Andrew Howe out for season: Achilles rupture, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder

Andrew Howe, 2011 Compeed Golden Gala, Roma, photo by PhotoRun.net

Andrew Howe ruptured his left achilles tendon this week and will require surgery. 2011 is obviously over. Howe was not long jumping, but planning to run the 200 at the World Champs.

RBR is now in Stockholm, watch for the coverage of the DN Galan Stockholm DL tomorrow!

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JOCKGRIM (GER, Jul 27): German pole vaulter Karsten Dilla did a good
step towards his selection for Daegu when he won the special pole vault
meet in Jockgrim with 572 clearance. It is his personal best and German
Daegu A-standard. Other five jumpers followed with also 572 cm. Second
Kostadinos Filippidis of Greece, third US Jeremy Scott, fourth in a tie
Cuban Lazaro Borges (national record) with Raphael Holzdeppe and sixth
Derek Miles. Two favorites no-heighted, Brad Walker at 540 and Malte
Mohr at 560. Women winner Becky Holliday of USA jumped 450 cm

JOENSUU (FIN, Jul 27): At Vattenfall series meet fast women 1500 m by
Australian Zoe Buckman 4:06.06 new personal best. Second US Erin Donohue
4:07.04. Elijah Chelimo won the steeple in 8:22.73 and another Kenyan
Lewis Korir the 5000 m in 13.33.64. In 200 m sprints FinnlandÂ´s Jonathan
Astrand beat in 21.01 (+0.2) the US Daegu-bound Jeremy Dodson (21.09).
Charonda Williams clocked 23.40 (-0.7) in womenÂ´s 200 m. Tommi Evila was
better by 1 cm in long jump then young South African Luvo Manyonga
(781-780). Olli-Pekka Karjalainen of Finland won the hammer (76.54) and
Russian Irina Tarasova achieved 18.42 in the shot put.

HELSINGBORG (SWE, Jul 27): Brittish discus champion Brett Morse threw a
new lifetime best in Helsingborg which was measured at 66.06m. He is the
latest Briton to achieve the ‘A’ standard for the World Championships
and Olympics. Morse went in to the competition with a PB of 64.49m, but
he produced four throw in excess of that mark and came away from the
competition with a lifetime best and Welsh record of 66.06m. It ranks
him third on a UK all-time list that has taken some battering this year,
following Lawrence Okoye’s UK record 67.63m and PBs from Abdul Buhari
(65.44m) and Carl Myerscough. Second Austrian Gerhard Mayer fulfilled
also Daegu standard with 63.35 m.

LJUBLJANA (SLO, Jul 27): At 6th Sustersic and Cvetan Memorial meet
Marija Sestak achieved the Daegu standard in the triple jump with 14.30
(+1.8). Another home star Martina Ratej was back in javelin after injury
with 59.19. Slovak Jana Veldakova won the long jump (646) amd Sara
Petersen clocked impressive Danish 400 m hurdles record 55.97. In men
events US wins for sprinter Deun White 10.57 (-1.4) and 20.92 (-1.2) and
hurdler Ryan Fontenot 13.67 (-1.9). Hungarian Lajos Kurthy won the shot
put (20.10) and in the 400 m hurdles Emir Bekric of Serbia in 49.86
beat new-Slovenian import Brent LaRue 49.87.

TRABZON (TUR, Jul 27): Third day of athletics at European Youth Olympic
Festival had Briton Clovis Asong winning the 400 m in 46.93 and his
team-mate Elliott Sayo the long jump (738, +1.4). Ruari Finnegan of
Ireland was the best in the 1500 m (3:53.78). Another British win in
girls 1500 m by Sophie Richels 4:25.95.

NEWS

RIETI (ITA): Bad news for Italian athletics. Former long jump European
champion Andrew Howe during a training session ruptured his left
achilles tendon. He needs a quick surgery this week. No information was
given for long he will be unable to train, but of course season 2011 is
over. He was concentrating on sprints this summer and planned to compete
in the 200 m also at the World Championships.

LONDON (GBR): World number one hurdler David Oliver believes a sell-out
crowd at next week’s Aviva London Grand Prix could set the stage for his
maiden World title next month, but warned fans it’s now a race against
time to secure seats for his clash with Olympic champion Dayron Robles
and European and Commonwealth champion Andy Turner on 5 August. However,
in his path for glory in both South Korea and at the Crystal Palace
National Sports Centre next week, stands Beijing gold medallist and
World Record holder Dayron Robles, the Cuban athlete who has inflicted
one of Oliver’s two defeats this season when recording his first victory
over the American in more than three years with a win in Paris. And
with only a final few tickets remaining for Friday to see the 110m
hurdles competition, in addition to Asafa Powell in the 100m and Mo
Farah in the 3000m, Oliver has urged athletics fans in London not to
miss out on what he insists will be one of the showpiece events at next
year’s Olympic Games. Organizers are informing in a release

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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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