2010 IAAF Continental Cup

The 1st IAAF Continental Cup was an international track and field sporting event held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations. Originally scheduled as the 11th IAAF World Cup in Athletics, it was renamed in 2008 when the IAAF revamped the competition format.[1] It was held in Split, Croatia on 4–5 September 2010.[1]

1st IAAF Continental Cup
Dates4–5 September
Host cityCroatia Split, Croatia
VenueStadion Poljud
Events40

The competition mascot was an anthropomorphic white seagull with a blue hat and scarf, named Marino. Designed by children from the Juraj Bonači educational centre, the mascot builds on the fact that Split is a coastal city.[2]

The attendance for the second day of the competition was about 25,000.[3]

Format

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The four teams competing in the event were Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The African and European teams were selected via the results of the 2010 African Championships in Athletics and the 2010 European Athletics Championships, respectively. The Americas team selection was assembled from the athletes at the top of the season's lists on 31 July 2010. Two athletes from each region were selected per event, with the exception of the 1500 metres and long distance track events (where teams may field three athletes, although only two count towards the team points total).[4]

These rules represented a departure from the previous format of the IAAF World Cup. National teams were removed from the programme and the areas governed by the Asian Athletics Association and the Oceania Athletics Association sent a combined team for the first time. The two-day competition comprised a programme of 20 track and field events for men and women, giving a total of 40 events.

Team points by position
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Points 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Relay points – 1st = 15pts / 2nd = 11pts / 3rd = 7pts / 4th = 3pts

Standings

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The standings following the event were:

Rank Team Places Points
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
1 Europe 13 15 12 16 6 9 2 1 429
2 Americas 13 12 14 7 11 8 6 5 419.5
3 Africa 7 9 7 5 8 10 15 10 292
4 Asia-Pacific 7 4 8 10 11 9 13 10 286.5

After doping disqualifications of Andrei Mikhnevich and Marwa Hussein in 2013, their scores were deleted and others amended, which changed the result in the tight team competition.

The revised scores were:[5]

Rank Team Places Points
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
1 Americas 13 12 14 8 10 8 6 5 422.5
2 Europe 13 15 11 16 6 9 2 1 417
3 Africa 7 9 7 5 9 9 15 9 293
4 Asia-Pacific 7 4 9 10 11 10 12 10 290.5

Americas were awarded the Continental Cup in a ceremony at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup.

Further to this, Mariya Abakumova was disqualified following a doping sanction in 2018, and her results deleted with those in the women's javelin amended.

The revised scores are as follows:

Rank Team Places Points
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
1 Americas 13 12 14 8 11 9 5 5 424.5
2 Europe 12 15 11 15 6 9 2 1 410
3 Africa 8 8 7 6 8 9 15 9 295
4 Asia-Pacific 7 5 8 9 12 11 11 10 292.5

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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  Christophe Lemaitre (FRA)
Europe
10.06   Daniel Bailey (ATG)
Americas
10.10   Mark Lewis-Francis (GBR)
Europe
10.16
SB
200 metres
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  Wallace Spearmon (USA)
Americas
19.95   Churandy Martina (AHO)
Americas
20.47   Ben-Youssef Méité (CIV)
Africa
20.51
400 metres
details
  Jeremy Wariner (USA)
Americas
44.22
CR
  Ricardo Chambers (JAM)
Americas
44.59   Michael Bingham (GBR)
Europe
44.84
SB
800 metres
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  David Rudisha (KEN)
Africa
1:43.27
CR
  Marcin Lewandowski (POL)
Europe
1:44.81   Belal Mansoor Ali (BHR)
Asia-Pacific
1:44.92
1500 metres
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  Amine Laâlou (MAR)
Africa
3:35.49   Mekonnen Gebremedhin (ETH)
Africa
3:35.70   Leonel Manzano (USA)
Americas
3:36.48
3000 metres
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  Bernard Lagat (USA)
Americas
7:54.75   Moses Ndiema Kipsiro (UGA)
Africa
7:54.98
SB
  Bayron Piedra (ECU)
Americas
7:55.52
5000 metres
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  Bernard Lagat (USA)
Americas
13:58.23   Moses Ndiema Kipsiro (UGA)
Africa
13:58.35   Bouabdellah Tahri (FRA)
Europe
13:58.79
110 metre hurdles
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  David Oliver (USA)
Americas
13.11   Andy Turner (GBR)
Europe
13.48   Shi Dongpeng (CHN)
Asia-Pacific
13.53
400 metre hurdles
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  Dai Greene (GBR)
Europe
47.88
PB
  Javier Culson (PUR)
Americas
48.08   Bershawn Jackson (USA)
Americas
48.62
3000 metre steeplechase
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  Richard Mateelong (KEN)
Africa
8:09.67
CR
  Roba Gari (ETH)
Africa
8:09.87
NR
  Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA)
Europe
8:09.96
4 × 100 metre relay
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Americas
  Daniel Bailey (ATG)
  Wallace Spearmon (USA)
  Tyson Gay (USA)
  Churandy Martina (AHO)
38.25 Asia-Pacific
  Shinji Takahira (JPN)
  Naoki Tsukahara (JPN)
  Kenji Fujimitsu (JPN)
  Shintaro Kimura (JPN)
39.28 Africa
  Hannes Dreyer (RSA)
  Simon Magakwe (RSA)
  Wilhelm van der Vyver (RSA)
  Thuso Mpuang (RSA)
39.82
4 × 400 metre relay
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Americas
  Nery Brenes (CRC)
  Bershawn Jackson (USA)
  Greg Nixon (USA)
  Ricardo Chambers (JAM)
2:59.00
CR
Europe
  Michael Bingham (GBR)
  Kevin Borlée (BEL)
  Vladimir Krasnov (RUS)
  Martyn Rooney (GBR)
2:59.84 Africa
  Gary Kikaya (COD)
  Mark Kiprotich Mutai (KEN)
  Mohamed Khouaja (LBA)
  Rabah Yousif (SUD)
3:02.62
High jump
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  Rashid Ahmed Al-Mannai (QAT)
Asia-Pacific
2.28
PB
  Donald Thomas (BAH)
Americas
2.28   Martyn Bernard (GBR)
Europe
2.25
Pole vault
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  Steven Hooker (AUS)
Asia-Pacific
5.95
CR
  Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
Europe
5.90   Derek Miles (USA)
Americas
5.75
Long jump
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  Dwight Phillips (USA)
Americas
8.34   Kafétien Gomis (FRA)
Europe
8.10   Christian Reif (GER)
Europe
7.99
Triple jump
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  Marian Oprea (ROU)
Europe
17.29   Alexis Copello (CUB)
Americas
17.25   Phillips Idowu (GBR)
Europe
17.24
Shot put
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  Christian Cantwell (USA)
Americas
21.87   Tomasz Majewski (POL)
Europe
21.22   Scott Martin (AUS)
Asia-Pacific
20.101
Discus throw
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  Robert Harting (GER)
Europe
66.85   Benn Harradine (AUS)
Asia-Pacific
66.45
AR
  Ehsan Haddadi (IRI)
Asia-Pacific
64.55
Hammer throw
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  Libor Charfreitag (SVK)
Europe
79.69   Dilshod Nazarov (TJK)
Asia-Pacific
78.76   Ali Al-Zinkawi (KUW)
Asia-Pacific
76.73
Javelin throw
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  Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR)
Europe
89.26
CR
  Gerhardus Pienaar (RSA)
Africa
83.17
SB
  Matthias de Zordo (GER)
Europe
82.89

1   Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR) of Europe originally won the bronze medal with 20.68m, but he was disqualified in 2012 after a retest of his samples from the 2005 World Championships tested positive for clenbuterol, methandienone and oxandrolone.

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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  Kelly-Ann Baptiste (TRI)
Americas
11.05   Shalonda Solomon (USA)
Americas
11.09   Blessing Okagbare (NGR)
Africa
11.14
200 metres
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  Aleksandra Fedoriva (RUS)
Europe
22.86   Yelizaveta Bryzhina (UKR)
Europe
23.37   Cydonie Mothersille (CAY)
Americas
23.41
400 metres
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  Amantle Montsho (BOT)
Africa
49.89
SB
  Debbie Dunn (USA)
Americas
50.21   Tatyana Firova (RUS)
Europe
50.45
800 metres
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  Janeth Jepkosgei (KEN)
Africa
1:57.88   Kenia Sinclair (JAM)
Americas
1:58.16
SB
  Mariya Savinova (RUS)
Europe
1:58.27
1500 metres
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  Hind Déhiba Chahyd (FRA)
Europe
4:19.78   Nicole Edwards (CAN)
Americas
4:21.34   Christin Wurth-Thomas (USA)
Americas
4:21.46
3000 metres
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  Meseret Defar (ETH)
Africa
9:03.33   Shannon Rowbury (USA)
Americas
9:04.82   Malindi Elmore (CAN)
Americas
9:04.82
5000 metres
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  Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)
Africa
16:05.74   Sentayehu Ejigu (ETH)
Africa
16:07.11   Molly Huddle (USA)
Americas
16:08.60
100 metre hurdles
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  Sally Pearson (AUS)
Asia-Pacific
12.65   Lolo Jones (USA)
Americas
12.66   Perdita Felicien (CAN)
Americas
12.68
400 metre hurdles
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  Nickiesha Wilson (JAM)
Americas
54.52
SB
  Muizat Ajoke Odumosu (NGR)
Africa
54.59
NR
  Vania Stambolova (BUL)
Europe
54.89
3000 metre steeplechase
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  Yuliya Zarudneva (RUS)
Europe
9:25.46
CR
  Milcah Chemos Cheywa (KEN)
Africa
9:25.84   Sofia Assefa (ETH)
Africa
9:29.53
4 × 100 metre relay
details
Americas
  Cydonie Mothersille (CYM)
  Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (BAH)
  Shalonda Solomon (USA)
  Kelly-Ann Baptiste (TRI)
43.07 Europe
  Olesya Povh (UKR)
  Nataliya Pohrebnyak (UKR)
  Mariya Ryemyen (UKR)
  Yelizaveta Bryzhina (UKR)
43.77 Africa
  Ruddy Zang Milama (GAB)
  Agnes Osazuwa (NGR)
  Oludamola Osayomi (NGR)
  Blessing Okagbare (NGR)
43.88
4 × 400 metre relay
details
Americas
  Shericka Williams (JAM)
  Debbie Dunn (USA)
  Nickiesha Wilson (JAM)
  Christine Amertil (BAH)
3:26.37 Europe
  Kseniya Ustalova (RUS)
  Antonina Krivoshapka (RUS)
  Libania Grenot (ITA)
  Tatyana Firova (RUS)
3:26.58 Africa
  Folashade Abugan (NGR)
  Amy Mbacké Thiam (SEN)
  Ndeye Soumah (SEN)
  Amantle Montsho (BWA)
3:27.99
High jump
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  Blanka Vlašić (CRO)
Europe
2.05
CR, =WL
  Emma Green (SWE)
Europe
1.95   Levern Spencer (LCA)
Americas
  Nadiya Dusanova (UZB)
Asia-Pacific
1.88
Pole vault
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  Svetlana Feofanova (RUS)
Europe
4.70
CR
  Lisa Ryzih (GER)
Europe
4.60   Fabiana Murer (BRA)
Americas
4.50
Long jump
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  Yuliya Tarasova (UZB)
Asia-Pacific
6.70   Yargelis Savigne (CUB)
Americas
6.63   Olga Rypakova (KAZ)
Asia-Pacific
6.60
SB
Triple jump
details
  Olga Rypakova (KAZ)
Asia-Pacific
15.25
CR, AR
  Olha Saladukha (UKR)
Europe
14.70   Yargelis Savigne (CUB)
Americas
14.63
Shot put
details
  Valerie Adams (NZL)
Asia-Pacific
20.86
SB
  Nadzeya Astapchuk (BLR)
Europe
20.18   Gong Lijiao (CHN)
Asia-Pacific
20.13
SB
Discus throw
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  Li Yanfeng (CHN)
Asia-Pacific
63.79   Sandra Perković (CRO)
Europe
63.29   Yarelis Barrios (CUB)
Americas
62.58
Hammer throw
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  Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)
Europe
73.88   Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)
Asia-Pacific
73.69   Yipsi Moreno (CUB)
Americas
72.73
Javelin throw
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  Sunette Viljoen (RSA)
Africa
62.21 1   Kimberley Mickle (AUS)
Asia-Pacific
61.36
SB
  Linda Stahl (GER)
Europe
60.37

1   Mariya Abakumova (RUS) of Europe originally won the gold medal with 68.14, but she was disqualified in 2018 after her results from 2008 to 2016 were deleted after a retest of her samples from the 2012 Olympics were positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (oral turanibol).

Score Table

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Event Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Europe
100 metres M 4 0 7 5 3 2 8 6
W 6 2 8 7 3 1 5 4
200 metres M 6 3 8 7 4 2 5 0
W 4 2 6 5 3 1 8 7
400 metres M 4 1 8 7 3 2 6 5
W 8 4 7 5 2 1 6 3
800 metres M 8 2 5 4 6 1 7 3
W 8 3 7 1 4 2 6 5
1500 metres M 8 7 6 3 2 1 5 4
W 2 1 7 6 5 3 8 4
3000 metres M 7 5 8 6 4 2 3 1
W 8 5 7 6 4 2 0 3
5000 metres M 7 5 8 2 4 0 6 3
W 8 7 6 2 4 0 5 3
3000 metre steeplechase M 8 7 2 1 4 3 6 5
W 7 6 5 4 2 1 8 3
110/100 metre hurdles M 4 3 8 1 6 2 7 5
W 3 2 7 6 8 1 5 4
400 metre hurdles M 5 4 7 6 2 1 8 3
W 7 2 8 3 4 0 6 5
4 × 100 metres relay M 7 15 11 0
W 7 15 3 11
4 × 400 metres relay M 7 15 3 11
W 7 15 3 11
Track Points M 112 139 68 107
W 109 143 57 120
High jump M 5 0 7 3 8 4 6 2
W 2 1 5.5 3 5.5 4 8 7
Pole vault M 2 0 6 3 8 4 7 5
W 2 0 6 4 5 3 8 7
Long jump M 3 1 8 4 5 2 7 6
W 3 1 7 2 8 6 5 4
Triple jump M 5 3 7 4 2 1 8 6
W 3 2 6 1 8 5 7 4
Shot put M 4 2 8 5 6 3 7 0
W 2 1 5 4 8 6 7 3
Discus throw M 2 1 4 3 7 6 8 5
W 2 1 6 4 8 5 7 3
Hammer throw M 2 1 4 3 7 6 8 5
W 2 0 6 4 7 3 8 5
Javelin throw M 7 3 2 1 5 4 8 6
W 8 5 4 3 7 0 0 6
Field Points M 39 71 78 100
W 33 68.5 87.5 96
Total Points M 151 210 146 207
W 144 214.5 145.5 203
Event Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Europe
295 424.5 292.5 410

Results

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Basic Information Guide – IAAF Continental Cup, 2010 – Split, CRO (formerly World Cup in Athletics)". IAAF. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  2. ^ Almost 400 children on Riva, Marino has been presented to the public! Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Split 2010 CC (2010-05-22). Retrieved on 2010-05-28.
  3. ^ "Blanka: Fala publici koja mi je uljepšala život!". split2010cc.com (in Croatian). 5 September 2010. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  4. ^ Team Selection, Scoring, Implements and Prize Money – IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup. IAAF (2010-04-01). Retrieved on 2010-08-13.
  5. ^ "IAAF: Americas awarded the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech- News - iaaf.org". iaaf.org.
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