In this update, Alfons Juck, our man about the world, updates us on all things geek regarding the 2011 European Indoor Athletics Championships. The Indoor was, simply, one of the most enjoyable and exciting events that I have ever witnessed. The crowd was great, the facility was perfect, and Paris, well, where else would you want to be in late February-early March? I spent all day Monday traveling back, starting with a walk at 6 am, around Paris, then a taxi out to Charles de Gaulle airport. I miss it already….

Teddy Tamgho, 2011 Euro Indoors, photo by PhotoRun.net.

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To paraphrase a line used about Frank Sinatra, ” It’s Teddy Tamgho’s world, we just live in it. The guy was, well, amazing, with a world record and then a tie of his new world record, in round 2 and round 4.

Jonathan Edwards, the only man to jump over sixty feet, had one word to describe Teddy Tamgho, ” Brilliant.”

SUNDAY (final session)

QUOTE OF
THE DAY

“It proves that i can jump 17.90 anytime now. After the long jump I was
hungry, ” Teddy Tamgho.

Teddy Tamgho, 2011 Euro Indoor, photo by PhotoRun.net

RESULT OF
THE DAY

Twice triple jump world indoor record during one competition. Never
happened at European Indoors, but happened in triple jump, also for Jonathan
Edwards at 1995 worlds in Goteborg
or at Mexico Olympics 1968. 17.92 and 17.92. Last world indoor record at
European indoors was Yelena Isinbayeva 490 in pole vault 2005 in Madrid. In the history of EICH five world
indoor records were registered (Viktor Saneyev 16.95 in 1970, 16.97 in 1972, Michal
Joachimowski 17.03 in
1974, Shamil Abbyasov 17.30
in 1981 and Maris Bruzhiks 17.54 in 1986).

SURPRISE
OF THE DAY

Christophe Lemaitre as whole nation awaited the gold, was third in the 60 m.

FAVORITE FALLS

Svetlana Shkolina did not medal in high jump despite having cleared two
metres this winter twice. Myriam Soumare did not medal in the women 60 m.

WINNERS
OVERVIEW

Surprise Obikwelu over Chambers and Lemaitre. He was semi-retired
already. Poland
ruled in the 800 m.
Olmedo gets usual Spanish middle distance win. Tamgho is the star, but great
depth behind too. Kravchenko gets it and France
beats all in relay, Belgium
saved all runners only for relay, but enough for bronze.

New Ukrainian wave confirmed the position, Soumare disappointed.
Russian-UK duels, 800 for Russia,
3000 for UK.
Di Martino is the best for the moment, but Vlasic will return. Rogowska
confirmed she is a top competitor. Klishina is the big talent of long jump and
usual story at the end, Russia
wins women 4×400 m relay.

SPECTATORS

Spectators: sunday 7391, saturday 14 000 (two sessions together), friday 9800 (two sessions together) – in
total more than 30 000.

OTHERS

Only four individual title defenders succesful here and all men
(Lavillenie, Farah, Ukhov, Bayer). In Torino nobody defended the title from Birmingham. Roman Sebrle
is the oldest medalist in multi-events taking into account also World
Championships or Olympic Games. Russia
wins medals and points, always ahead of Germany
and France.
Figures: 2 world records, 4 world leads, 12 european leads.

STATS
(by Ken Nakamura)

Best results of the championships (based on IAAF scoring tables), it is
603 of Lavillenie (1264) ahead of 17.92 Tamgho (1256) and 238 Ukhov (1241).
Best non-technical is the 7.49 of Petr Svoboda at 60 m hurdles (1214). Best
women result is 201 of Antonietta Di Martino (1211) ahead of 485 Anna Rogowska
in pole vault (1208) and 7.80 at 60
m hurdles (Nytra, Ofili, 1204).

MHeptathlon: The winning margin, 45 points is the smallest ever at the
Euro Indoor Champ, replacing 69 points
differential by Sebrle from 2007. The difference between 3rd and 4th, 3points,
is also the smallest ever in the Euro Indoor Champ, replacing 9points by
Schwarzl from 2005. Krauchanka is the first to win both European Indoor Champ
and Euro Junior Champ. Previously,
Dvorak won gold in 2000 Euro Indoor and silver in 1991 Euro Junior. Sintnicolaas
tied the best mark for 4th place, 6175 (by Dvorak from 1998). Krauchaka won first gold for BLR in
Heptathlon at Euro Indoor Champ. El Fassi won first silver (although FRA won
gold and bronze) for FRA at Heptathlon in Euro Indoor Champ El Fassi’s 1000m
time, 2:34.19, is the fastest 1000m during Heptathlon in the Euro Indoor Champ,
replacing 2:34.29 by Damasek from 1996.

W3000m: Syreva won first silver for RUS (not counting URS) at W3000m in
Euro Indoor Champ. For the second time in history of Euro Indoor Champ, the
athlete from the same nation (GBR) won

3000m (men (Farah) and women (Clitheroe) First was ESP in 2002 when A
Garcia and Dominguez won 3000m in Wien.

M800m: For the second time in the history of European Indoor Champ, a
nation (POL) won both gold and silver at M800m. Previously LJ Gonzalez and
Arconada won gold and silver in 1992.

W800m: RUS 800m runner won this event in the last four European Indoor
Champ. Meadows won first silver for GBR (although GBR won gold before) at W800m
in Euro Indoor Champ

WLJ: Klishina is the fifth Long Jumper to win both Euro Indoor and Euro
Junior. Previously, Nygrynova, Drechsler, May and Johansson won both
championships. RUS Long jumper (not counting URS) won gold at WLJ for the first
time in Euro Indoor.

WHJ: Jungmark won first bronze (although SWE won gold and silver before)
for SWE in WHJ at Euro Indoor Champ

W60m: Povh and Ryemyen won first gold and silver for UKR (not counting
URS) at W60m at Euro Indoor Champ. UKR won gold and silver; previously, GDR had
won gold and silver twice (Gohr and Koch in 1979, Gohr and Gladisch in 1983).
Okparaebo won first bronze for NOR (although NOR won silver previously) at W60m
in Euro Indoor Champ.

M60m: Obikwelu won first gold for
POR at M60m in Euro Indoor Champ. GBR’s winning streat at this event at Euro
Indoor was snapped at five.

WPV: Rogowska won first gold for POL at WPV in Euro Indoor Champ.
Spiegelburg recorded the best mark for second place (4.75) at Euro Indoor
Champ, tying the mark recorded by Rogowska from 2005.

MTJ: Tamgho is the first M triple jumper to win both Euro Indoor and
World Junior Champ. He is also the fifth MTJ to win both Euro Indoor and World
Indoor. Best marks for place for 1st (17.92 WIR), 2nd (17.73) and 3rd (17.62)
were set for indoor TJ. Previsous best marks for places in indoor TJ were 17.91
WIR, 17.69 and 17.42. Donato won first silver for ITA (although ITA won gold
previously) at MTJ in Euro Indoor.

W 4x400m Relay: FRA won first medal in this event at Euro Indoor Champ.

M4x400m Relay: FRA won second
gold at this event in Euro Indoor champ, tying most gold with POL. BEL won
first medal at this event in Euro Indoor Champ. 3:06.17 by FRA is the fastest
in France
by European.

AGENTS
(gold medals – individual events only)

Alfons Juck, Pavel Voronkov, Rene
Auguin, Olga Nazarova, Miguel Mostaza, Gianni de Madonna: 2

Kerstin Pohlers, Jochen Habermaier,
Esther Koelmel, Ricky Simms, Czeslaw Zapala, Linda Ferga-Khodadin,
Federico Rosa, Janusz Szydlowski, Mikhail Gusev, Aivar Karotamm, Jos Hermens: 1

Antonietta Nana Djimou has no agent as per informations obtained by EME
NEWS.

Teddy Tamgho, 2011 Euro Indoor Champs, photo by PhotoRun.net

Author

Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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