Skip to main content

US on top with 6 golds in World Athletics

Saturday, August 22, 2009 BERLIN: Allyson Felix of the US won the women’s 200m race while the United States leading the event with six gold medals in the World Athletics Championship, being held here in Germany.Weather became pleasant with rain on the sixth day of the World Athletics Championship.Felix picked up a hat-trick of world 200m titles as she clocked 22.02sec to beat Jamaica's Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown.LaShawn Merritt, also from the US, added world gold to his Beijing Olympics victory as the Olympic champion dethroned two-time defending world champion Jeremy Wariner in the 400m. He finished second at the Osaka 2007 worlds, clocked a world lead of 44.06sec over 400m, far off his Beijing Games time of 43.75sec, the fifth fastest time ever.Yaroslav Rybakov of Russia won the men's high jump title. The 28-year-old -three times a silver medalist - won with a best jump of 2.32m edging out Kyriakos Ioannou of Cyprus (2.32m) on countback.Newly-crowned 1500m champion Yusuf Saad Kamel of Bahrain moved closer to repeating his father Billy Konchellah's feat of winning the world 800m crown when he qualified for Sunday's final.The Kenyan-born runner, who won 1500m gold on Wednesday, produced his trademark last-gasp burst of speed to nip in ahead of Russia's former Olympic champion Yuriy Borzakovsky at the line in 1min 45.01sec.Australia's Dani Samuels won the women's discus when the 21-year-old threw 65.44m ahead of Cuba's Yarelis Barrios (65.31m) while Nicoleta Grasu of Romania took bronze (65.20m).
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

India's swine flu death rate is increasing

Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
Post a Comment
Read more

Cuba's world-famous cigar festival closes in Havana

Sunday, February 28, 2010 HAVANA: Hundreds of wealthy merchants and cigar aficionados from all parts of the world gathered in Havana this week to bid high stakes for humidors full of premium cigars. Cuba's annual Habanos festival ended on Friday night with an auction of ornate humidors of cedar and mahogany stacked with hand-rolled stogies that raised 800,000 euros ($1.09 million dollars). Habanos S.A. executives this month said cigar sales fell 8 percent to $360 million in 2009, so they have created the Julieta, a smaller, milder version of the Romeo y Julieta cigar, aimed specifically at female smokers. Women now make up only 5 to 10 percent of customers for Habanos. But even with the creation of the Julieta, Garcia said Habanos has only modest hopes for 2010 sales, due largely to a weak economy in Spain, the biggest market for Cuban cigars. The flavor of premium tobacco relies on the soil and climate in which it is grown. The western province of Pinar Del Rio, famous fo
Post a Comment
Read more

Cyprus lace to be declared UNESCO cultural heritage

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 NICOSIA: Traditional hand-made lace produced in the Larnaca district village of Lefkara in Cyprus known as lefkaritiko includeded in UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Soseilos said that the relevant UNESCO committee has already decided to include lefkaritiko in its list of the world’s ICH, a more recent addition to UNESCO’s long-standing list of World Heritage sites, and the decision will be formally announced at the UNESCO General Assembly next month. The tradition of needlework and lace embroidery in Lefkara goes back centuries.
Post a Comment
Read more