USA vs. USSR Dual Meet--2004 Women

[roger/over]

If you missed the earlier posts of men's "results" for a 2004 virtual USA/USSR dual, this is just a fun exercise of looking at how the highly popular dual meets of the 50s and 60s might have turned out, based on personal bests in last year's outdoor season.

United States of America vs. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Dual Meet--2004 Women
(USA vs. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan)

Two athletes per team for each event, scoring 5-3-2-1.

100 meters:
1. Yuliya Nesterenko BLR 10.92
2. Lauryn Williams USA 10.96
3. LaTasha Colander USA 10.97
4. Yuliya Tabakova RUS 11.10

USA 5, USSR 6


100 meters Hurdles:
1. Joanna Hayes USA 12.37
2. Yelena Kraskova UK 12.45
3. Gail Devers USA 12.50
4. Mariya Koroteyeva RUS 12.60

USA 7, USSR 4 (After two events: USA 12, USSR 10)


Hammer Throw:
1. Olga Kuzenkova RUS 75.02
2. Olga Tsander BLR 74.72
3. Erin Gilbreath USA 73.12
4. Anna Mahon USA 70.88

USA 3. USSR 8 (After three events: USA 15, USSR 18)


400 meters:
1. Monique Hennegan USA 49.56
2. Natalya Nazarova RUS 49.65
3. Natalya Antyukh RUS 49.85
4. Sayna Richards USA 49.89

USA 6, USSR 5 (After four events: USA 21, USSR 23)


Shot Put:
1. Irina Korzhanenko RUS 20.79
2. Svetlana Krivelyova RUS 20.69
3. Kristin Heaston USA 18.66
4. Laura Gerraghty USA 18.54

USA 3, USSR 8 (After five events: USA 24, USSR 31)


10,000 meters:
1. Lidiya Grigoryeva RUS 31:01.15
2. Jelena Prokopcuka LAT 31:04.10
3. Deena Kastor USA 31:09.65
4. Kate O'Niell USA 31:34.37

USA 3, USSR 8 (After six events: USA 27, USSR 39)

Pole Vault:
1. Yelena Isinbayeva RUS 4.92
2. Svetlana Feofanova RUS 4.88
3. Stacy Dragila USA 4.83
4. Kellie Suttle USA 4.67

USA 3, USSR 8 (After seven events: USA 30, USSR 47)


Long Jump:
1. Tatyana Lebedeva RUS 7.33
2. Irina Simagina RUS 7.27
3. Marion Jones USA 7.11
4. Grace Upshaw USA 6.84

USA 3, USSR 8 (After eight events: USA 33, USSR 55)


20 kilometer Walk:
1. Olimpiada Ivanova RUS 1:26:54
2. Yelena Nikolayeva RUS 1:27:24
3. Michelle Rohl USA 1:34:24
4. Teresa Vaill USA 1:34:32

USA 3, USSR 8 (After nine events: USA 36, USSR 63)


4 x 100m Relay:

1. USA
Lauryn Williams 10.96
LaTasha Colander 10.97
Marion Jones 11.04
Inger Miller 11.05

2. USSR
Yuliya Nesterenko (BLR) 10.92
Yuliya Tabakova (RUS) 11.10
Lyubov Perepelova (UZB) 11.17
Irina Khabarova (RUSP 11.21

USA 5, USSR 3 (After ten events: USA 41, USSR 66)

--End of Day 1--


Unfortunate, that the score wasn't closer at the end of Day 1: The 4 x 100 would have had every fan on his/her feet, screaming. Yes, I do know that teams don't run in the order fastest-slowest, but since the "virtual dual" is all a fantasy anyway, I guess I can run them that way for the fun of it. That would have the USA leading by .04 seconds at the first exchange, obviously from the stands dead even. At the second exchange, the USA lead has increased to .17 seconds: I think that margin, too, can't be seen, given the stagger. Jones boosts the lead another .13, and it's only in the run at the tape, with Inger gaining another sixth of a second over Khabarova, that the U.S. margin of victory, less than half a second, becomes apparent.

[Powervaulter]

Wow... quite a different story on the women's side! I'd be interested to see how this turns out on day 2.

[roger/over]

Hi, Andy:

For some reason, your comment reminds me of the kindergarten teacher who had her class busy, drawing pictures of "anything you want." She noticed one little girl concentrating furiously and asked what she was drawing. The girl said, "It's a picture of God."

"But honey," the teacher responded, "no one knows what God looks like."

And the little girl replied, "They will when I finish this."

--I'm not sure the final picture of Day 2 is worth the wait!

BTW--Thanks much, for all you do for our favorite sport in Canada!

[roger/over]

USA vs. USSR 2004 Virtual Dual--Day Two

200 meters:
1. Allyson Felix USA 22.18
2. Tonette Dyer USA 22.34
3. Irina Khabarova RUS 22.34
4. Yuliya Tabakova RUS 22.51

(If you may wonder how I broke the tie between Dyer and Khabarova, instead of carrying the fractional points forward for the rest of this compilation, it was on the basis of second-best mark for each during the 2004 season: 22.78 for Dyer, 22.84 for Khabarova.)

USA 8, USSR 3 (After eleven events: USA 49, USSR 69)


800 meters:
1. Tatyana Andrianova RUS 1:56.23
2. Natalya Khrushchelyova RUS 1:56.59
3. Jearl Miles-Clark USA 1:57.27
4. Nicole Teter USA 1:58.52

USA 3, USSR 8 (After twelve events: USA 52, USSR 77)


400 meters Hurdles:
1. Sheena Johnson USA 52.95
2. Yuliya Pechonkina RUS 53.31
3. Brenda Taylor USA 53.36
4. Tatyana Antipova UKR 53.37

USA 7, USSR 4 (After thirteen events: USA 59, USSR 81)


Discus Throw:
1. Irina Yatchenko BLR 69.14
2. Natalya Sadova RUS 68.63
3. Aretha Hill USA 65.86
4. Suzy Powell USA 63.58

USA 3, USSR 8 (After fourteen events: USA 62, USSR 89)


High Jump:
1. Yelena Slesarenko RUS 2.06
2. Viktoriya Styopina UKR 2.02
3. Amy Acuff USA 2.00
4. Tisha Waller USA 1.98

USA 3, USSR 8 (After fifteen events: USA 65, USSR 97)


1500 meters:
1. Natalya Yevdokimova RUS 3:59.05
2. Gulnara Samitova RUS 4:01.29
3. Carrie Tollefson USA 4:06.13
4. Shayne Culpepper USA 4:06.33

USA 3, USSR 8 (After sixteen events: USA 68, USSR 105)


Triple Jump:
1. Tatyana Lebedeva RUS 15.34
2. Anna Pyatykh RUS 14.85
3. Tiombe Hurd USA 14.45
4. Vanitta Kinard USA 14.13

USA 3, USSR 8 (After seventeen events: USA 71, USSR 113)


3,000 meters Steeplechase:
1. Gulnara Samitova RUS 9:01.59
2. Lyubov Ivanova RUS 9:28.02
3. Briana Shook USA 9:29.32
4. Ann Gaffigan USA 9:39.35

USA 3, USSR 8 (After eighteen events: USA 74, USSR 121)


Javelin Throw:
1. Valeriya Zabruskova RUS 63.84
2. Tatyana Lyakhovich UKR 63.07
3. Kim Kreiner USA 58.68
4. Serena Ross USA 57.25

USA 3, USSR 8 (After nineteen events: USA 77, USSR 129)


5,000 meters:
1. Liliya Shobukhova RUS 14:52.19
2. Gulnara Samitova RUS 14:53.70
3. Marla Runyan USA 14:59.20
4. Amy Rudolph USA 15:00.03

USA 3, USSR 8 (After twenty events: USA 80, USSR 137)


4 x 400 meters Relay:

1. United States
Monique Hennegan 49.56
Sanya Richards 49.89
Dee Dee Trotter 50.00
Michelle Collins 50.02

2. Soviet Union
Natalya Navarova (RUS) 49.56
Natalya Antyukh (RUS) 49.85
Tatyana Firovia (RUS) 50.44
Olesya Zykina (RUS) 50.44

USA 5, USSR 3 (FINAL SCORE: USA 85, USSR 140)


And, BTW if you wondered why my posts showed 21 events, including relays, for the women and only 20 for the men: shame on you, for being picky-picky. Although I wondered about that, too. When I went back over my tabulations, I found that I had shown the total for the men after the PV as that after seven events, and also after the following LJ as again after seven events. Sorry about that: I think maybe there's something just not quite right about my lastest batch of home-bottled Merlot.

I'm not sure I've given as much credit as I should to Mirko Jalava's website <tilastopaja.net> for use of the data in his 2004 world deep lists. Once or twice, I had to dig deeper than the top 100 to find third and fourth places, and of course they were there, since Mirko's lists usually go 500 or more deep. Also, although I received my copy of Peter Matthews' ATFS/IAAF 2005 Athletics Annual after I'd already compiled the basic data from tilastopaja, I found Peter's athletes indexes invaluable for checking the spelling of athletes' names when I couldn't read the handwriting in my notes. If there still are errors to be found in the spellings, help me to blame it on the faulty batch of Merlot.

Cheers,
Roger

[Powervaulter]

Roger,

Am I supposed to be the kindergarten teacher or student?

Anyway, I found this virtual competition very interesting. When you put the men and women's scores together, it comes out with USSR ahead by 20 points over USA (235 - 215). I guess I found that a little surprising. It was not what I expected.

One trend I noticed (more on the women's side than on the men's) was that the USA did very well in sprinting events, but not as well in distance and field events. I wonder if national governing bodies in track and field consider data like this in developing programs.

With the USSR split into smaller countries, there isn't as much competition for the USA for overall points. Any idea which country is closest competition with the USA for overall points?

[LHSpolevault]

Roger, once again... awesome job with the women's dual meet! Surprising result, had no idea the USSR women would have won by that much.


I wonder how a USA vs. World meet would turn out haha.