European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 10,1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 Csc thin class on the Money writer Ipswich England despite a Cou ple of upsets you would be made Money banking on the favourites in saturday events of the Safe track and Field championships. The favourites pulled through for the most part As the Continental sports conference ran ahead in the unofficial team title Chase. The three Day meet was to conclude sunday. The Csc squad combined for 14 of 20possible titles while four winners set Safe records. The . Sports con Ference athletes took five first places and established one record. The Mediterranean sports conference team turned to coach Craig Dennis for its sole Gold. A big win for the Csc came in themen s open High jump. Odds on favorite Rick Lawson of Tor Rejon could Only stand by and watch As Ramstein s Dan Churilla and Rhein main s Jeff Pickens took shots at his year old Safe High jump Mark. Law son the defending Champ failed in his tries at 6-6 3/4. It feels bad said Lawson who on month ago competed against the world s top High jumper Sweden s Patrick Sjoe Berg in an International meet in Madrid where Lawson jumped 6-8 3/4 2 inches Safe track better than the Safe Mark. Churilla and Pickens missed their at tempts at 6-8 a for the record but placed first and second at 6-6 3/t. Lawson landmark Dawson of Chicksands shared third place with 6-4%. I just could t do it said Lawson who also dismissed the Windy weather As an excuse. The wind was a Little Factor but it was t Churilla sympathized with the sex Champ but said it s Nice when they miss but you still have to compete against the other that meant Pickens who had never been Able to break the 6-5 Barrier. I be always been intimidated by any thing Over 6-5," he said. The Csc also got a big boost fro women s open discus thrower Kathy Loutchko of Pitburg. After establishing a record on her first throw Loutchko unleashed a 133-foot, 10-Inch toss on her fifth of six attempts to surpass her last year s record by a Cou ple of feet. The throw was a Good one. I was really concentrating on using the wind to my advantage she said referring to a stiff Breeze shooting straight Back at the throwers. Throwing against the wind is Best if you know How to use it. If you lower your throw level with the wind it la slice through kind of Iraklion s Andrea Summerlin place second with 111-1 and Alconbury s Stafford took the Bronze with 103-33/4. A big shot in the Csc s Arm came inthe men s seniors division As James leaks of Rhein main and Harry love of Ramstein set records. Leaks scorched a 10.8 in the 100 me ters breaking the 10.9 Mark set five years ago by fellow Rhein mainer Rud Lewis. Chicksands Jeff Madison took the Silver with a 11.1, and Torrejon Scarl Thome took the Bronze with 11.4. Love aired out the shot put for a 45-11 /4, Topping the previous Mark of 43 7 a by Robert Parmelee of Pitburg. Lakenheath s Ernie Lee recorded a 36-7 3/4 for second and Pitburg s Bill Raines Hada 31-10 Viz for third. Men s masters shot Putter Phillip Sut ton of Lindsey cranked a 45-8, bettering Lakenheath thrower Ron Levesque s 44-5% Mark. Lakenheath s Joe Smith took second with 39-113/�. Dennis who won a fold in the 100-meter dash took third at6-7. Chicksands Marie Muse Duncan broke her own women s open Long jump Mark to close out the record setting. She leaped 18-11, bettering her 2-year-Oldmarkof 18-8 /2. Teammate Dorothy Williams also of Chicksands won the Silver with 18-3 a and Ramstein s Mariln Savage took the Bronze at 15-11. Winning defending champions included men s open shot Putter Jerome Gray of Alconbury who had a 46-2 /2 s Renea Toliver defended her women s open 100 Low hurdles title with a 15.2 clocking. Other finals winners saturday were Greenham common s Robert Laing in the men s open 110 hurdles with a 15.3men s seniors Tim Kelly in the 1,500 with a 4 14.7 and George Wesley Ofsan Dahlem with a 5-8 5/s High jump men s masters Gene Sokolowski of Ramstein with a 57.3 400 and Lindsey s Ron Plemons with a 4 37.0 1,500 women s open s Dorothy Williams with a 1 03.1 400 run and Beth Jacobsen of Ramstein with a 5 09.9 in the 1,500 and women s seniors Vanessa Johnson Donna Whitehead and Marjorie Walter of Lindsey. Johnson won the 100, White head the 400 and Walter the 1,500. It was Jacobsen s second Victory of the meet. She out legged upper Heyford s Cathy Dowling to win the women s open 800 Gold medal Friday evening. Soviet expects ., user germans to top Seoul swim by Walt Morrissette staff writer Darmstadt West Germany the coach of the soviet olympic swimming team says he expects the americans the russians and the West germans to dominate the men s swimming events in the Seoul olympics while the East germans should win most of the women s swimming medals. Vladimir Kachoorin made the remarks Here while his team competed in the solar super cup International swimming championships which run through sunday atthe Darmstadt nor bad. The other National teams com Peting Here include Israel West Germany England Australia Egypt Poland Czechoslovakia and Austria. The East German women will be the Best the will win More Gold medals than any other team in the world said Kachoorin through his interpreter soviet National swimming coach Gennady Turetsky. Their men s team will probably win one or two medals. Their chances Are not too the americans have Matt Biondi Winner of the100 meter freestyle at the 1984 los Angeles olympics and Pablo Morales 100 Butterfly Champion in . But As a big Star you Only have Biondi. In West Germany you have Michael Gross who has world records in the 100 and 200 Butterfly and is world record Holder in the 200 freestyle. And we have Igor Polianski 21, is the current world record Holder inthe 100 and 200 backstroke. He swam the 100 in 55.16 seconds in Tallinn user. His record in the 200 Back stroke is 1 58.14 set on May 3, 1985 in Erfort user. We have Good chances in the 400 Medley relay Turetsky said. We were first in the european championships last year at Strasbourg France we Hope to be Strong in this event in Seoul. I also think the australian team will be better than they were in the world championships the coach said. They always swim better in olympic years. Twelve members of the soviet swim team Are Here and All Are expected to compete in Seoul. This Competition is important to us because we Are warming up for our National championships in mos cow july 12-17. But you must know that we have adults Here while most teams have their age group swimmers Here. So the important thing is to compete against their Best Kachurin strives to provide the Best possible Competition opportunities for his swimmers. He Hopes that will some Day include dual meets with the americans showdown that has t happened in the 12 years since the 1976 Montreal olympics. The United states boycotted the 1980 Moscow olympics and the soviets returned the favor during the 1 984 los Angeles games. We Haven t had much information about the Ameri cans in those years but we did see Morales in Berlin he said. We would like to have dual meets with the Ameri cans because it is extremely necessary. The toughest swimmers have to swim against the toughest. We can train a lot but we need the competitive situation to get the said the East German women s Domina Tion is so Complete that it s difficult to motivate our girls or american girls to swim on a world Katchurin explained Why the East German swim program is so have a state physical education system with state financed development on a scientific does t a similar program exist in the user probably we Don t have such a Good tradition i women s swimming our girls have different interests not Only in swimming. But i respect East German swimming. I be seen their swimming using Natalia Zvereva s Success in Tennis As an exam ple Katchurin said Tennis is very popular nowadays. In Tennis we started competing with other this is the first time that the russian team has Cometo Darmstadt where 60 youth teams and a total of 1,661 swimmers Are competing at the 50-meter out door Pool. A this is a very Well organized Competition Katch Kurin said. There Are a lot of swimmers Here and its Arn sports television baseball Kansas City at new York 7 30 . Sunday. Radio baseball Pittsburgh at los Angeles 10 . Sun Day. Very comfortable to participate. We Hope we will be invited in the Wessely chairman of the Darmstadt Waters port club and Host of the event explained the absence of american had american teams Here through 86, then a bomb went off in Paris and they said its too dangerous to come Back Here. As you can see it s Safe to swim Here. But Wessely did recognize an american connection with the meet Here. I would like to thank the Army Darmstadt military Community for supplying bleachers and tents for the Fuifui consecutive year he said. A Phot Seoul threats soviet swimmers Sergej Sabolo nov left and Igo Polianski right Are two world record holders competing this weekend in Darmstadt West Germany. Both Are considered candidates to win Gold medals at the Seoul summer olympics in september. They Are show during a recent soviet East German meet at Tallinn user where Polianski set the world Mark in the 100-meter backstroke at 55.17 seconds
