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Golden age beckons Ottey, Kersee
TOKYO. Aug 23: A golden age beckons for Jamaican sprinter Mcrlene Ottey and American all-rounder Jackie Joyncr-Kersec. two mature campaigners ready to domi nate the women's events al the World Athletics Champion -ships, reports Reuter
Al a time of their lives when most of their competitors have retired, the Occtfooted Ottey and multi-talented Joy-ner-Kcrsce are aiming for two gold medals apiece, a lot of headlines and maybe even a world record or two.
Yet each is older than the moot senior gold medallist at the previous Championships in Rome in 1087. then 29 year-old Oinks Zagorcheva of Bulgaria who took the 100 metres hurdles title.
Ottey, 31. has ripened into the most elegant sprinter on the International scene as she prepares for the long awaited reward of her first gold me date tn a major championship
European sprint queen N*ln Krabbe of Germany. new Sj*t star Irina Sergeyeva and Mary Onyall of Nigeria look condemned lo the fight for sil ver and bronze, so outrageously does the Jamaican dominate Ow women s 1OO and 200
In the shorter sprint she to unbeaten tn more than 60 finals since 1967 yet for much of her career she looked more to" a good foeer.
Third in the I960 Olympic 200 metres final. Ottey went on to win a silver and five mon- bronze medals in World Championship, and Olympics without ever appearing good enough to win gold.
But since moving lo Italy lo train two years ago she has become a faster and classier sprinter and believes she can even attack American Florence Ortfftth-Joyncr s 200 metres world record of 21.34 seconds
"I have no regret." she said
recipllly II I had won a goM at the Olympics I would have given up long ago. Now that I m 31, I m having a great deal of satisfaction "
Joyncr-Kersec, just six months short of her 3Oth birthday, has taken a vastly different route to the top, having been in a class of her own for years In the heptathlon tn which she is unbeaten since 1985
Only Illness or injury can rob her of the gold medal and
the interest will mainly be focused on whether she can beat her own world rccdrd of 7.291 points.
A former world record holder in the long Jump, she will be aiming to repeat her double gold medal triumph at Rome four years ago, a feat she pulled off ' again In the 1988 Olympics.
But In the long jump she does at least have a worthy ri val in the shape of lanky German Heike Drechster. who lops this year s rankings with a leap of 7.37 metres.
Joyncr-Kersec has kept largely out of view this year, competing only twice tn the long jump. But she has been training Intensively with hus band and coach Bob Kersee and Is feeling confident.
Tm looking forward lo the long jump and lo doing my very best," she said. "If I can jump 7.35 metres that should win the competition."
They are far from the only veterans panning for gold Portugal* world, Olympic and European champion Rosa Mota hopes lo hold off Poland s Wanda Panfil to win the marathon at the age of 33.
German discus thrower Martina Hellmann. 30. the Oiympic gold medallist, is the only woman able lo complete a treble after her victories al the first two World Championships but she may find her younger compatriot like Wyludda. unbeaten in three years, loo strong this time.
The most interesting battle should come In the 800 metres where brilliant Cuban Ana Fidelia Qutrol. with more than 50 wins over the distance in
the past four years, is up against the reigning world and Olympic Champion Sigrun Grau, fellow German Christine Wachtel and the fastest woman ’ this year. Svetlana Mastcrkova
of the Soviet Union.
Heike Henkel of Germany
should fa involved In a fight to the finish In the high Jump with world record holder Stefka Kostadtnova of Bulgaria, while Lyudmila Narozhllcnko and Natalya Grigoryeva could lead a Soviet double in the IOO metres hurdles, possibly In world record lime
Yvonne Murray and Liz McColgan have high hopes of a double in the 3,000 and 10.000 metres, potentially the first golds for Britain In women s track events at the Championships.