Bislett games 2008

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Trinidad and Tobago's Marc Burns placed third in Dibaba, a double world 10,metre champion, clocked a fabulous 14 minutes Kenya's Lucy Kabuu Wangui The new time smashes - by more than five seconds - the previous record of In the men's metres, in which the world-number-one Jeremy Wariner, of the United States, returned to winning form, Bahamian Chris Brown posted a career-best run and national record for second spot. Brown, the Pan Am Games champion, lowered his personal best time from Costa Rica's Nery Brenes was third in The Caribbean enjoyed another top-three finish through Jamaican Danny McFarlane in the men's metre hurdles.

The Olympic silver medallist led entering the straightaway and clocked a personal season's best Bookmark Jamaica-Gleaner. Lead Stories. Let's Talk Life. Saturday Features. In , the European Athletics Championships were held at Bislett. Between and , a number of different organisers staged the meetings, and the meetings had a variety of names. During this period, Bislett's collection of official world records increased from 14 to No less than 65 world records have been set at the stadium.

Adding the 4 junior world records brings the total to Go to the Stadium section to get a list of all the 69 world records. On several occasions, the meetings produced large financial deficits.

Considerable financial means was used to attract the best athletes, and the weather wasn't always cooperative. Hoping that they by joining forces and splitting the risks could work on a much larger scale than before, the three athletics associations BUL, Vidar and Tjalve in formed the Bislett Alliance.

In , Tjalve staged its anniversary event, where Ron Clarke of Australia set a new world record in the 10,m, and from onwards the Bislett Alliance has been organising the Bislett Games. In the first years, there were two meetings a year, but then just one meeting in the summer. World records were broken on a regular basis, and Bislett and the games became known all over the world.

In , the magazine Sports Illustrated ranked Bislett stadium as the fifth best sports venue of the 20th century. In , more meetings were added to the series and it changed its name to the Golden League. The very first Golden League meeting was held at Bislett on 9 July and the last one on 3 July As of the season, a new athletics World Series was set up, called the Diamond League.

Arne Haukvik became the driving force behind the Bislett Alliance meetings. As a keen member of the Bondeungdomslaget BUL , he had taken part in the organising of athletics meeting since his return from the United States in It was also Arne Haukvik who started the tradition with the strawberry parties. Haukvik was Ron Clarke's manager and had much contact with the Australian.

Clark brought his family over to Europe when he was running there, and since they had children of the same age, Haukvik invited Clark and his family into his home.

There he served strawberry with cream - a traditional Norwegian summer dish. And the journalists who came to talk to Clark were of course given the same treatment. Little by little the strawberry party became an official press meeting for athletes, journalists and everyone that held positions in athletics, small and big celebrities. Arne Haukvik passed away in and did not got to see the great new stadium that opened 29 July in The new stadium brought new possibilities and the spectators and the athletes had much better facilities than before, and the interest in the meeting reached new heights.

The quality of the meeting at the new stadium, was if possible, even better than before. The biggest international athletics series are held in Europe, whereas many of the biggest stars come from outside of Europe. The interest in athletics is increasing all over the world, not the least after the Olympic Games in Beijing in The sport of athletics is in the lucky position that we have a new sprinter who has taken the world by storm, Usain Bolt.

We are now at the end of the nineteenth century. In , the municipality of Oslo bought 60, m2 from the brick works in order to provide an area for sports and games for the north eastern part of the town. Obadele Thompson BAR.

Wilfred Bungei KEN. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi RSA. Glody Dube BOT. Kjetil Hodnekvam NOR. William Yiampoy KEN. Bernard Lagat KEN. Noah Ngeny KEN. Laban Rotich KEN. Craig Mottram AUS. Robert Rono KEN. Paul Bitok KEN. Benjamin Limo KEN. John Kibowen KEN. Luke Kipkosgei KEN. Sammy Kipketer KEN.

Mark Carroll IRL. Marius Bakken NOR. Allen Johnson USA. Terrence Trammell USA.