| July 18-24, 1999 | July 25-31, 1999 |
| August 1-14, 1999 | Aug 14- Sept 4, 1999 |
| September, 1999 | October - December, 1999 |
| December 30: He's getting faster with age |
| Bruny Surin, fresh from the best year of his sprinting career, takes aim at Olympics The world's second-fastest man has laced up his track spikes again, and a week ago his coach had two quiet words of advice for him: Slow down. more... |
| December 11: Rankings Updated - Maurice Greene is Sprinter of 1999 |
| The December rankings have been updated, no changes though. Therefor, the final points for 1999
have been put together and with 100 out of a possible 100 points, Maurice Greene is the top sprinter of 1999. Ato
Boldon was second, 15 points behind and for third was Bruny Surin with 81 points, for full results click here In 2000, I will start brand new rankings, by week in October, November and December they will only be ranked by month, the 1999 archives are below. The rankings for indoor will be for the 60m season. |
| November 20: Canada officially Goodwill Games Gold Medalists |
| From donovanbailey.com: The Goodwill Games have officially overturned the result of the Men's 4x100m Relay awarding the Gold Medal to the Canadian team from 1998. This decision takes the Gold away from the US who competed with the inclusion of Dennis Mitchell who is presently serving a suspension by the IAAF. We are all very happy with this decision, which was announced by David Raith, Vice President, Sports for the Goodwill Games and has the blessing of the IAAF. read Slam Sports' Report |
| November 20: Rankings Updated |
| The November rankings are finnaly updated, no changes though. Expect no changes in December as well. In 2000, I will start brand new rankings, by week in October, November and December they will only be ranked by month, the 1999 archives are below. The rankings for indoor will for the 60m season. |
| October 2: Bruny honoured by Habs |
| Bruny Surin and Caroline Brunet we're honoured in Montreal on Saturday night, before the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs dropped the puck on the 1999/2000 NHL Season. Surin and Brunet we're honoured for there great accomplishments this summer and they both put on Montreal Canadiens jerseys and we're at centre ice for the singing of "Oh Canada". |
| September 7: Bruny has good day in Berlin, results: | ||||||||||||
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| September 6: New Bruny Surin Forum | ||||||||||||
| Bruny Surin and the World's Top Sprinters page has a new and improved Message Board. This time it is hosted by Delphi and is much much more organized, please sign up today and post like mad! You can also take part in a chat.... Thanks Track Fans, BTSF | ||||||||||||
| September 5: Michael Johnson continues winning in Rieti | ||||||||||||
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Michael Johnson won his 7th consecituve 200m today in Rieti, Italy. Michael's winning time of 20.02 was his second best time of 1999, two days after 19.93 in winning Brussels. World Championship silver medalist at Seville, Claudinei Da Silva was second in 20.16
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The 100m was won by Bruny Surin, who is having the year of his life in 10.04. In second was HSI's
Jon Drummond. Kareem Streete-Thompson took third in 10.2. The 100m Bronze medalist from Seville, Dwain Chambers
finished a dissapointing 6th in 10.31
In the 200m, Michael Johnson dominated again winning in 19.93, tying his season best. Claudinei Da Silva repeated his second place finish of Seville, finishing in 20.1. Bruny, meanwhile running aside Michael Johnson finished back in third with a PB time of 20.21
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| September 1: Bruny wins Bellinzona in 10.06, Bailey fourth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Today Bruny Surin easily led a mediocre field to the line in the 100m in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Fellow Canadian and Training partner Donovan Bailey finished back in a dissapointing fourth with a 10.32 clocking, the 10.32 was Donovan's second best legal time of 1999. His best came back on August 8 in Cologne where he ran 10.3
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| August 30: Bruny's season winding down, Bellinzona on Wednesday | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What a successful season Bruny has had; Personal bests in the 100 and 200... 5 Sub10's and a Silver
medal at the world championships, tying the national record. Bruny only has three more races for 1999... Wednesday
in Bellinzona, Switzerland, Friday in Brussels and Tuesday the 7th in Berlin. Before his season ends his goals
are to run 9.9 and break Atlee Mahorn's Canadian 200m record of 20.17. The last time Bruny's season went into mid
September was 1995, where he also won a Silver medal at Worlds and that too was a pre-olympic year. Next year Bruny's
season will go into late September as the 2000 Olympic Games are in Sydney, Australia from September 15- October
1 The meet coming up in Bellinzona, "Gran Premio dei Castelli" will feature Donovan Bailey, Bruny Surin , Antonio Pettigrew, Colin Jackson, Duane Ross, Zhanna Pintusevich, Deon Hemmings, Hanne Haugland and Heike Drechsler. The men's 100m will take place at 8:30pm, Suisse time which is 1:30 eastern. Please leave your comments in the Message Board |
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| August 30: Surin rips into Bailey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Refuses to accept blame for relay team's disqualification Montreal sprinter Bruny Surin, the second-fastest man on Earth, should be reveling today in the
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| August 29: Maurice Greene wins third gold in fastest 4x100m in history | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The United States had great handoffs and tremendous leg speed in winning the 4x100m Gold Medal at
the 1999 World Championships in the 5th fastest time in history of 37.59. Britain came second in a European record
of 37.73 erasing the 1993 mark set by Colin Jackson, Tony Jarrett, John Regis and Linford Christie of 37.77. The
Nigerians took bronze in a NR of 37.91 and Brazil finished fourth in a South American record of 38.05. Jon Drummond had the lead as he had a clean exchange with Tim Montgomery while the Brits stuggled and played catch up the whole way. Off the final exchange Dwain Chambers of Britain had the lead but Greene over took him for a clear metre and half victory. Results are on the left. Congrats to the US team of Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis and Maurice Greene. The final would of been that much greater with Canada ... Results |
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| August 28: Canadian 4x100m Relay Team Disqualified in Semi-Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| August 28: Surin high on Greene (not so much on Boldon) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SEVILLE, Spain (AP) -- Canada's Bruny Surin, second to double world champion Maurice Greene in the 100-meter final, rates his American rival above any sprinter in history. "In the 100, I think he's even stronger than Carl Lewis," said Surin,who's idolized the eight-time world champion his entire life. "When Maurice runs poorly, he runs 9.90." more... |
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| August 28: Brits, U.S. gunning for Canucks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SEVILLE, Spain -- And now, back to As the Team Turns, brought to you by baton broadcasting. The latest on the soap opera that is the Canadian men's 4x100-metre relay team, has longtime anchor Donovan Bailey grudgingly accepting his new role as leadoff man for the semi-finals today, after yielding the anchor to the new stud, Bruny Surin. more... |
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| August 27: 200m at Worlds - PhenoMOnal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maurice Greene completed the 100/200 World Championship double in Seville by winning the 200m in 19.90, his fastest of the year against a field without World Champion Ato Boldon and the two fastest 200m runners in history Michael Johnson and Frank Fredericks, who pulled out of the final with a nagging hamstring injury. Brazil's Pan-American Games Champion Claudinei Da Silva won silver in a PB of 20.00, followed by 20 year old Nigerian Francis Obikwelu who ran a blistering 19.84 in the semi-final. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 27: Bailey drops anchor - Winning relay formula out, Surin in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SEVILLE, Spain -- Bruny Surin has proved that he is lightning-fast and yesterday it looked as though
he pulled a fast one on the Canadian men's relay team. Surin coolly announced he would anchor the 4x100-metre team at the world track and field championships, at least for Sunday's final, with Donovan Bailey leading off. more... The 200m Results from the World Championships will be posted later tonight, No Spoilers Here!! |
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| August 26: Rankings, Week #6... New addition to page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We are well into the seventh edition of Track and Field's World Championships and well into the
outdoor season, Week 6 of my Sprint Rankings are up and here are the latest moves: -Greene strengthens his lead at #1 again with World Championship Gold -Surin with 3 sub10's, including a 9.84 during the World's moves to second -Ato Boldon dropped to #3 being out of action -Dwain Chambers moves up to 4th with a Bronze in Seville -Tim Harden and Tim Montgomery are back in the top ten at #7 and 10 r The new addition to this page was suggested by a few visitors who thought it would be fitting for this page to have a message board. I decided it would be a good idea and now fans will have a place where they can talk about Bruny Surin and the World of Track and Field. I hope this board will be as succesful as other boards about Track that are on the net. Enjoy! |
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| August 26: Relay Role Reversal? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Surin making noises about taking anchor from Bailey SEVILLE, Spain -- All six members of the Canadian men's 4x100-metre relay team practised together for the first time yesterday, although there are rumblings that not all is hunky-dory. There are rumours Bruny Surin, who stunned the track world with his silver-medal time of 9.84 seconds in the 100-metre final Sunday, wants to move from his traditional third leg on the team to the more glamorous anchor position in the relay event at the world track championships. more... |
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| August 23: Lots of Bruny Surin news | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bruny will have to become the Canadian record holder in the 100, 200 and 4x100m another day because
he will not contest the 200 in Seville. Bruny felt sick after his 9.84 Silver medal performance in Seville and
wants to rest up for the relay where he will defend his World title with team Canada. I wish Bruny all the best
in recovering. You can listen to a press conference of Bruny Surin and Maurice Greene from after the 100m Final in Seville. Listen here Here's a part of a Toronto Sun Article titled "Silver could land sprinter a pot of gold": --Bruny Surin's spectacular time does more than just bump up his bottom line. It opens doors. Meet directors will bend over backward to have him race. And there are still a few big races left in the season, including Brussels (Sept.3), Berlin (Sept.7) and the Grand Prix Final in Munich (Sept.11). Surin and Donovan Bailey also are expected to race Sept. 1 in Bellinzone, Switzerland.-- The article can be found in the News section Also, Congratulations to Canadian Mark Boswell who won Canada's second silver medal of the games in the High Jump with a National Record of 2.35m. Boswell, 21 trains in Austin, Texas like Surin, Bailey, Oba Thompson and Kareem Streete-Thompson. |
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| August 22: Greene wins Gold in 9.8, Surin ties National Record for Silver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bruny Surin is the second fastest man EVER. Bruny won his semi-final heat at the World Championships
in Seville Sunday in a time of 9.96. His sixth sub 10 run of his career and fourth of 1999. Maurice Greene won
the first Semi-Final in the same time. The semi winners clashed in the final, World's Fastest man Greene in 5,
Surin in 6. Bruny got off to the best start and was leading Greene until about the 60m mark where Greene pulled
ahead and won in 9.80, .01 off the World Record despite a great push by Surin, who won Silver in a PB/National
Record time of 9.84!! This was Bruny's second silver medal in the event, as he won the medal in 1995 behind now co-national record holder Donovan Bailey. Bailey, who was doing commentating for CBC was thrilled with the performance which makes Bruny and Donovan the second fastest men ever in the World. 9.84=Canada. Bruny is also the first man to reach 5 World Championship finals, he has done so in every championship since Tokyo'91 Bruny deserved the honour more than any man. I am overwhelmed and thrilled for Bruny. He did it. Three times under 10 seconds in two days, this has been the meet of Bruny's life even with the 200 and 4x100 to go. I am thrilled, Congratulations Bruny! |
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| Bruny is on his game. Surin won his opening heat on Saturday in a time of 10.18, fastest of the first round, beating Briton Darren Campbell by a good 2 metres. Bruny had a great start and eased up nicely. Tim Harden of the US posted 10.18 as well in winning heat 8. WR Holder Maurice Greene had no problems advancing in 10.3 Surin & Greene we're lined up next to eachother in Round 2. Greene had a slight lead all the way threw and both eased up at the line as Bruny and Maurice exchanged glances. Maurice won the race 9.91 to 9.95, the 9.95 clocking was Bruny's third best of his career. Obadele Thompson and Jason Gardener shared the second best qualifying time in 10.04. Surin lines up against Tim Harden, Thompson, Gardener, Leonard Myles-Mills, Davidson Ezinwa and Brian Lewis in the second semi-final tommorow. Bruny looks sharp! |
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| August 19: Sprint Rankings: Week 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No Changes from last week as all athletes are preparing for Sevilla'99. Maurice Greene hasn't been challenged at number one every week. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| For a while now, I've been compiling a list of Bruny's races. (50,55,60,100,200 and Relays). I currently have 183 of his races listed. Please take a look at it and if you have the results of a race I don't have on there please E-mail me |
| August 12: Sprint Rankings - Week 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| -Greene, Boldon and Surin ranked 1-3 yet again -Obadele Thompson moves up again, this week to 4th -Dwain Chambers enters the rankings at #5 -Jason Gardener is back at 6 after a week at #4 -Leornard Myles-Mills is back at 7 after a week at #6 -Matt Shirvington enters at #10 -Frankie drops from #7 to #9. I'm looking for him to shoot back up in Seville |
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| August 11: Weltklasse Results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 100m: Maurice Greene clocked his 22nd career Sub10 by winning the race in .9.99 seconds into
a 0.7 headwind. The closest competitor to Greene was 1997 NCAA Champion Obadele Thompson of Barbados in 10.02.
Canada's own Bruny Surin was third in 10.06. The best start was by Matt Shirivington from Australia who had a reaction
time of .124 but he faded and finished 7th. 200m: One hour and a half after the 100m was contested, Frank Fredericks, Obadele Thompson and Jon Drummond returned for the 200m. The three mentioned finished 1-2-3, with Frankie taking the victory in 20.23 (-0.8) compared to Thompson's 20.26 and Drummond's 20.29. Briton Julian Golding had the best reaction time but finished last in eighth. There is a picture of Bruny from this meet in the Gallery Results: 100m | 200m |
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| August 11: Bruny will run 200 at Seville | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bruny Surin will contest the 200 metres in Seville at The Worlds and launch an assault on Atlee
Mahorn's eight year National Record of 20.17. He had the following comments on his webpage, surin.com after the
Weltklasse meet: "Je suis en forme et récemment j'ai fait ma meilleure performance sur 200 mètres avec un chrono de 20,29 secondes. Je suis conscient que je peux aller beaucoup plus vite que ça, alors j'ai décidé de participer à l'épreuve!" Which means he is in form, recently he did a personal best over 200m with 20.29. He feels confident he can go much faster which is why he has decided to run. |
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| August 11: Ato Boldon and Donovan Bailey pull out of Zurich and Seville | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ato Boldon announced he will not compete at the upcoming World Championships from August 21-29 in
Seville, Spain. Boldon is pulling out because of nagging leg problems and feels he is not ready to compete in the
100 or 200 Donovan Bailey announced on his site that meets like Weltklasse and Worlds are not a place to line up unless your 100% ready, and he is obviously not. He will however still defend the 4x100m Gold medal with team Canada |
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| August 10: Another Johnson vs. Bailey?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ben Johnson has challenged Donovan Bailey to a match race over 100m, he also invited sprinters like
Bruny Surin. Ben wants it in Winnipeg, because he feels Donovan let the city down at the Pan-American Games. Wow, I'm not suprised Ben challenged Bailey now! Donovan is coming back from a serious injury and finally Ben Johnson decides to challenge him! Read the full story |
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| August 9: Donovan Bailey third in Koln | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Donovan ran his best race of 1999 Sunday when he finished third at Weltklasse in Koln. The winner of the race was young Obadele Thompson of Barbados in 10.08 (0.2). NCAA Champion Leonard Myles-Mills was second in 10.10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weltklasse Grand Prix is on Wednesday. This will be Bruny's second Golden League event of 1999.
Bruny has always showed up at Zurich. He only missed one year since 1991, which was 1994 because of knee surgery.
Surin is coming off a impressive second place effort in London where he ran a 10.02 (-0.6, 9.99 ajusted). In Zurich,
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| August 7: British Grand Prix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The capacity 16,500 crowd, greeting the return of Grand Prix athletics to Crystal Palace after a
five-year gap, was rewarded by Greene racing to 9.97sec, ahead of Bruny Surin's 10.02, to become the first man
to break the 10 second barrier in the UK. The world record holder's performance was all the more impressive for his disappointing start which saw him in fourth place at the halfway mark. Briton Dwain Chambers was third in 10.04 but Olympic champion Donovan Bailey struggled home in last place. The 200m saw Briton Julian Golding win in 20.23. In the much hyped 4x100m relay, HSI looked very impressive in finishing ahead of the Brits in 38.02 The HSI camp had the line-up of: Jon Drummond, Ato Boldon, Curtis Johnson who won the B 100m race and finnaly WR Holder Maurice Greene. Great Job Bruny! |
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| On Saturday Bruny Surin will make his first appearance in Europe in a month. Bruny has been training
hard for the World Championships, later this month in Seville. His training has been going very well with teammates
Donovan Bailey and Glenroy Gilbert down in Austin, Texas as well as at home in Montreal. Bruny and Donovan arrived
in London on Wednesday. Bruny has been running lots of 300 metre races to help his endurance in the 100m. Bruny races in London on Saturday against rivals such as Bailey and Maurice Greene. He and Bailey will run in Zurich, Switzerland as well. Good Luck Bruny! |
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| August 5: 100m Rankings Week Three | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| -No Change in top three once again -British Champion Jason Gardener moves up Two with absence of Green Machine -Obadele Thompson (5th) and Jon Drummond (8th) move into top 10 with the exits of Dennis Mitchell and Eric Nkansah. -There was room for NCAA Champion L. Myles-Mills to move up one -Frankie drops 3 spots -Brian Lewis barely hanging at #10 |
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| August 4: Herculis-Zepter 200m Results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maurice Greene of USA beat Frankie Fredericks of Namibia by only 1/100th of a second Wednesday in
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| LONDON (AP-CP) -- Linford Christie, the 100-metre champion at the 1992 Olympics, was suspended today for failing a drug test. The International Amateur Athletic Federation said Christie tested positive for the steroid Nandrolone in a urine sample from a February 13 meet at Dortmund, Germany. Full Story | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 3: Dennis The Menace Gone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dennis Mitchell, one of the world's best sprinters, received a two-year ban Tuesday for a failed
drug test but will be eligible to run in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Track and field's governing body said his drug test from 16 months ago showed high levels of testosterone. The IAAF arbitration panel ruled that Mitchell, the 100-meter bronze medalist in the 1992 Olympics and two-time bronze medalist at the world championships, had no right of appeal. "He has always been against the use of drugs in track and field," lawyer Suja Thomas said from New York. "This is truly a severe disappointment to him." A call to Mitchell in Florida was answered by his wife, who said he was not home. Mitchell ran Monday in Malmo, Sweden. Mitchell will be ineligible from April 1, 1998, until March 31, 2000. Any performances by him during that period are "null and void." Dennis will not run in Seville. The current US 100m Team is: Maurice Greene, Brian Lewis, Tim Montgomery and Tim Harden. Dennis will not be in this page's 100m Rankings until his ban is over. The next Rankings are on Thursday, August 5th. Bruny Surin and Canada 4x100m are now Gold Medalists from the 1998 Goodwill Games. |
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| August 3: Results from Malmö, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maurice Greene double! Two new Stadium Records! It was an american sweep in Malmö lead by World Record holder Maurice Greene. Aussie sensation Matt Shirvington finished fourth (10.26), followed by Brit Darren Campbell (10.27) and American Curtis Johnson (10.30). Mike Marsh of USA won the 'B' final in 10.49
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| August 2: Preview for August 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
It has arrived!!! The month all Track fans have been waiting for, the month of the World Championships
in Sevilla, Spain. There's quite a schedule lined up before Seville including a stacked 100m in Sheffield, Britain
featuring the likes of Maurice Greene, Ato Boldon, Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey!! The first big event of August
is Golden League event, Herculis-Zepter in Monaco on the fourth, followed by the British Grand Priz and Weltkasse
in Koln. On the 11th, a week after Monaco the fifth Golden League event is Weltkasse in Zurich, Switzerland. And
finally...
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| August 2: www.surin.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I encourage everyone to visit Bruny Surin's Official Page, it's a dream for every fan of Mr. Surin all about him and his career. It also is about his interests, what he does in the community, his training, etc. You might have problem reading though if your not bilingual!! |
| July 30: Pan-American Games 4x100m Results | ||||||||||||||||
| Canada was leading after the second leg. Donovan Bailey had an excellant start and Gilbert was great
on the second leg as usual. Brazil really won the race on the third leg when Edson L. Rebeiro passed by Brad McCuaig.
In the end Canada's Trevino Betty couldn't catch Brazil's Andre Silva who won in games record time of 38.19. Complete Results |
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| July 30: DN Galan Results | ||||||||||||||||
| Race 1: Jon Drummond running for the first time since the US Nationals won the first race
in 10.10 (-0.7). Dennis Mitchell, who has been running well of late finished second (10.17) and Australian sensation
Matt Shirvington grabed third in 10.2 Race 2: Maurice Greene continued his consistent season, winning in 10.07 (+0.8). Obadele Thompson finished second in 10.10 and Dwain Chambers of Britain was third in 10.17. Curtis Johnson of USA finished fourth in the same time. Final: WOW! Another sub 9.9 clocking for Maurice Greene, winning in 9.87!! (+0.6) Obadele Thompson of Barbados ran well in 9.97. Followed by Jon Drummond who ran 10.04 finishing just ahead of Dennis Mitchell's 10.05. Complete Results |
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| July 29: Rankings Updated | ||||||||||||||||
| -Dennis Mitchell goes from Ninth to Fourth. -British Champion Jason Gardener moves up two spots to Sixth. -NCAA Champion Leonard Myles-Mills, Eric Nkansah and Tim Harden all dropted two spots. |
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| July 28: Pan-American Games | ||||||||||||||||
| In the Men's 200m Final, the favourite coming in, Claudinei Silva took gold in 20.30 seconds (-1.9).
He led the entire way, followed by HSI member Curtis Perry of the USA in 20.59 and Sebastien Keital of Chile took
the bronze for the second consecutive Pan-Ams in 20.82 Semi-Finals of the 4x100m Relay were held on Wednesday. Canada won the first semi in 38.74, Donovan Bailey ran leg one, Glenroy Gilbert on the backstraight, Brad McCuaig on the third leg and finnaly Canada's anchor from the '98 Commenwealth Games Trevino Betty. Brazil led by Claudinei Silva won their Semi in 38.67 defeating a young United States team. |
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| July 26: Zipfer Grand Prix in Linz, Austria | ||||||||||||||||
| Dennis Mitchell won two 100m races in Linz today with an impressive 10.02 (+0.2) in Race 1 defeating Obadele Thompson who was second in a 10.12 clocking. Coby Miller was third (10.17) and Australian Matt Shirvington was fourth (10.19). Mitchell, the US Champion also beat Thompson in the other 100m race in 10.22 (-0.8) which had a much weaker field. 200m WR holder, Michael Johnson won the 200 in 20.12 over fellow Americans Coby Miller and Tony McCall... The performance of the "Green Machine" will definitly improve his 9th place spot in the 100m Rankings. Complete Results | ||||||||||||||||
| July 25: Pan-Am Games 100m Results | ||||||||||||||||
Bernard Williams wins 100m at Winnipeg in PB time, beating favourite Tim Harden who finished fourth
in 10.19. Look for Harden's performance to effect his position in the rankings. Canadian Brad McCuaig finished
in last with a time of 10.31. Here are the medal winners:
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| July 25: 1999 British Championships | ||||||||||||||||
| Jason Gardener won the British Championships at Birmingham in a sizzling 10.02. The wind was over the 2m/s limit (+2.3). Second was Dwain Chambers in 10.07 who had a great recovery after a bad start. Third was Darren Campbell in 10.18 who later said the Brits would win gold in the 4x100m at Sevilla. Look for Jason to move up in the next 100m Rankings on Thursday, July 29 |
| July 24: Semis at Pan-Ams; Gilbert did not run, McCuaig advances |
| Three semi-final heats were ran in Winnipeg today, In heat one it was the favourite Tim Harden of the USA easily advancing in second behind Freddie Mayola Fernandez in a time of 10.4; Mayola won in 10.31... Heat Two was won by Bernard Williams of the USA in 10.28, Patrick O. Jarrett of Jamaica ran a PB in finishing second in 10.29... In the final heat Claudinei Silva of Brazil won in a track record time of 10.19 and Brad McCuaig easily advanced in 10.48. The final is set with Andre Silva of Brazil and L.A. Perez Rionda of Cuba also advancing. |
| July 23: Injury could sideline Gilbert |
| Glenroy Gilbert was handed the opportunity to defend his Pan-Am Games 100-metre championship by
Donovan Bailey's refusal to run. But now he faces the possibility of having to pass on it himself because of injury.
The 30-year-old from Ottawa, the surprise gold medallist in 1995, said Thursday a stretched groin suffered in Flagstaff, Ariz. last weekend may not allow him to run the 100-metre heats Saturday. "I'm not sure how bad it is," Gilbert said of the injury he suffered during relay practice Sunday in Flagstaff when he came off the turn into the straight-away and lost his footing on the wet track. "I'll get into Winnipeg and have the doctor look at it and make a decision then." Gilbert became Canada's second 100-metre entrant, alongside Brad McCuaig of Calgary, after Bruny Surin elected to pass on the Pan-Am Games to compete in Europe. Bailey, the Olympic champion recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon, turned down the invitation to run, saying he was insulted by not being named in the first place. If Gilbert can't run, then McCuaig would be Canada's only runner because no one else ran the required standard time of 10.20 seconds. |
| July 22: NEW: 100m Rankings! |
| A new addition to the Unofficial Bruny Surin Page is World 100m Rankings, every thursday I will have the top 100m sprinters in my opinion ranked 1-10 based on how they are running. The previous weeks ranking will be kept on a seperate page. And the athletes in the top 10 will have there previous weeks ranking in brackets. |
| July 22: Upcoming Races announced on Bruny's Website |
| On Bruny's Official page, it was announced that Bruny will be running in Sheffield on August 7 and at the Weltkasse GP in Zurich, Switzerland on the 11th in preperation for the 1999 World Championships in Sevilla, Spain from August 21-29. |
| July 22: Let the Games Begin!! |
| The Pan-Am Games opening ceremony is Friday night and the 100m begin on Saturdaywith semis and Final on Sunday... Despite the absence of Montreal sprinter Bruny Surin, Canada has a deep track and field team. Top medal contenders include: --Donovan Bailey, Brad McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert and Trevino Betty should win gold in the 4x100 relay. Gilbert and McCuaig also have shots at medals in the 100 metres. Gilbert is the defending gold medallist. Other sprinitng events are the 200m (Semis on Tuesday, Final on Wednesday) followed by the 4x100m on Friday... Go Canada Go... check CBC Sports for the TV Schedule |