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Kulft betters heptathlon mark

KINGSTON JULY 21. Carolina Kluft of Sweden bettered a 19-year-old world junior heptathlon record on the penultimate day of the ninth World junior athletics championships here on Saturday.

Carolina talled 6470 points, bettering the old record by five points.

The old mark, set in the Austrian town of Schwechat, on August 28, 1983, stood in the name of GDR's Sibylle Thielle. Carolina had a personal best of 6272 points going into these championships.

The sheer superiority of the Swedish girl, who successfully defended her title, was evident in the score of 5727 that the second-placed Kazakh girl, Olga Alekseyeva compiled.

Croatia had a profitable day as its athletes won the golds in women's high jump and hammer, to add to the men's shot put gold won earlier, while Kenya, expectedly, made it a one-two in the men's 3000m steeplechase.

Ethiopian Gebre-egziabher Gebremarian made up for his disappointment in the 5000m earlier, when he ended up with the bronze, won the 10,000 gold after a keen battle with teammate Sileshi Sihine.

The results: Men: 10,000m: 1. Gebre-egziabher Gebremarian (Eth) 29:02.71, 2. Sileshi Sihine (Eth) 29:03.74, 3. Solomon Bushendich (Ken) 29:05.96; 3000m steeplechase: 1. Michael Kipyego (Ken) 8:29.54, 2. David Kirwa (Ken) 8:31.44, 3. Ali Kamal Abubaker (Qat) 8:33.67; Triple jump: 1. David Giralt (Cub) 16.68m, 2. Li Yanxi (Chn) 16.66, 3.Aleksandr Sergeyev (Rus) 16.55.

Women: High jump: 1. Blanka Vlasic (Cro) 1.96m, 2. Anna Ksok (Pol) 1.87, 3. Petrina Price (Aus) 1.87; Shot put: 1. Valerie Adams (Nzl) 17.73m, 2. Zhang Ying (Chn) 16.76, 3. Laura Gerraughty (USA) 16.62; Hammer: 1. Ivana Brkljacic (Cro) 65.39m, 2. Martina Danisova (Svk) 63.91, 3. Yuliya Rozenfeld (Rus) 60.83; Heptathlon: 1. Carolina Kluft (Swe) 6470 (World junior record, old 6465), 2. Olga Alekseyeva (Kaz) 5727, 3. Olga Levenkova (Rus) 5712.

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