Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Gold Medal

Semifinals tonight Greece time.


Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS)
$2.25
Sheena Johnson (USA)
$4.25
Jana Pittman (AUS)
$4.75
Fani Halkia (GRE)
$6.50
Lashinda Demus (USA)
$13.00
Brenda Taylor (USA)
$13.00
Athletes Not Quoted
$17.00
Tetyana Tereshcuk-Antipova (UKR)
$26.00
Yekaterina Bikert (RUS)
$51.00
Yekaterina Bakhvalova (RUS)
$101.00
Debbie-Ann Parris (JAM)
$101.00
Androula Sialou (CYP)
$101.00

Still amazed to see Jana in the semis given events of recent past.

Jana has drawn the toughest semi. Includes current world record holder Yuliya Pechenkina (52.34), Sheena Johnson (52.95) & Brenda Taylor (53.36)

Fingers crossed Jana gets through to the final & unscathed.

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Really :lol:



Cheers sportz :smile:

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Sarah ULMER (NZ) won the Women's Individual 3km Pursuit Gold medal race against Katie MACTIER (AUS) in a time of 3:24.537, breaking ULMER's day old world record of 3:26.400, winning NZ'z first ever track Cycling Gold medal. Katie MACTIER
finished with Silver.

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Told you she was a good thing. I got $2.10, but even the price last night was good value. :smile:


[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2004-08-23 10:01 ]

Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Gold Medal (25/8)


Lane 1 Tetiana Tereshcuk-Antipova (UKR)
Lane 2 Brenda Taylor (USA)
Lane 3 Ionela Tirlea-Manolache (ROM)
Lane 4 Fani Halkia (GRE)
Lane 5 Jana Pittman (AUS)
Lane 6 Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS)
Lane 7 Yekaterina Bikert (RUS)
Lane 8 Sheena Johnson (USA)


Great effort by Jana (54.05) to finished 2nd behind Yuliya Pechenkina (53.31) in the 1st semi.

Local Fani Halkia clocked 52.77 (new Olympic record) to win the 2nd semi.


A great final assured. Go Jana!!


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[ This Message was edited by: Paddy on 2004-08-23 07:57 ]

Don't know what odds the greek girl will be after the semi but she looks a great bet.
Easily the best time and did it easy.

Thought Jana and Yuliya Pechenkina a lot up the sleeve in their semi. Fani Halkia most impressive in her semi. Likely tri?

Just updating your medal tally Paddy

China 22 14 10 Total 46
United States 21 21 15 Total 57
Japan 13 6 7 Total 26
Australia 12 8 12 Total 32
Germany 10 9 12 Total 31
France 8 8 7 Total 23
Russia 7 13 16 Total 36


Great Britain 5 7 7 Total 19
NZ 2 0 0 Total 2

Latest market Women's 400m Hurdles Final - Gold Medal (25/8)

Fani Halkia (GRE) - $1.95
Yuliya Pechenkina (RUS) - $2.45
Jana Pittman (AUS) - $6.00
Sheena Johnson (USA) - $21.00
Ionela Tirlea-Manolache (ROM) - $26.00
Tetyana Tereshcuk-Antipova (UKR) - $34.00
Yekaterina Bikert (RUS) - $67.00
Brenda Taylor (USA) - $101.00

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Men's Team Pursuit (Cycling) - Gold Medal Winner

Australia - $1.16
Great Britain - $4.65

The Australian team of Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, Brad McGee & Luke Roberts have set new world & Olympic records on the way to the final & are understandably hot favs for the GOLD. Go Oz!

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