Western USATF Champs, June 6 – Walnut, California Women’s Report 1-Lisa Galaviz 9:40.02; 2-Kara June 9:54.28; 3-Lois Keller Number 479 – 7 June 2009 10:14.73; 4-Dallon Williams 10:15.41; 5-Jane Rudkin, Team XO 10:16.81; 6-Juliane Masciana 10:22.72; 7-Bethany Nickless Our 14th Year – Readers in 53 nations 10:35.82. [All competitors except Rudkin were unattached. Galaviz ran faster than 9:41.35 meet record by Lindsey Anderson in 2008.] RESULTS, 3000m Distance unless labeled otherwise Distance Carnival, June 6 – Murfreesboro, Tennessee Pfingst Sportsfest , June 1 – Rehlingen, GER 1-Sarah Madebach, USA 10:15.14; 2-Jessica Schmidt, USA 1-Antje Moldner (84) GER 9:27.22; 2-Emebet Etea Bedada (90) 10:53.38; 3-Shavaun Henry, GBR 12:14.82. ETH 9:35.55; 3-Halima Hassen (92) ETH 9:35.89; 4-Lydia Rotich KEN 9:38.67; 5-Milka Chemos KEN 9:42.90; 6-Netsanet Achamo McCain International, May 17 – Loughborough, GBR (87) ETH 9:53.6; 7-Julia Hiller (87) GER 9:55.47; 8-Verena Dreier 1-Tina Brown 10:16.70; 2-Ruth Senior 10:28.30; 3-Nicola (85) GER 9:56.45; 9-Susi Lutz (87) GER 10:02.57; 10- Hood (90-07-06) 10:46.70; 4-Emma Raven 10:54.80; 5-Laura (80) ITA 10:03.43. 11-Carolin Lang (86) GER 10:18.77. [National Parker (90-05-30) 11:02.20 PB. Record for Moldner; National Junior Record for Bedada.] St. Mary's Classic, June 3 – Twickenham, GBR Global athletics meet, May 29 – Nijmegen, NED 2000m Steeple 1-Laura Parker (1990) 6:47.28; 2-Nicola Hood 1-Miranda Boonstra, NED 9:38.40 [National Record and Personal (1990) 6:49.71; 3-Sara Luck (1986) 6:51.57; 4-Rachel Robinson Best] 2-Lydia Rotich, KEN 9:46.13; 3-Milka Chemos, KEN 9:54.32; (1992) 7:12.06; 5-Blue Haywood (1991) 7:15.88; 6-Martha 4-Andrea Deelstra, NED 10:25.22; dnf - Stephanie De Croock, BEL Reynolds (1992) 7:17.62.

Romanian GP Meet, June 5 – Bucharest, ROM British Columbia HS Champs, June 6 - Burnaby, BC 1-Ancuta Bobocel 9:40.83; 2-Cristina Casandra 9:42.73; 3-Andrea 1500m Steeple 1-Laurel Draper, Oak Bay 5:09.25; 2-Samantha David 10:39.63. Walkow, Semiahmoo 5:10.32; 3-Sarah Sawatzki, Sardis 5:11.95; 4-Alycia Butterworth, Ballenas 5:13.32; 5-Maggie Woodward, Oak ECCC Group A, May 30 – Castellon, ESP Bay 5:22.67; 6-Katherine Digby, Kitsilano 5:24.59; 7-Courtney 1-Elena Romagnolo, ITA 9:41.73; 2-Natalya Medvedeva, RUS Roskelley, Oak Bay 5:27.46 [18 finishers; Last = 6:06.95] 9:42.05; 3-Marcela Lustigova, CZE 9:51.19; 4-Rosa Maria Morato, ESP 9:59.36; 5-Clarisse Cruz, POR 10:23.11; 6-Binnaz Uslu, TUR Portland meet offers multiple steeple events June 13 10:58.40. [Personal Bests for Medvedeva and Lustigova] Steeplers who seek qualifying times, to enter USA Junior and

Kuts Memorial, June 6 – Moscow, RUS Open Championships June 25-28 at Eugene, can do so June 13 in 1-Olga Tarantinova 9:58.39 PB; 2- Natalya Nemkina 10:21.56 PB; the nearby Portland (Oregon) Track Festival at the Lewis & Clark 3-Yelena Arzhakova 10:28.51; 4-Natalya Tarantinova 10:31.13 PB; College. The afternoon session has both youth and masters 2000m 5-Yekaterina Shlyakhova 10:38.60. steeple and 3000m open steeple. Evening session has elite women’s 3000m steeple; details for potential entrants (deadline June 10) in Cup, June 4 – Yalta, UKR men section of meet website: http://www.portlandtrack.org/festival/ 1-Valentyna Horpynych 9:58.69; 2-Valeriya Mara 10:10.18; Junior women steeplers can qualify for Eugene nationals with 3-Oksana Ilyutchik 10:13.24; 4-Hanna Peshkova 10:27.09 PB; either a 2000m steeple in 7:25 or 3000m steeple in 11:10. Top two 5-Mariya Shatalova 10:32.95; 6-Iryna Yevochka (91-12-31) 10:59.29 finishers at Eugene qualify for USA team going to Pan-American Junior Championships July 31-August 2 at Trinidad. ECCC Group B, May 31 – Dubnica, SVK ______1-Jolanda Verstraten, NED 10:41.83; 2-Biljana Cvijanovic, BIH At Eugene June 7 steeplers Jenny Barringer and ran 10:45.44 PB; 3-Mareike Schrulle, GER 10:45.52 PB; 4-Meriem 1500m in 3:59.90 and 4:01.44 respectively to rank world 2 nd and 4 th Mered, FRA 10:47.29; 5-Michelle Harvey, IRL 11:00.52. 12 IAAF Scoring Meets include women's steeplechase Hungarian University Champs, May 23 – Veszprem, HUN part of the 2009 IAAF Tour 1-Zita Kacser 10:50.01; 2-Nora Kleiner 11:49.74 [4 finishers; Last = 12:35.12] Grand Prix & meets (highest point-scoring) Mar 05 Grand Prix Melbourne, AUS National University Champs, May 6 – Taipei May 08 Qatar Super Grand Prix Doha, QAT 1-Chien Pei-Yu 11:31.88; 2-Yang Chen-Chi 11:40.93; 3-Su Chi- Jul 10 Golden Gala at Stadio Olimpico Rome, ITA Man 12:08.15. Jul 13 Tsiklitria Athens, GRE

Willemse injured, to miss NCAA, World University Games Jul 25 Aviva Grand Prix at Crystal Palace , GBR Florida State University's Lydia Willemse tore her achilles tendon at Sep 06 Raul Guidobaldi Rieti, ITA

May 31 regional steeple. Surgery and long recovery prevents her going Area Permit Meets (less points earned for placing in events) to NCAA championships next weekend or World University Games at May 10 Caixa/Unifor de Atletismo Fortaleeza, BRA Belgrade (July 7-12) where she was expected to represent Canada May 16 Adidas Track Classic Carson, USA

THANKS to providers of some information for SR 479: Jun 08 Memorial Josef Odlozila Prague, CZE Gyorgy Csiki, Heinrich Hubbeling, IAAF Jul 15 Spitzen Leichtathletik Lucerne, SUI Jul 18 KBC Night of Athletics Heusden-Zolder, BEL About Us Editor: James E. Fields, Ph.D. Sep 01 Palio Citta della Quercia Rovereto, ITA

We have promoted and publicized women’s steeplechase since 1989. At the end of scoring meets season the 11 runners with most points Steeplechase Report , affiliated with no organization, has been distrib- uted free via internet since 1996. For adds to mailing list send name, scored in this event qualify for invitations to Sept. 12-13 “World e-mail address, location [USA city or state; nation for others] and cate- Athletics Final.” The IAAF can choose and include a 12th runner in gory: athlete, coach, journalist, meet director, official, parent, etc. to WAF steeple (1820 hours on Saturday, Sept 12, at Thessaloniki). [email protected] For changes, send new and old address. Note: Steeple results were not reported from Melbourne GP meet.