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World 800m bronze medallist Jenny Meadows took second at the Russian Winter meet in Moscow in a season's best of 2:00.71
JENNY MEADOWS took second in the 800m at this afternoon's Russian Winter meet in Moscow. The world 800m bronze medallist set a season's best of 2:00.71 but Meadows was no match for the European indoor champion Mariya Savinova, who stormed to the win in a world-leading mark of 1:59.23.
World and Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva opened her season with an emphatic win. The multiple world record-holder cleared 4.60m, 4.75m and 4.85m at her attempts to improve Brazil's Fabiana Murer's world-leading mark from 4.81m, before two unsuccessful attempts at 5.01m and another failure at another would-be world record height of 5.02m.
Yuliya Golubchikova took second with 4.70m while former world champion Svetlana Feofanova finished third with a 4.60m clearance.
European junior champion Darya Klishina made a noteworthy breakthrough as the 19-year-old set a PB and world-leading mark of 6.87m in the long jump.
Fresh from a 2.35m clearance in Arnstadt, Ivan Ukhov took victory in the high jump with a clearance of 2.32m but the European indoor champion needed three efforts to clear 2.20m.
Yuriy Borzakovskiy was made to work hard in the 600m but the former Olympic champion narrowly prevailed. The European indoor champion clocked 1:16.02, defeating Olympic silver medallist Ahmed Ismail by one-tenth while current Olympic 800m champion Wilfred Bungei took third in 1:17.36.
Yuliya Katsura won the 60m in 7.20 while Joice Maduaka was fifth in the heats in 7.41.
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