Hypomeeting 2008 without Sebrle and Clay

A small correction:

I wanted to say "ranked from 2nd to 9th at the WC 2007 in Osaka"

News about Götzis 2008:


Russians have to qualifiy for Olympics in Götzis:

http://www.leichtathletik.de/index.php/?NavID=1&Si...


22 decathletes with a PB of 8000 and 30 heptathletes with a PB of 6000 (11 more than 6300) should come.


Some of the names are mentioned in the article.

does anyone have a list of competitors that will be competing at Gotzis?

I think there isn't a final list of competitors so far. On the meeting homepage they write that the athletes will be listed one week before the meeting. Maybe earlier on IAAF.


The following should be sure:


M. Smith

D. Karpov

A. Drozdov

A. Niklaus

A. Sysoyev

R. Barras

Y. Garcia

A. Abele


A. Kravchenko


A. Pogorelov


N. Müller

P. Behrenbruch

J. Minah

Interview with Konrad Lerch:


http://video.vol.at/members.VOL_Live/flv-20080505_...


If it does not work directly please go to


http://www.vol.at/news/tp:volpecial_moesle_aktuell/artikel/starterfelder-fuer-34-hypo-meeting-fixiert/cn/news-20080505-03014077/gemeinde/goetzis

(it is the same article which I've mentioned already)


an click on "Lerch"

Nicklas Wiberg from Sweden has confirmed in his website that Götzis HypoMeeting will be his main target for the first half of the year.

Roland Schwarzl who pulled out in Desenzano after 9 events will compete in Götzis. At least according to Vorarlberg online news dated before Multistars on the 8th of May.

From Estonians to Götzis - most probably Andres Raja.

On Eugene Martineau's homepage you can see an advertisement of the Hypomeeting 2008.

http://www.martineau.nl


So maybe this does mean that he will compete (?)

Unfortunately Roland Schwarzl had to withdraw from the Hypomeeting in Götzis:


http://www.oelv.at/news/detail.php/?id=2219


http://www.roland-schwarzl.com/news/pressestatemen...

There will be a Canadian attending this year as well. We have only ever had a small handful of Canadian men represented there, so it is pretty exciting for us. His name is Massimo Bertocchi - look for him in the 400m (pb 47.47sec, 2008) and the PV (pb 5.00, 2008). His deca pb is 7963pts from April of this year.

The Götzis start list is now online. In decathlon the following 27 will participate:


Smith Maurice JAM

Karpov Dmitriy KAZ

Drozdov Aleksey RUS

Niklaus Andre GER

Sysoyev Aleksey RUS

Pogorelov Aleksandr RUS

Garcia Yordani CUB

Abele Arthur GER

Müller Norman GER

Behrenbruch Pascal GER

Gourmet Francois BEL

Van-Alphen Hans BEL

Parkhomenko Aleksandr BLR

Shubianok Mikalai BLR

Chinin Carlos Eduardo BRA

Bertocchi Massimo CAN

Suarez Leonel CUB

Karas Josef CZE

Raja Andres EST

Minah Jacob GER

Sepehrzad Hadi IRI

Bernard Claston JAM

Erins Edgars LAT

Martineau Eugene NED

Vasilyev Arkady RUS

Gervasi David SUI

Wiberg Nicklas SWE

Finally ...


so we can publish predictions, like


- Who will win in Götzis?

- What will be the winners score?

- How many 8000ers we will se

- What will be the sum of the top 8?



For those of you, who can receive ORF Sport Plus (DVB-S, DVB-T): you can see the meeting live on television:


Transponder 115


Downlink-Frequenz 12,66275 GHz


Symbolrate (MS/s): 22000


Fehlerschutz (FEC): 5/6


Polarisation: Horizontal



http://tv.orf.at/program/orfsportplus/20080531/433...

http://tv.orf.at/program/orfsportplus/20080601/433...

Does anybody know the reason why Kravchenko isn't on the entry list?

So now there are only 26 participants left as Andres Raja cannot enter due to training injury. (As posted by Janek in the Estonian language forum.)

Kravchenko was my fav and I don't know very much about Smith's shape (can he do like he did in Osaka?).

So my predictions are (conservative as always):


Karpov 8501

Smith 8430

Niklaus 8405

Drozdov 8362

Sysoyev 8350

Pogorelov 8276

Müller 8267

Behrenbruch 8248

Abele 8239


Maybe a little bit more the next days ...


--> close between 1st and 5th (ca. 150 pts)

--> very close between 6th and 9th (ca. 40 pts)


I calculated around 14 8000pointers, so if we expect that 2 will drop out, we should see about 12.


Sum of top8: 66839 (less than last year and Osaka) for those of you who know Hans van Kuijen's book)

Maybe I forgot Garcia, but as I do for Smith, I'm not sure that he will confirm the result of Osaka already in Götzis.



In the internet you can review a local news magazin called "Vorarlberg heute" for one week. On saturday and sunday they should show a little bit from Götzis:


try

http://your.orf.at/vbgwebcam/vheute/ondemand.php

or

http://your.orf.at/bheute/player.php/?id=vbg

choose

Samstag, 31.05.2008 and

Sonntag, 01.06.2008

Based on day 1 and my predictions the result at the end may be:


Karpov 8479

Drozdov 8414

Pogorelov 8313

Smith 8300

Behrenbruch 8294

Sysoyev 8255

Abele 8223

Niklaus 8154

Suarez 8137


(I did not adjust my predictions for day 2)

i do not understand what happened to karpovs javelin i think overall besides athens '04 this was one of his better decathlons besides his javelin.


Is he injured or something b'c i know smith has elbow problems.