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2010 IAAF Continental Cup – Results
These are the results of the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup, which took place in Split, Croatia on 4 and 5 September 2010. Men Track Men's 100 metres Men's 200 metres Men's 400 metres Men's 800 metres Men's 1500 metres Men's 3000 metres Men's 5000 metres Men's 110 metre hurdles Men's 400 metre hurdles Men's 3000 metre steeplechase Men's 4 × 100 metres relay Men's 4 × 400 metres relay Field Men's high jump Men's pole vault Men's long jump Men's triple jump Men's shot put Men's discus throw Men's hammer throw Men's javelin throw Women Track Women's 100 metres Women's 200 metres Women's 400 metres Women's 800 metres Women's 1500 metres Women's 3000 metres Women's 5000 metres Women's 100 metre hurdles Women's 400 metre hurdles Women's 3000 metre steeplechase Women's 4 × 100 metres relay Women's 4 × 400 metres relay Field Women's high jump Women's pole vault Women's long jump Women's triple jump Women's shot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 IAAF Continental Cup
The 1st IAAF Continental Cup was an international track and field sporting event held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations. Originally scheduled as the 11th IAAF World Cup in Athletics, it was renamed in 2008 when the IAAF revamped the competition format. It was held in Split, Croatia on 4–5 September 2010. The competition mascot was an anthropomorphic white seagull with a blue hat and scarf, named Marino. Designed by children from the Juraj Bonači educational centre, the mascot builds on the fact that Split is a coastal city. The attendance for the second day of the competition was about 25,000. Format The four teams competing in the event were Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The African and European teams were selected via the results of the 2010 African Championships in Athletics and the 2010 European Athletics Championships, respectively. The Americas team selection was assembled from the athletes at the top of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lewis-Francis
Mark Anthony Lewis-Francis, MBE (born 4 September 1982) is a retired British track and field athlete, specifically a sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres and was an accomplished regular of GB 4 x 100m relay. A renowned junior, his greatest sporting achievement at senior level has been to anchor the Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4 x 100 metres relay team to a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Individually, Lewis-Francis has won the silver medal in the 100 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and silver medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Men's 100m final and numerous indoor medals. Lewis-Francis is a member of the Birchfield Harriers athletics club and is also known as the "Darlaston Dart". Early career Lewis-Francis burst onto the scene at an early age but did not attend the 2000 Summer Olympics, instead competing at the World Junior Championships, in which he won gold. Lewis-Francis became Britain's top 100 m sprinter after Dwain Chambers w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Wariner
Jeremy Matthew Wariner (born January 31, 1984) is a retired American track athlete specializing in the 400 meters. He has won four Olympic medals (three gold, one silver) and six World Championships medals. He is the fourth fastest competitor in the history of the 400 m event with a personal best of 43.45 seconds, behind Wayde van Niekerk (43.03 WR, 2016), Michael Johnson (43.18 WR, 1999) and Butch Reynolds (43.29 WR, 1988) and the fifth fastest all-time mark when set it in 2007. Wariner was born in Irving, Texas. A successful college athlete at Baylor University, he won the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay gold medals at his first Olympics in Athens 2004. He followed this with two gold medals at the 2005 World Championships in the same events. He remained undefeated in the 400 m event during the 2006 ÅF Golden League, earning him the $250,000 jackpot. He remained World Champion in the 400 m individual and relay events at the 2007 Osaka World Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (born 1 January 1984) is a Gambian-Norwegian sprinter. He is of Serer heritage of the noble Ndure family. In 2002, he went to Oslo, aged 18 and settled with his father who has lived in Norway since the 1970s. Having changed nationality from Gambia to Norway in 2006, he holds Norwegian records in the 100 and holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in the 200 metres,Gambian athletics records – Athlerecords.net and is the seventh and fourth fastest European of all times on the two distances. He has a from the |
Matt Davies (athlete)
Matthew Davies or Matt Davies may refer to: * Matthew Davies (figure skater) (born 1981), English figure skater * Matthew Davies (footballer) (born 1995), Australian-Malaysian footballer * Matthew Davies (historian), British urban historian * Matthew Davies (died 1615), Member of Parliament for Cardiff * Matthew Henry Davies (1850–1912), Australian politician * Matthew W. Davies (1882–1947), Welsh musician * Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth (1840–1935), Welsh politician * Matthew Davies-Kreye, lead singer of the band Funeral for a Friend * Matt Davies (cartoonist) (born 1966), British-American cartoonist and children's book author and illustrator *Matt Davies (rugby league) Matt Davies (born 9 April 1998) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the London Broncos in the Betfred Super League. He has spent time on loan from the Broncos at the London Skolars and the Coventry Bears in Leag ... (born 1998), British rugby league footballer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud
Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud (born 10 June 1986 in Damietta) is an Egyptian sprinter who specializes in 100 & 200 metres. His personal best times are 10.13 and 20.36 seconds in the 100 and 200 metres. He ranked sixth in the 100 metres at the 2006 African Championships. In the 200 metres he won the 2007 Summer Universiade, and competed at the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final round. He also competed in 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships in 2003 and 2008. Seoud represented Egypt at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 200 metres and placed fifth in his first round heat in a time of 20.75 seconds. His record was among the ten best losing times, which granted him a slot in the second round. He improved his time in the second round to 20.55 seconds, placing sixth. This performance was not enough to compete at the semi finals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenji Fujimitsu
is a Japanese sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. He is a one-time Asian champion and two-time national champion in the event and has a personal best of 20.13 seconds. He is also a bronze medalist in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2017 World Championships. He holds the Asian best in the rarely-contested 300 metres. Personal bests Achievements National titles * Japanese Championships **200 m: 2010, 2015 See also *List of World Athletics Championships medalists (men) Men have contested events at the World Athletics Championships since its inauguration in 1983. The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was held in 1976 for the ... * List of Asian Games medalists in athletics * List of 200 metres national champions (men) References External links * * * * * * 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Saitama (city) Japanese male sprinters Olympic male s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Malcolm
Christian Sean Malcolm (born 3 June 1979) is a retired Welsh track and field athlete who specialised in the 200 metres. In 2020 he was appointed Head Coach of the British Athletics Olympic Programme. Early life Malcolm was born and was brought up in Newport, where he still lives. He is of Jamaican descent. When Malcolm was 15 years old, he was offered a contract by English football club Nottingham Forest, having had trials earlier with them and Queens Park Rangers as a young forward. In a 1998 interview, Malcolm claimed he chose athletics as in his view it is a "friendlier sport and you're not as likely to get kicked around the pitch". Education Malcolm was educated at two state schools in Newport: Eveswell Primary School and Hartridge High School. Life and career Malcolm won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and at the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 100m in 10.12 seconds and the 200m in 20.44 seconds, becoming the second sprinter to achie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churandy Martina
Churandy Thomas Martina (born 3 July 1984) is a Dutch sprinter from Curaçao, currently representing the Netherlands. Previously, he represented the Netherlands Antilles until its dissolution in 2010. His personal best time over 100 metres is 9.91 seconds, a Dutch record, achieved in a 2012 London Olympic Games semi-final. In addition, he holds the 200 metres national record with a time of 19.81 seconds, achieved at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. He originally finished second in the 200 m at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing but was disqualified due to a lane violation. Career Born in Willemstad, Curaçao, Martina began his international career at the youth level, reaching the 100 metres semifinals of the 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics. Moving up to the junior level, he ran at the World Junior Championships in Athletics in 2000 and 2002, although he was less successful at that level. His first gold came in the 100 m a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Spearmon
Wallace Spearmon Jr. (born December 24, 1984, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, USA) is a retired American Sprint (running), sprint Track and field, athlete, who specializes in the 200 metres, 200 meters. He is a two-time NCAA outdoor champion in the 200 m and won the silver medal in the event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. He has a personal best of 19.65 seconds for the distance, making him the ninth fastest 200 meter runner of all time, and he formerly held the indoor United States records in track and field, American record. He has won the bronze medal twice at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007 and 2009. He also finished third at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was later disqualified for stepping out of his lane. Career Spearmon is a graduate of Fayetteville High School (Arkansas), Fayetteville High School and attended the University of Arkansas, where he competed collegiately for two seasons before turning pro. While at Arkansa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Zakari
Abdul Aziz Zakari (born September 2, 1976) is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He was born in Accra, Ghana. Participating in the 2000 Summer Olympics, he made it to the final of the 100 metres, but failed to finish after becoming injured at about the 35m mark. Also participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved second place in his 100 metres heat, thus making it through to the second round. Heading into the second round, he was victorious in a tough sprint, before achieving qualification from his semi-final. This good form was not able to continue, as he failed to finish in the final, staged on August 22, renowned as possibly the fastest collective 100 metre race in history, where six of the seven finishing athletes completed the race in ten seconds or less. He finally, for the first time, achieved a sub-10 second run on June 14, 2005, in Athens when he ran 9.99 seconds in Asafa Powell's world record breaking race. The Ghanaian record currently belongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Rouge-Serret
Aaron Rouge-Serret (born January 1988) is an Australian former athlete who competed as a sprinter. Raised in Melbourne, Rouge-Serret is the son of a Mauritian-born butcher and attended Caulfield Grammar School. In 2005 he was the Australian All Schools Champion in both the 100 and 200 metre sprints. Rouge-Serret, who had a personal best in the 100 metres of 10.17 seconds, was coached by Neville Sillitoe. In 2010, Rouge-Serret came fifth in the 100 metres final at the Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ... in Delhi and was seventh in the 100 metres at the IAAF Continental Cup in Split, Croatia. Rouge-Serret represented Australia in three editions of the World Athletics Championships. References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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