by Larry Eder
MASLAK MEET RECORD 45.82
CHEMNITZ (GER, Feb 7): After two years break the Chemnitz Indoor meet returned with 17th edition and was highlighted by meet record in men 400 m by the reigning World Indoor Champion Pavel Maslak 45.82. Second Rafal Omelko of Poland 46.68. Another top race men 60 m as Christian Blum equaled his PB 6.56 over World Indoor Champion Richard Kilty 6.57 and Julian Reus 6.60. Hurdler Erik Balnuweit also in good shape with 7.61 over Czech Petr Svoboda 7.72 and Alexander John also 7.72. Another home win for Robin Schembera 1:47.80 in the 800 m where Slovak Jozef Repcik was second 1:47.90 and Sebastian Keiner third 1:48.00. Poland athletes won the technical events. Adrian Strzalkowski long jump 797 (young talent Max Hess second 780) and Przemyslaw Czerwinski 550 (Holzdeppe did not compete). Hurdles Zurich medalist Cindy Roleder improved her 60 m PB to 7.34 as winner. In triple jump good German duel with Kristin Gierisch 14.18 and Katja Demut 14.16, Slovak Dana Veldakova third 13.85.
(Editor’s note: Pavel Maslak has come back from injury problems and is rolling this early in season. Looking forward to seeing him at European Indoors in Prague.)
