Stapylton-Smith finishes fifth

Press, 7 October 1985, Page 25

Stapylton-Smith finishes fifth

NZPA staff correspondent Canberra

The world champion javelin thrower, Uwe Hohn, was on Saturday handing out throwing lessons at the athletics World Cup in Canberra, and New Zealand’s John Stapylton-Smith was taking it all in. Hohn set a new cup record on his last throw to win the competition, while StapyltonSmith came fifth on the strength of his first effort.

Throwing into a swirling headwind, the young New Zealander set 76.94 metres on his first throw while Hohn fouled, and Stapylton-Smith finished the first round in third place.

Stapylton-Smith fouled the next two and on the last three throws could not get it together. Hohn, by contrast, who had been disappointed with his efforts, exploded on his last throw with a massive heave of 96.96 m, which, however, was still almost four metres short of his world best

Stapylton-Smith said he just seized up after his first effort. "I was relaxed for my first throw, but then I just tensed up in the last five and couldn’t put anything out there,” he said.

“I was putting too much arm into it and not enough body.” However, Stapylton-Smith said that he had learned a lot in what was his biggest comgitition, watching the likes of ohn, the Russian Heino Puuste and Tom Petranoff, of the United States. “I didn’t do as well as I’d hoped to do, but I did well

enough to go home without saying I did too badly,” he said. “It was a good steppingstone to the Commonwealth Games.” Results:

400 m: Michael Franks (U.S.) 44.47 s (World Cup and Aust, open record) 1, Thomas Schonlebe (East Germ.) 44.72 s 2, Innocent Egbunike (Africa) 44.99 s 3. 1500 m: Omar Khalifa (Africa) 3min 41.16 s 1, Olaf Beyer (East Germ.) 3min 41.26 s 2, Igor Lotorev (U.S.S.R.) 3min 41.92 s 3. 3000 m steeplechase: Julius Kariuki (Africa) Bmin 39.51 s 1, Henry Marsh (U.S.) Bmin 39.55 s 2, Graeme Fell (Americas) Bmin 40.30 s 3, Peter Renner (Oceania) Bmin 54.96 s 7. Long jump: Mike Conley (U.S.) 8.20 m (Aust, open record) 1, Robert Emmiyan (U.S.S.R.) 8.09 m 2, Laszlo Szalma (Europe) 8.09 m 3. Shot put: Ulf Timmermann (East Germ.) 22.00 m (World Cup and Aust, open record) 1, Sergey Smirnov (U.S.S.R.) 21.72 m 2, Alessandro Andrei (Europe) 21.14 m 3. Hammer: Yuri Tamm (U.S.S.R.) 82.12 m (World Cup and Aust, open record) 1, Gunther Rodenau (East Germ.) 78.44 m 2, Jud Logan (U.S.) 76.68 m 3. Pole vault: Sergey Bubka (U.S.S.R.) 5.85 m (World Cup and Aust, open record) 1, Phillipe Collet (Europe) 5.60 m 2, Tim Bright (U.S.) 5.40 m 3. 4 x 100 m relay: U.S. (Harvey Glance, Kirk Baptiste, Calvin Smith, Dwayne Evans) 38.10 s (Aust, open record) 1, Americas (Desai Williams, Robson Caeteno Da Silver, Leandro Penalver, Ben Johnson) 38.31 s

2, U.SBJL (Nikolay Yushmanov, Alexandr Semenov, Alexandr Yevgenyev, Vladimir Muravyev) 38.35 s 3. Javelin: Uwe Hohn (East Germ.) 96.96 m (World Cup and Aust open record) 1, Heino Puuste (U.55.R.) 87.40 m 2, Tom Petranoff (ÜB.) 87.34 m 3, John Sta-pylton-Smith (Oceania) 76.94 m

200 m: Kirk Baptiste (ÜB.) 20.38 s (Aust open record) 1, Robson Caetano da Silva (Americas) 20.44 s 2, Frank Emmelmann (East Germ.) 20.51 s 3 llOm hurdles: Tonie Campbell (U.S.) 13.35 s 1, Sergey Usov (U.S.S.R.) 13.62 s 2, Jorg Naumann (Blast Germ.) 13.76 s 3.

100 m: Marlies Gohr (East Germ.) 11.10 s 1, Grace Jackson (Americas) 11.30 s and Marina Zhirova (U.S.S.R.) 11.30 s equal

100 m hurdles: Cornelia Oschkenat (East Germ.) 12.72 s (Aust, open record) 1, Ginka Zagortcheva (Europe) 12.72 s 2, Svetlana Gusarova (U.S.S.R.) 13.01 s 3.

800 m: Christine Wachtel (East Germ.) 2min 01.57 s 1, Jarmila Kratochvilova (Europe) 2min 01.99 s 2, Nadezhda Olizarenko (U.S.S.R.) 2min 02.17 s 3.

10,000 m: Aurora Cunha (Europe) 32min 07.50 s (World Cup and Aust, open record) 1, Mary Knisely (U.S.) 32min 19.93 s 2, Olga Bondarenko (U.S.S.R.) 32min 27.70 s 3. 3000 m: Ulrike Bruns (East Germ.) 9min 14.65 s 1, Tatyana Pozdnyakova • (U.S.S.R.) 9min 15.65 s 2, Cindy Bremser (U.S.) 9min 21.15 s 3.

Long jump: Heike Drechsler (East Germ.) 7.27 m (World Cup and Aust, open record) 1, Galina Chistyakova (U.S.S.R.) 7.00 m 2, Carol Lewis (U.S.) 6.88 m 3.

400 m relay: East Germ. (Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Gohr) 41.37 s (world record) 1, U.S.S.R. (Antonina Nastoburko, Natalya Bochina, Marina Zhirova, Elvira Barbashina) 42.54 s 2, Europe- (Iwona Pakula, Ginka Zagortcheva, Ewa Pisiewicz, Ewa Kasprzyk) 43.38 s 3.

400 m: Marita Koch (East Germ.) 47.60 s (world record) 1, Olga Vladykina (U.S.S.R.) 48.27 s 2, Lillie Leatherwood (U.S.) 50.43 s 3.