USA/RUS/CHN Triangular--2004 Men

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UNITED STATES-RUSSIA-CHINA VIRTUAL TRIANGULAR MEET--2004 Men

Last month, a contributor to PoleVaultPower.com invited discussion of the China/Russian agreement on mutual assistance in preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games. If you missed this earlier, Bill Briggs' article can still be read at <http://www.denverpost.com/ci_2811052?rss>. A comment by USATF CEO Craig Masback can be read on the association's website--http://www.usatf.org/news/view.aspx?DUid=USATF_2005_06_25_19_38_20 A suggestion forwarded to PVP was that the USATF should take advantage of the opportunity to challenge Russia and China to a triangular meet. What follows is a compilation of how the results of such a meet might look, based on best performances by athletes of the three countries in the 2004 outdoor season.

When I asked for suggestions on how such a meet should be scored, Randy Treadway responded, on t-and-f darkwing, that IAAF rules say the scoring can be whatever the competing teams agree upon. Randy suggested scoring 7-5-3-1 as that often used in triangular meets. Another reader remembered a university triangular meet that involved two athletes from each team for individual events, the first four places scoring 5-3-2-1 and the relays 5-3-1. I liked that format, since it recognizes the special status of the winner meriting a greater points differential than between the other places and leaves opportunity for a team that doesn't field competitive representatives to be completely shut out of the event scoring. That is the model I've chosen for these posts of men's and women's "virtual" triangular meets.

Most of the data are drawn from Mirko Jalava's world deep lists at <tilastopaja.net>. Fortunately those lists are very deep, since often some of the lower-placing athletes were not included in top-100 rankings. (The top Chinese men in the 1500m rankings weren't in the top 300!) Comments and corrections, as always, are much appreciated. --RR

100 Meters:

1. Justin Gatliin USA 9.85
2. Maurice Green USA 9.87
3. Shen Yunbao CHN 10.23
4. Andrey Yepiskin RUS 10.25
Sergey Bychkov RUS 10.26
Liu Yang CHN 10.29

USA 8, RUS 1, CHN 2


110 Meters Hurdles:

1. Liu Xiang CHN 12.91
2. Allen Johnson USA 13.05
3. Terrence Trammell USA 13.09
4. Yevegniy Peckonkin RUS 13.46
Sergey Chepinga RUS 13.49
Shi Dongpeng CHN 13.50

USA 5, RUS 1, CHN 5
(After two events: USA 13, RUS 2, CHN 7)


Hammer Throw:

1. Ilya Konovalov RUS 80.34
2. A. G. Kruger USA 79.26
3. James Parker USA 79.20
4. Sergey Kirmasov RUS 78.84
Ye Kuigang CHN 71.72
Wang Zhen CHN 69.17

USA 5, RUS 6, CHN 0
(After three events: USA 18, RUS 8, CHN 7)


400 Meters:

1. Jeremy Wariner USA 44.00
2. Otis Harris USA 44.16
3. Anton Galkin RUS 44.83
4. Oleg Mishukov RUS 45.55
Wang Liangyu CHN 46.31
Wang Youxin CHN 46.73

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After four events: USA 26, RUS 11, CHN 7)


Shot Put:

1. Christian Cantwell USA 22.54
2. John Godina USA 21.71
3. Ivan Cushkov RUS 20.55
4. Aleksandr Salnikov RUS 20.13
Jia Peng CHN 19.33
Tian Yingchun CHN 18.99

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After five events: USA 34, RUS 14, CHN 7)


10,000 Meters:

1. Mebrahtom Keflezhi USA 27:24.10
2. Abdi Abdirahman USA 27:34.24
3. Sergey Yemelyanov RUS 28:18.96
4. Aleksandr Vasilyev RUS 28:28.18
Han Gang CHN 29:01.65
Hou Yanmin CHN 29:03.64

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After six events: USA 42, RUS 17, CHN 7)


Pole Vault:

1. Tim Mack USA 6.01
2. Toby Stevenson USA 6.00
3. Igor Pavlov RUS 5.80
4. Pavel Gerasimov RUS 5.75
Liu Feilang CHN 5.55
Zhang Hongwei CHN 5.50

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After seven events: USA 50, RUS 20, CHN 7)


Long Jump:

1. Dwight Phillips USA 8.60
2. John Moffitt USA 8.47
3. Vitaliy Shkuriatov RUS 8.21
4. Kiril Sosunov RUS 8.21
Zhou Can CHN 8.11
Cai Peng CHN 7.95

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After eight events: USA 58, RUS 23, CHN 7)


20 Kilometers Walk:

1. Vladimir Stankin RUS 1:17:23
2. Vladimir Parvatkin RUS 1:18:18
3. Han Yucheng CHN 1:19:30
4. Liu Yunfeng CHN 1:20:06
Tim Seaman USA 1:22:02
John Nunn USA 1:22.31

USA 0, RUS 8, CHN 3
(After nine events: USA 58, RUS 31, CHN 10)


4 x 100 Meters Relay

1. United States
Justin Gatlin 9.85
Maurice Green 9.87
Shawn Crawford 9.88
John Capel 9.88

2. Russia
Andrey Yepishin 10.25
Sergey Bychkov 10.26
Aleksandr Ryabov 10.28
Leonard Korykov 10.39

3. China
Shen Yunbao 10.23
Liu Yang 10.29
Hu Kai 10.29
He Jun 10.31

USA 5, RUS 3, CHN 1
(After ten events: USA 63, RUS 34, CHN 11)

--End of Day One--

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So pumped to see Day 2 results! Roger comes thru big again with his searching abilities lol... awesome!

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Virtual triangular meet, based on 2004 seasonal bests:

(Scores at the end of day one: USA 63, RUS 34, CHN 11)

200 Meters:

1. Shawn Crawford USA 19.79
2. Justin Gatlin USA 20.01
3. Oleg Sergeyev RUS 20.51
4. Yang Yaozu CHN 20.59
Shen Yunbao CHN 20.63
Sergey Bychkov RUS 20.68

USA 8, RUS 2, CHN 1
(After eleven events: USA 71, RUS 36, CHN 12)


800 Meters:

1. Yuriy Borzakovskiy RUS 1:43.92
2. Jonathon Johnson USA 1:44.77
3. Khaldevis Robinson USA 1:44.89
4. Dmitriy Bogdanov RUS 1:45.04
Chi Yinan CHN 1:48.61
Li Guangming CHN 1:49.06

USA 5, RUS 6, CHN 0
(After twelve events: USA 76, RUS 42, CHN 12)


400 Meters Hurdles:

1. James Carter USA 47.68
2. Angelo Taylor USA 48.03
3. Boris Gorban RUS 48.75
4. Mikhail Lipskiy RUS 48.97
Meng Yan CHN 49.84
Cui Song CHN 50.55

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After thirteen events: USA 84, RUS 45, CHN 12)


Discus:

1. Jarred Roma USA 67.57
2. Carl Brown USA 66.57
3. Wu Tao CHN 63.62
4. Vyacheslav Ivashkin RUS 61.09
Aleksandr Borichevskiy RUS 61.07
Tulake Nuermaimaiti CHN 60.45

USA 8, RUS 1, CHN 2
(After fourteen events: USA 92, RUS 46, CHN 14)



High Jump:

1. Jamie Nieto USA 2.34
2. Matt Hemingway USA 2.34
3. Vyacheslav Voronin RUS 2.32
4. Yaroslav Rybakov RUS 2.32
Hu Tong CHN 2.27
Liu Yang CHN 2.27

--An interesting situation, where each of the national pairs shared a seasonal best. I broke the "ties" on the basis of seasonal second-best marks: Nieto 2.33m, Hemingway 2.30m; Voronin 2.31m, Rybakov 3.30m; Tong 2.25m, Yang 2.24m.

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After fifteen events: USA 100, RUS 49, CHN 14)


1500 Meters:

1. Alan Webb USA 3:32.73
2. Charlie Gruber USA 3:34.48
3. Vyscheslav Shabunin RUS 3:35.48
4. Aleksandr Krivchonkov RUS 3:38.00
Li Yan CHN 3:43:65
Yang Anyue CHN 3:44.35

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After sixteen events: USA 108, RUS 52, CHN 14)


Triple Jump:

1. Melvin Lister USA 17.78
2. Danila Burkenya RUS 17.68
3. Walter Davis USA 17.63
4. Viktor Gushchinskiy RUS 17.22
Li Yanxi CHN 17.09
Zhu Shujing CHN 16.82

USA 7, RUS 4, CHN 0
(After seventeen events: USA 115, RUS 56, CHN 14)


3,000 Meters Steeplechase:

1. Daniel Lincoln USA 8:15.02
2. Anthony Farnigliette USA 8:17.91
3. Roman Usov RUS 8:23.90
4. Pavel Potapovich RUS 8:30.60
Liang Xiao CHN 8:39.51
Ma Yinghu CHN 8:41.61

USA 8, RUS 3, CHN 0
(After eighteen events: USA 123, RUS 59, CHN 14)


Javelin:

1. Aleksandr Ivanov RUS 87.73
2. Breaux Greer USA 87.67
3. Sergey Makarov RUS 86.19
4. Li Rongxiang CHN 83.32
Leigh Smith USA 81.67
Chen Oi CHN 81.38

USA 3, RUS 7, CHN 1
(After nineteen events: USA 126, RUS 66, CHN 15)


4 x 400m Relay:

1. United States
Jeremy Wariner 44.00
Otis Harris 44.16
Derrick Brew 44.42
Darold Williamson 44.51

2. Russia
Anton Galkin 44.89
Oleg Mishukov 45.55
Andrey Rudnitskiy 45.80
Yevgeniy Lebedev 46.06

3. China
Wang Liangyu 46.31
Wang Youxin 46.73
Tan Biao 46.90
Jiang Bo 47.05

USA 5, RUS 3, CHN 1

FINAL SCORES: USA 131, RUS 69, CHN 16