World University Games

Philosophress

The athletics programme of the World University Games in Belgrade has started today.

Claire Bergin and Fiona O'Friel have advanced to the 400m semi-finals
http://results.ub2009.org/results/pdf/AT/AT_C74A_AT1004A0000000ENG.pdf

You can follow live results updates over the next few days from here
http://results.ub2009.org/results/ENG/ZZ/ZZG103A_ATXXXXXXXXXXXXENG.htm

ecoli

Interesting enough the numbers for this event with the women outnumber the men entrants 3-1

Rineanna

Brona Furlong progressed through the 400mh heats with a PB of 57.87.

thirtyfoot

ecoli wrote: »

Interesting enough the numbers for this event with the women outnumber the men entrants 3-1

Good news for the lads at the end of Games banquet;)

Rineanna

Britton safely through 'chase heats in 10.05.xx for second..

thirtyfoot

Tom Carey through in 400H in 52.42, less than 0.5 off his PB!!

Rineanna

And to cap off a good morning, Eileen O' Keefe through to Hammer final.

thirtyfoot

Rineanna wrote: »

And to cap off a good morning, Eileen O' Keefe through to Hammer final.

Are we still on 100% qualification rate?

thirtyfoot

68.08 on her first throw and comfortably through. The form is starting to come. A 69+ in the final would maintain the momentum.

Rineanna

She's gradually getting near the 70m mark. The competition's a lot tougher in this year's WUG, with Betty Heidler, Hrasnova, teh Belarussian and teh Moldovan throwing over 70m too, but we'll see.

Tingle wrote: »

Are we still on 100% qualification rate?

Yes, can't think of anyone who hasn't progressed.

hurdler2009

Joanne Cuddihy qualified as a fastest loser from the heats of the 200m in a bit of a disappointing time of 24.54 earlier. But it's still good to see her back! Joanna patterson failed to qualify with 24.97.
Tom Carey failed to qualify from the 400mh semi when he finished 6th in a time of 52.08.
Brona Furong will take her place in the final of the 400mh in a few minutes! She has done extremely well to make the final...She's shown us that she's a true championship performer after both these games and the European Indoors this season!:D

hurdler2009

Brona Furlong 7th with 58.40 not a bad result for her at all!!:)

thirtyfoot

Hazel Murphy (4:20) and Deirdre Byrne (4:14) both through as automatic qualifiers in the 1500.

Everard up in the 800 but missed out by 0.12 to qualify.

Interesting the number of DCU athletes out there and doing well despite the system apparently not being very good up there;)

thirtyfoot

Ian McDonald through in 14.14. Great reaction time too, 0.142!

thejovialhost

Everard just missed out on qualifying with 1:51:74, was 5th in his heat but would have won some heats with that. In the end just 12 hundredths off last fastest loser qualification

RealistSpy

Does anyone know when its being showed on Eurosports? they have been advertising it.

ecoli

RealistSpy wrote: »

Does anyone know when its being showed on Eurosports? they have been advertising it.

According to listings only for the world youths and the golden league no coverage of the Universities

Pherekydes

Fionnuala Britton was 6th in the Steeple in 9:54.


Interestingly, the men's 200m was won in a European Junior record 20.04 by Ramil Guyilev of Azerbaijan. That makes him second fastest junior of all time behind one U.Bolt.

Rineanna

Ireland finished 4th in the women's 4x400m.

DJS

Pherekydes wrote: »

Interestingly, the men's 200m was won in a European Junior record 20.04 by Ramil Guyilev of Azerbaijan. That makes him second fastest junior of all time behind one U.Bolt.

Awh now, Azerbaijan couldnt be in europe. Is that true?