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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Early Rankings

Some preliminary "computer rankings" for the young season in men's field events...

 

High Jump

1. Ivan Ukhov, RUS

2. Jesse Williams, USA

3. Linus Thornblad, SWE

4. Yaroslav Rybakov, RUS

5. Tora Harris, USA

5. Andrey Tereshin, RUS

7. Aleksandr Shustov, RUS

8. Viktor Shapoval, UKR

8. Andra Manson, USA

10. Raul Spank, GER

 

Pole Vault

1. Steve Hooker, AUS

2. Derek Miles, USA

3. Renaud Lavillenie, FRA

4. Pavel Gerasimov, RUS

5. Tobias Scherbarth, GER

6. Alexander Straub, GER

7. Evgeniy Lukyanenko, RUS

8. Romain Mesnil, FRA

9. Alhaji Jeng, SWE

10. Steven Lewis, GBR

 

Triple Jump

1. Teddy Tamgho, FRA

2. Arnie David Girat, CUB

3. Jadel Gregorio, BRA

4. Momchil Karailev, BUL

5. Alexis Copello, CUB

 

Shot Put

1. Christian Cantwell, USA

2. Adam Nelson, USA

3. Reese Hoffa, USA

4. Tomas Majewski, POL

5. Pavel Sofyin, RUS

 

Pole vault and high jump rankings go deeper because there's been a lot of competition.  The long jump has seen so little that the rankings are essentially meaningless.

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