Kladno Meeting

Results after 1st day :

1. Roman Šebrle (4218)

2. Larbi Bourada (4202)

3. Maurice Smith (4199)

4. Brent Newdick (4114)

5. Dmitri Karpov (4092).

bad conditions on the first day - so the scores are ok I think. And it's a pretty close race so far - but I think Sebrle is going to win.


What was wrong with Karpov? I read he was recovering from an injury..


By the way: some missing guys (Krauchanka, Pogorelov, Barras..) on the teams for the European Cup of Combined Events this weekend. Especially the first League Teams look quite good.

bad conditions on 2nd day too, weak DT and PV for Sebrle, so Smith won:


Smith 8157 (10.88 - 725 - 14.67 - 197 - 48.35 - 14.09 - 51.45 - 470 - 53.14 - 4:46.43)

Sebrle 8058 (11.15 - 7.66 - 14.76 - 206 - 50.72 - 14.43 - 43.54 - 460 - 63.56 - 4:52.90)

Karpov 8029 (11.07 - 697 - 16.02 - 200 - 50.64 - 14.63 - 50.79 - 490 - 55.89 - 4:53.23).


Fourth place went to New Zealander Brent Newdick who improved his PB to 7849 points


Karpov's 490 in PV and 55.89 in JT are not bad, even in bad conditions.

Hm!


Karpov reaches 5.30 in in PV Götzis last year


But ok, if the weather is bad...

Karpov actually cleared 5m30 in Götzis last year, but 2008 was by far his best year in PV (indoors 5m15 and 5m20) his other results in 2007/2008 have been between 4m90 and 5m05!

So I think after recovering from an injury AND in bad conditions 4m90 is good.

Or relatively: 30cm more than Sebrle is "between normal and good"