by Alfonz Juck
Renaud Lavillenie, photo by PhotoRun.net
Lavillenie 596 WL
SOTTEVILLE-LES-ROUEN (FRA, Jul 18): Renaud Lavillenie is back to winning. At the Meeting national (EA Classic) he cleared World leading 596 in the pole vault. After no-heighting in Amsterdam very special return. He cleared 570 in first, 584 in second and winning 596 in first attempt. Then he fouled three times at 601. Second his brother Valentin Lavillenie 560. Keston Bledman of Trinidad won the 100 m in 10.27 (-0.7) over Ramon Gittens of Barbados 10.29. US hurdles wins by Jarret Eaton 13.39 (-0.2) and Christina Manning 12.87 (-0.7) over Belarus Alina Talay 12.88. French Stella Akakpo topped women 100 m in 11.40 (-0.6) just 0.01 ahead of US Lekeisha Lawson 11.41. Canadian Champion Carline Muir clocked 51.70 to win the 400 m ahead of Bahrain´s hurdler Kemi Adekoya 51.80. Kenyan wins by Emily Jerotich in the 800 m 2:00.89 and Barnabas Kipyego steeple 8:15.62. Here second Tunisian record holder Amor Benyahia 8:20.72. Youness Essahli of Morocco won the 1500 m in 3:37.45. In throws Ukrainian Dmytro Kosynsky 81.73 beat Olympic winner Keshorn Walcott 79.62 and Sweden´s Tracey Andersson came close to her national hammer record with 70.74.
