,93, е)
2. Yelena Kiseleya 58,18
3. Yuliya Rozenfeld (84) 56,04
4. Galina Kulkova 53,95
5. Yelena Navoshina 50,48
6. Anna Alekseyeva (85) 48,50
Pyatyakh was well-prepared last year as well, but got injured in the beginning of the summer and could not compete until the National Championships in Tula, where her PR effort of 14,21 was only good for fifth place. Her injury streak continued through the winter, but seems to be over now – and it shows.
The start lists in both the men’s and the women’s 800 m were impressive. However, it appeared that not only were the runners uninterested in fast times, but that they also were not even trying to set the tempo considered remotely appropriate for the distance - the men covered the first lap in 59,5 seconds, while the women recorded 67,0 for the same split. In the men’s heat, Sergey Kozhevnikov showed the presence that earned him a 1.46.13 performance at this year’s European Indoor Championships. He moved over to lane 2 for the pentultimate curve to surge to the front, covering the third 200 m in 25,8, and ended up winning the race on the strength of a 53,5 second lap. Andrey Zadorozhniy could not muster a similar sprint over the distance that is relatively short for him, and no one in the race went under 1.53. The women went out in a brisk 14 seconds for the first 100 m, but, when told by their coaches that they were running too fast, slowed down excessively to 17 seconds for the second 100 m (31,5 at 200 m mark). The leading pack covered the second 200 m portion of the distance in a pedestrian 35 seconds, before sprinting over the last lap in just over 60 seconds. Svetlana Cherkassova won the heat handily, while Olga Nelyubova earned her second silver of the meet. The slow tempo did not affect the final standings in the men’s competition, however, the women’s elite field was stunned by the young Yelena Sidorchenkova who ran a 2.07,20 in a different heat and ended up winning the competition. Yuriy Abramov, who started training under coach Mikhail Monastyrskiy this year, displayed the valor of solo front running in the men’s 3000 m. Going through the 1000 m in 2.41, and through 200 m in 5.26, he set a new PR of 8.05,48.
Moskva (18.05)
Men -
200 m:
1. Roman Smirnov (84) 21,58
2. Pawel Polyakov 22,45
3. Vadim Khrunik 22,74
4. Roman Gorchakov 22,85
800 m:
1. Sergey Kozhevnikov 1.53,21
2. Andrey Zadorozhniy 1.53,82
3. Maksim Adamovich 1.54,08
4. Vladimir Bozhko 1.54,15
5. Igor Lukyanov 1.54,52
6. Victor Dyakonov 1.56,17
3000 m:
1. Yuriy Abramov 8.05,48
2. Sergey Drygin 8.10,93
3. Sergey Ivanov 8.12,53
4. Andrey Olshanskiy 8.14,71
5. Dmitriy Kuts 8.34,99
6. Aleksandr Orlov 8.36,69
400 mh:
1. Roman Matveyev 52,72
2. Aleksey Gavrilov 57,71
3. Vladimir Sukachev 59,05
4. Dmitriy Petrov (83) 59,30
3kSt:
1. Roman Usov 8.44,75
2. Vladislav Yakubovskiy 9.46,18
TJ:
1. Igor Spasovkhodskiy 17,11
2. Andrey Kurennoy 16,67
3. Aleksey Musikhin 16,41
4. Victor Gushchinskiy 16,25
5. Yevgeniy Plotnir 16,10
6. Aleksandr Petrenko (83) 15,92
DT:
1. Aleksandr Borichevskiy 60,80
2. Sergey Lyakhov 59,40
3. Yuriy Seskin 57,71
4. Aleksey Filippov 57,05
5. Ivan Gurov 48,16
6. Victor Fonov 47,78
7. Mikhayil Teptsov (83) 45,28
8. Vitaliy Glushko 41,81
HT:
1. Vadim Khersontsev 77,64
2. Nikolay Davydov (RUS) 66,03
3. Roman Konevtsov 63,64
4. Andrey Mezhevov 63,54
5. Igor Vinichenko (84) 61,80
6. Ivan Budanov 54,45
Women -
200 m:
1. Mariya Lisnichenko 24,12
2. Olga Kuzekmayeva 24,56
3. Olga Babaylova 25,09
800 m:
r3:
1. Svetlana Cherkasova 2.08,04
2. Olga Nelyubova 2.08,52
3. Tatyana Rodionova 2.09,49
4. Nadezhda Vorobyeva 2.09,77
5. Svetlana Nochevnaya 2.12,13
r4:
1. Yelena Sidorchenkova 2.07,20
2. Svetlana Sidunova 2.10,36
3. Yana Davydova 2.11,20
4. Irina Vashentseva 2.14,05
5. Tatyana Trubitsina (84) 2.23,77
400 mh:
1. Oksana Yelyasova 59,02
2. Yelena Doronina 59,95
3. Svetlana Trunova (83) 63,50
HJ:
1. Tatyana Grigoryeva 1,80
2. Bobby Aleshis (IND) 1,75
3. Olga Fetisova 1,70
PV:
1. Yuliya Golubchikova (83) 3,80
2. Alla Checheleva 3,80
3. Antonina Miller 3,40
TJ:
1. Anna Pyatykh 14,48
2. Olga Yershova 14,19
3. Yelena Lebedenko 13,91
4. Galina Sharova 13,14
5. Irina Maksimova (84) 12,56
6. Yelena Nazarenko 12,43
DT:
1. Natalya Ampleyeva 58,37
2. Yelena Machkanova 50,24
3. Olesya Korotkova (83) 45,93
HT:
1. Alla Davydova 64,45
(60,92, 63,08, 64,30, 64,45, 63,93, е)
2. Yelena Kiseleya 58,18
3. Yuliya Rozenfeld (84) 56,04
4. Galina Kulkova 53,95
5. Yelena Navoshina 50,48
6. Anna Alekseyeva (85) 48,50
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