The 86th Israeli Athletics Championships opened today (Sunday) at the renovated athletics stadium in Givat Ram, which underwent renovations last year at a cost of NIS 55 million, with new stands and roofs, a new track and lighting, all in preparation for the European Under-18 Championships next month.
The fastest woman in Israel is Diana Weissman, who already in the semifinals broke the Israeli record with 11.22 seconds, while in the final itself, she was satisfied with 11.28 seconds, not before entering the photographers when she tried to stop at the end.
Hannah Minenko in action, Photo: Oren Aharoni
In the men's parallel run, Blessing Afrippa won Blessing Afrifa, who retained the title of Israeli Champion this year as well, with a result of 10.34 seconds, which is also an Israeli record up to the age of 23 and a personal record.
Tomorrow on the second day of the championship, the two will try to win a double in the double distance run.
One of the interesting focal points of the evening was the men's high jump, where they won a triple battle, with Israeli champion Yonatan Kapitolnik, who passed 2.27 meters, and tried to raise the bar to 2.31 meters, to set a new personal record, but failed in all three attempts. Nicki Pali arrived with a comeback of 2.10 meters and third Dima Kreuter who achieved only 2 meters.
Another focus of the evening was the triple jump pit, where Hannah Minenko settled for 14.15 meters, while in the men's, Uri Arnon won the national title with 15.09 meters.
Hannah Minenko in action, Photo: Oren Aharoni
One of the close runs of the evening was in the 1500 meters for women, where Sivan Auerbach, almost by the last meters overtook the Olympic runner Adva Cohen and won with 4.23.97 minutes.
Israeli Champions:
Triple jump - Uri Arnon, 15.09 meters
High jump - Yonatan Kapitolnik, 2.27 meters
Hammer throw - Victor Zginaiko, 51.92 meters
Ironball - Itamar Levy, 17.59 meters
Javelin Throw - Ariel Atias, 51.25 meters
110 meter hurdles - Dor Hayun, 14.19 seconds
1,500 meters - Addisu Guadia, 3: 48.25 minutes
400 meters - Noam Memo, 47.63 seconds
100 meters - Balsang Afrifa, 10.34 seconds
Diana Weissman celebrates.
Bigger than life,
Israeli Champions:
Triple jump - Hannah Minenko, 14.15 meters
High jump - Veronica Chinov, 1.77 meters
Ironball - Estel and Lano, 13.40 meters
Hammer throw - Yevgenia Zevulotny, 55.02 meters
100m hurdles - Alexandra Lukshin, 13.64 seconds
1,500 meters - Sivan Auerbach, 4.23.97 minutes
Diana Weissman in action.
A new Israeli record, Photo: Oren Aharoni
400 meters - Nitzan Ats, 56.04 seconds
100 meters - Diana Weissman, 11.28 seconds
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