2010 in athletics | |
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Major world events | 2010 World Indoor Championships |
World records set | 10 |
New competitions | IAAF Diamond League |
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In 2010 there was no obvious, primary athletics championship, as neither the Summer Olympics nor the World Championships in Athletics occurred in the year. The foremost championships to be held in 2010 included: the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 2010 European Athletics Championships, 2010 African Championships in Athletics, and Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [1]
Two major competitions debuted in new formats. The IAAF Diamond League – a worldwide expansion on the European-centred IAAF Golden League concept – saw a schedule of fourteen one-day meetings with some of the sport's most prominent athletes centrally contracted to a track and field series for the first time. [2] The second competition was the renamed IAAF Continental Cup (formerly World Cup) which had its format simplified: previously a contest between several countries and continents, it comprised only four teams (Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia/Oceania). [3]
Event | Athlete | Nation | Performance | Meeting | Place | Date |
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800 m | David Rudisha | Kenya | 1:41.09 | ISTAF | Berlin, Germany | 22 August |
800 m | David Rudisha | Kenya | 1:41.01 | Rieti Meeting | Rieti, Italy | 29 August |
10 km (road) | Leonard Komon | Kenya | 26:44 | Singelloop | Utrecht, Netherlands | 26 September |
15 km (road) | Leonard Komon | Kenya | 41:13 | Zevenheuvelenloop | Nijmegen, Netherlands | 21 November |
20 km (road) | Zersenay Tadese | Eritrea | 55:21+ | Lisbon Half Marathon | Lisbon, Portugal | 21 March |
Half marathon | Zersenay Tadese | Eritrea | 58:23 | Lisbon Half Marathon | Lisbon, Portugal | 21 March |
25 km (road) | Samuel Kosgei | Kenya | 1:11:50 [4] | BIG 25 Berlin | Berlin, Germany | 9 May |
Triple jump (indoor) | Teddy Tamgho | France | 17.90 m | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 14 March |
Indoor heptathlon | Ashton Eaton | United States | 6499 pts [5] [6] | NCAA Indoor Championship | Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States | 12–13 March |
Event | Athlete | Nation | Performance | Meeting | Place | Date |
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Hammer throw | Anita Włodarczyk | Poland | 78.30 | Enea Cup | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 6 June |
25 km (road) | Mary Keitany | Kenya | 1:19:53 [4] | BIG 25 Berlin | Berlin, Germany | 9 May |
4 × 800 m relay (indoor) | Tatyana Andrianova Oksana Spasovhodskaja Yelena Kofanova Yevgeniya Zinurova | Russia (Moscow-1 Team) | 8:12.41 [7] | Russian Indoor Championships | Moscow, Russia | 28 February |
The highest profile doping case in 2010 was that of 400 m Olympic and World Champion LaShawn Merritt. He failed three out-of-competition tests in October and December 2009, and January 2010, testing positive for Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on each occasion. He claimed that he had inadvertently ingested the substance via an over the counter sex enhancement drug he was using at the time (ExtenZe). [9] Initially set for a two-year ban, [10] he received a reduced 21-month suspension from October 2010 to July 2012 as a result of his co-operation with anti-doping authorities. However, the seriousness of the doping substance meant he was automatically banned from defending his title at the 2012 London Olympics. [11]
A major investigation by the Guardia Civil into doping in Spain, known as Operación Galgo, began in April 2010 and made headline news in December following a number of arrests. [12] [13] Marta Domínguez, world steeplechase champion and vice president of the Spanish Athletics Federation, was implicated in the blood doping ring. [14] Manuel Pascua Piqueras, coach to a number of prominent runners, admitted to doping his athletes, while Alemayehu Bezabeh (the 2009 European Cross Country Champion) admitted to using banned substances. [15]
Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser received a six-month ban after a positive test for pain relief narcotic oxycodone at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting. Her coach Stephen Francis, who had the painkiller on prescription for his kidney stones, gave the banned substance to his athlete to relieve her toothache. [16] [17]
Another sprinter Laverne Jones-Ferrette ran the fastest 60 metres in a decade in February, but was absent from outdoor competition in 2010. This was later explained by the revelation that she had failed a drug test for clomiphene on February 16. The substance can be used as a complement to steroid cycles, but can also act as a fertility drug and Jones-Ferrette (who announced her pregnancy in November) claimed this was the intended usage. She was banned from competition for six months, lasting from April to September, and lost her silver medal from the World Indoor Championships. [18] Bobby-Gaye Wilkins won a relay medal for Jamaica at the same championships, but she was also stripped of her medal after testing positive for andarine – a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM). [19]
A series of athletes were disqualified from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi as a result of in-competition testing. Nigerians Samuel Okon and Oludamola Osayomi (the 100 m gold medallist) were banned for using the stimulant methylhexanamine. A third Nigerian, Folashade Abugan who won silver medals in the 400 m individual and relay races, failed a drug test for traces of testosterone prohormone and was stripped of her honours [20] Indian racewalker Rani Yadav was also banned after testing positive for 19-Norandrosterone. [21]
Retired American sprinters Ramon Clay and Crystal Cox received retrospective bans from the United States Anti-Doping Agency due to their steroid usage relating to the BALCO scandal period from 2001 to 2004. Cox was stripped of her Olympic relay gold medal as a result. [22] [23] Former Jamaican runner Raymond Stewart was given a life ban from coaching for trafficking and administering banned substances as part of an ongoing investigation. Olympic Bahraini sprinter Roqaya Al-Gassra was banned for two years. [24] Other prominent athletes to receive suspensions included South American triple jump champion Johana Triviño (two years for stanozolol), Asian indoor champion Munira Saleh (life ban for second violation with stanozolol), [25] and 2010 CAC Games medallist Zudikey Rodríguez (methylhexanamine). [26]
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