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Track & Field News Predictions: Women's Top 10s
Picks based on the best information available to T&FN by August 8. The presence of an athlete’s name here doesn't preclude her being replaced by an alternate in the days immediately preceding the start of her event.
100 Meters
1. Lauryn Williams (US)
2. Kerron Stewart (Jamaica)
3. Muna Lee (US)
4. Sherone Simpson (Jamaica)
5. Torri Edwards (US)
6. Shelly-Ann Fraser (Jamaica)
7. Chandra Sturrup (Bahamas)
8. Debbie Ferguson McKenzie (Bahamas)
9. Kim Gevaert (Belgium)
10. Damola Osayomi (Nigeria)
200 Meters
1. Allyson Felix (US)
2. Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica)
3. Muna Lee (US)
4. Kerron Stewart (Jamaica)
5. Sherone Simpson (Jamaica)
6. Marshevet Hooker (US)
7. Debbie Ferguson McKenzie (Bahamas)
8. Muriel Hurtis-Houairi (France)
9. Kim Gevaert (Belgium)
10. Rakia Al-Gasara (Bahrain)
400 Meters
1. Sanya Richards (US)
2. Christine Ohuruogu (Great Britain)
3. Novlene Williams-Mills (Jamaica)
4. Nicola Sanders (Great Britain)
5. Shericka Williams (Jamaica)
6. Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (Russia)
7. Mary Wineberg (US)
8. Dee Dee Trotter (US)
9. Rosemarie Whyte (Jamaica)
10. Yuliya Gushchina (Russia)
800 Meters
1. Pamela Jelimo (Kenya)
2. Janeth Jepkosgei (Kenya)
3. Hasna Benhassi (Morocco)
4. Zulia Calatayud (Cuba)
5. Tatyana Andrianova (Russia)
6. Lucia Klocová (Slovakia)
7. Yuliya Krevsun (Ukraine)
8. Maria Mutola (Mozambique)
9. Svetlana Klyuka (Russia)
10. Marilyn Okoro (Great Britain)
1500 Meters
1. Maryam Jamal (Bahrain)
2. Gelete Burka (Ethiopia)
3. Shannon Rowbury (US)
4. Daniela Yordanova (Bulgaria)
5. Anna Alminova (Russia)
6. Iryna Lishchynska (Ukraine)
7. Sarah Jamieson (Australia)
8. Viola Kibiwott (Kenya)
9. Natalia Rodríguez (Spain)
10. Qing Liu (China)
Steeple
1. Gulnara Galkina (Russia)
2. Yekaterina Volkova (Russia)
3. Tatyana Petrova (Russia)
4. Ruth Bisibori (Kenya)
5. Eunice Jepkorir (Kenya)
6. Donna MacFarlane (Australia)
7. Mekdes Bekele (Ethiopia)
8. Anna Willard (US)
9. Jenny Barringer (US)
10. Marta Domínguez (Spain)
5000 Meters
1. Meseret Defar (Ethiopia)
2. Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)
3. Meselech Melkamu (Ethiopia)
4. Priscah Cherono (Kenya)
5. Elvan Abeylegesse (Turkey)
6. Liliya Shobukhova (Russia)
7. Sylvia Kibet (Kenya)
8. Gulnara Galkina (Russia)
9. Lucy Wangui (Kenya)
10. Jen Rhines (US)
10,000 Meters
1. Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)
2. Ejegayehu Dibaba (Ethiopia)
3. Mestawat Tufa (Ethiopia)
4. Elvan Abeylegesse (Turkey)
5. Kara Goucher (US)
6. Shalane Flanagan (US)
7. Kim Smith (New Zealand)
8. Lornah Kiplagat (Holland)
9. Inga Abitova (Russia)
10. Peninah Arusei (Kenya)
100 Hurdles
1. Lolo Jones (US)
2. Delloreen Ennis-London (Jamaica)
3. Brigitte Foster-Hylton (Jamaica)
4. Susanna Kallur (Sweden)
5. Damu Cherry (US)
6. Josephine Onyia (Spain)
7. Sally McLellan (Australia)
8. Dawn Harper (US)
9. Anay Tejeda (Cuba)
10. Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (Canada)
400 Hurdles
1. Melaine Walker (Jamaica)
2. Tiffany Ross-Williams (US)
3. Sheena Tosta (US)
4. Anastasiya Rabchenyuk (Ukraine)
5. Yekaterina Bikert (Russia)
6. Anna Jesien (Poland)
7. Queen Harrison (US)
8. Nickiesha Wilson (Jamaica)
9. Irina Obedina (Russia)
10. Shevon Stoddart (Jamaica)
Marathon
1. Chunxiu Zhou (China)
2. Catherine Ndereba (Kenya)
3. Gete Wami (Ethiopia)
4. Paula Radcliffe (Great Britain)
5. Xiaolin Zhu (China)
6. Reiko Tosa (Japan)
7. Galina Bogomolova (Russia)
8. Deena Kastor (US)
9. Mara Yamauchi (Great Britain)
10. Yurika Nakamura (Japan)
20K Walk
1. Olga Kaniskina (Russia)
2. Tatyana Sibileva (Russia)
3. Rita Turova (Belarus)
4. Maria Vasco (Spain)
5. Kjersti Plätzer (Norway)
6. Olive Loughnane (Ireland)
7. Jane Saville (Australia)
8. Susana Feitor (Portugal)
9. Sabine Zimmer (Germany)
10. Hong Liu (China)
4 x 100 Relay
1. Jamaica
2. United States
3. Russia
4. Great Britain
5. Belgium
6. Germany
7. Ukraine
8. France
9. Belarus
10. Italy
4 x 400 Relay
1. United States
2. Jamaica
3. Great Britain
4. Russia
5. Belarus
6. Poland
7. France
8. Ukraine
9. Cuba
10. Germany
High Jump
1. Blanka Vlašić (Croatia)
2. Yelena Slesarenko (Russia)
3. Anna Chicherova (Russia)
4. Ariane Friedrich (Germany)
5. Tia Hellebaut (Belgium)
6. Ruth Beitia (Spain)
7. Chaunté Howard (US)
8. Antonietta Di Martino (Italy)
9. Marina Aitova (Kazakhstan)
10. Amy Acuff (US)
Pole Vault
1. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia)
2. Jenn Stuczynski (US)
3. Monika Pyrek (Poland)
4. Svetlana Feofanova (Russia)
5. Yuliya Golubchikova (Russia)
6. Anna Rogowska (Poland)
7. Fabiana Murer (Brazil)
8. Shuying Gao (China)
9. Carolin Hingst (Germany)
10. Silke Spiegelburg (Germany)
Long Jump
1. Naide Gomes (Portugal)
2. Maurren Maggi (Brazil)
3. Tatyana Lebedeva (Russia)
4. Brittney Reese (US)
5. Tatyana Kotova (Russia)
6. Carolina Klüft (Sweden)
7. Keila Costa (Brazil)
8. Grace Upshaw (US)
9. Oksana Udmurtova (Russia)
10. Melis May (Turkey)
Triple Jump
1. Yargelis Savigne (Cuba)
2. Tatyana Lebedeva (Russia)
3. Piyí Devetzí (Greece)
4. Françoise Mbango (Cameroon)
5. Marija Šestak (Slovenia)
6. Olha Saladuha (Ukraine)
7. Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan)
8. Teresa N’Zola Meso (France)
9. Anna Pyatykh (Russia)
10. Yamilé Aldama (Sudan)
Shot
1. Valerie Vili (New Zealand)
2. Nadezhda Ostapchuk (Belarus)
3. Natalya Mikhnevich (Belarus)
4. Nadine Kleinert (Germany)
5. Christina Schwanitz (Germany)
6. Lijiao Gong (China)
7. Olga Ivanova (Russia)
8. Misleidis González (Cuba)
9. Anna Omarova (Russia)
10. Denise Hinrichs (Germany)
Discus
1. Natalya Sadova (Russia)
2. Nicoleta Grasu (Romania)
3. Nataliya Semenova (Ukraine)
4. Aretha Thurmond (US)
5. Yarelis Barrios (Cuba)
6. Yanfeng Li (China)
7. Aimin Song (China)
8. Yania Ferrales (Cuba)
9. Irina Yatchenko (Belarus)
10. Svetlana Saykina (Russia)
Hammer
1. Yipsi Moreno (Cuba)
2. Oksana Menkova (Belarus)
3. Betty Heidler (Germany)
4. Martina Hrasnová (Slovakia)
5. Darya Pchelnik (Belarus)
6. Ivana Brkljačić (Croatia)
7. Yelena Konevtsova (Russia)
8. Marina Smolyachkova (Belarus)
9. Iryna Sekachyova (Ukraine)
10. Kamila Skolimowska (Poland)
Javelin
1. Christine Obergföll (Germany)
2. Barbora Špotáková (Czech Republic)
3. Steffi Nerius (Germany)
4. Goldie Sayers (Great Britain)
5. Mariya Abakumova (Russia)
6. Osleidys Menéndez (Cuba)
7. Justine Robbeson (South Africa)
8. Martina Ratej (Slovenia)
9. Natalia Shimchuk (Belarus)
10. Tetyana Lyakhovich (Ukraine)
Heptathlon
1. Tatyana Chernova (Russia)
2. Lyudmila Blonska (Ukraine)
3. Hyleas Fountain (US)
4. Kelly Sotherton (Great Britain)
5. Olga Kurban (Russia)
6. Austra Skujyté (Lithuania)
7. Anna Bogdanova (Russia)
8. Lilli Schwarzkopf (Germany)
9. Karolina Tyminska (Poland)
10. Jacquelyn Johnson (US)
© Track & Field News 2008
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