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"The women’s event was close to a replay of the Olympic heptathlon as seven of the top eight athletes were at the start this weekend in Talence.
The 100m Hurdles became a show of the USA hurdling specialists, Hyleas Fountain and Gigi Johnson. They both broke the 13 seconds mark, with Fountain first in 12.90, followed by Gigi Johnson in 12.98, who missed an Olympic appearance after she finished fourth at the US trials in Eugene. Fountain’s winning time was an improvement of the 20-yearold stadium record set by Liliana Nastase.
In the High Jump Fountain improved upon her result from Beijing by four centimetres with a 1.85m leap. She was followed by Sotherton, Anna Boganova, Anne Melnychenko and Marie Collonvillé, who all scaled 1.82. The Olympic bronze medallist, Tatyana Chernova, who has a PB of 1.87 in this event, did only cleared 1.70 and lost a lot of points to her opponents. She dropped in the intermediate standings to 12th position.
After 2 events: 1. Fountain 2181, 2. Sotherton 2084, 3. Bogdanova 2046
Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska showed her strength again in the Shot Put. This time her best effort was 16.35, almost two metres ahead of Sotherton, who had her best ever result in this event in a Heptathlon. Fountain had a very poor result of 12.10, losing more than 100 points compared with her result in Beijing. Dobrynska improved from sixth place after two events to first place after Shot Put.
After 3 events: 1. Dobrynska 2933, 2. Sotherton 2909, 3. Fountain 2849
In the 200m the winning time in the third heat was supported by a wind of 3.5 m/s. Sotherton and Karolina Tyminska crossed the finish line in this heat in the same time of 23.46, followed by Fountain in 23.55. From the Olympic participants only Sotherton could improve her first day result from Beijing. Taking into consideration her weak Long Jump result in Beijing she is still able to improve her best Heptathlon record from 2005.
After 4 events: 1. Sotherton 3942, 2. Fountain 3873, 3. Dobrynska 3833"
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