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  • NAMES FOR HENGELO | Friday 11 May 2012 |   HENGELO (NED): The jubilee 30th FBK Games of Hengelo (May 27, IAAF World Challenge) will have as one of the top races the men´s 10 000 m with Haile Gebrselassie billed as Ethiopian Olympic Trials at the distance.  Also running Imane Merga, Sileshi Sihine and Gebre ...
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  • Blade Runner Pistorius confirmed for FBK-Games | Monday 12 March 2012 | Blade runner Oscar Pistorius has confirmed his participation at the FBK-Games in Hengelo (IAAF World Challenge) on May 27. Pistorius will run his main event, the 400m, in which he has a personal best of 45.07 confirm organizers of the FBK-Games.His previous meet in Europe will be Golden Spike of ...
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  • IAAF World Challenge Serie opens in Melbourne | Thursday 1 March 2012 | As the Olympic year IAAF World Challenge Series opens in Melbourne this weekend a Alex Parnov-trained vaulter is going ever-higher. It is not Steve Hooker. A horizontal jumper is going ever further. It is not Mitchell Watt; nor is it Fabrice Lapierre.   Alana Boyd and Henry Frayne ...
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  • Start of IAAF World Challenge in Melbourne | Thursday 1 March 2012 | As the Olympic year IAAF World Challenge Series opens in Melbourne this weekend a Alex Parnov-trained vaulter is going ever-higher. It is not Steve Hooker. A horizontal jumper is going ever further. It is not Mitchell Watt; nor is it Fabrice Lapierre.
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  • Latest developments | Thursday 22 December 2011 | From January 2012 the organisation of FBK Games in Hengelo will be strengthened by commercial director Mark Pastoor. The new function was created to improve in the area of sponsorship and marketing. There are also plans existing to improve the facilities in the stadium. Next edition of the IAAF World Challenge ...
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  • 3rd year for IAAF World Challenge | Saturday 5 November 2011 | IAAF World Challenge, the second tier circuit of one day meetings is having the calendar for its third season in 2012. The meetings remained the same as in 2011, newcomer in the calendar is the Ponce Grand Prix of Puerto-Rico planned for May 12. Ponce was included into the series ...
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  • Bolt 9.85 in Zagreb; 5 meet records | Wednesday 14 September 2011 | World record holder Usain Bolt remains undefeated with a solid win at the IAAF world challenge meeting in Zagreb, the 61st edition of Hanzekovic Memorial. Bolt clocked 9.85 (+0.1) to beat World bronze medalist Kim Collins (10.01) and Richard Thompson (10.03). Packed stadium witnessed in total 5 meet records Dayron ...
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  • Blake 9.82 at ISTAF Berlin | Monday 12 September 2011 | The jubilee 90th ISTAF at Olympic Stadium in Berlin saw new meet record and 9.82 (+0.1) by world champion Yohan Blake in his last race at this distance 2011. Superb 51 182 spectators saw plenty of action and in total four meet records. "I was a little lazy at the ...
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  • World-leading 4:00.33 for Jamal, Robles flies 13.07 in Hengelo | Monday 30 May 2011 | .A world-leading run in the 1500m by Maryam Jamal and a solid 13.07 victory in the 110m Hurdles by Dayron Robles were among the key highlights at the 29th FBK Games in Hengelo on Sunday (29).
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  • World-leading 4:00.33 for Jamal, Robles flies 13.07 in Hengelo | Monday 30 May 2011 | A world-leading run in the 1500m by Maryam Jamal and a solid 13.07 victory in the 110m Hurdles by Dayron Robles were among the key highlights at the 29th FBK Games in Hengelo on Sunday (29).
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  • Startinglists and livestream | Sunday 29 May 2011 | Click here for the start lists and the live results. The Wordl Challenge programm will be streamed on this website (NOS Studio Sport, Dutch television)
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  • 21.87m world lead for Hoffa in Hengelo | Saturday 28 May 2011 | Ahead of tomorrow’s main meeting USA’s Reese Hoffa kicked-off the 29th edition of the FBK Games with a bang today (28), reaching a world leading 21.87m in the Shot Put competition held in the city’s Burg. Jansenplein central square.   Hoffa, the former World champion indoors and out, ...
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  • Overall meeting preview | Saturday 28 May 2011 | All eyes on Alamirew While the throwers competed under cloudy skies and relatively cool temperatures, the conditions are looking brighter for Sunday afternoon’s main programme at FBK Stadium. Having hosted the record-breaking achievements of Ethiopian living legends Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele, Hengelo has become synonymous with ...
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  • New running wonder at the start in Hengelo | Thursday 26 May 2011 | Ethiopiahas yet another running wonder. Yenew Alamirew seems to have everything that can make him the successor of the living running legends Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele. The spectators of the 29th edition of the FBK-Games will make acquaintance with this athlete on Sunday the 29th of May. The athlete ...
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  • Champions ball on 100 meter hurdles | Tuesday 24 May 2011 | On Sunday the 29th of May during the 29th edition of the FBK-Games the 100 meter hurdles for women will be a real champions ball. The highest ranked athlete is the American Dawn Harper who in 2008 during the Olympics in Beijing won the gold. She can expect competition from ...
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  • Participants and programme 2011 | Wednesday 18 May 2011 | This afternoon during a press conference in the FBK-Stadium the – preliminary – participants for the 29th edition of the FBK-Games were presented. On the 29th of May athletes from no less than 46 countries will compete. Among the athletes 4 reigning Olympic-, 5 world- and 4 European- champions will ...
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