Van Deventer breaks record, Freitag fifth
Olympic 1 500-m finalist Juan van Deventer smashed his own SA indoor record over the metric mile when he finished second behind Haron Keitany at the Flanders Indoor meeting in Gent, Belgium, on Sunday.Van Deventer had set a national best 3:37.25 on his indoor debut in Dusseldorf on February 3, and on Sunday he improved the mark by 0.29 seconds as he edged another Kenyan, world indoor silver medalist Daniel Kipchirchir Komen, to finish in 2:36.96.
Keitany, who defended the title he won last year, won easily in 3:35.69, while Komen faded to third in 3:37.19.
Former world champion Jacques Freitag equalled his season's best of 2.20m to place fifth in the men's high jump.
Russian Aleksey Dmitrik won with a 2.26m leap while Freitag, who continues his comeback after taking a two-year- break, made it over on his third attempt at 2.20m before failing three times over 2.23m.
Wednesday 17/02/2010
It's ironic how yesterday I put up pictures of bike crashes & then this morning I take a tumble bruising both knees. I couldn't walk after that fall as my legs just went numb, so I ended up limping for a while until the shock left my legs.
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