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Track & Field News Predictions: Men'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 his being replaced by an alternate in the days
immediately preceding the start of his event.
Note also that some of the names/orderings given here post-date those mailed to subscribers in the eTN series of Previews.
100 Meters
1. Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
2. Asafa Powell (Jamaica)
3. Tyson Gay (US)
4. Walter Dix (US)
5. Richard Thompson (Trinidad)
6. Derrick Atkins (Bahamas)
7. Darvis Patton (US)
8. Michael Frater (Jamaica)
9. Marc Burns (Trinidad)
10. Churandy Martina (Netherlands Antilles)
200 Meters
1. Usain Bolt (Jamaica)
2. Walter Dix (US)
3. Wallace Spearmon (US)
4. Shawn Crawford (US)
5. Richard Thompson (Trinidad)
6. Marvin Anderson (Jamaica)
7. Chris Williams (Jamaica)
8. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (Norway)
9. Brian Dzingai (Zimbabwe)
10. Brendan Christian (Antigua)
400 Meters
1. Jeremy Wariner (US)
2. LaShawn Merritt (US)
3. Chris Brown (Bahamas)
4. Tyler Christopher (Canada)
5. Martyn Rooney (Great Britain)
6. Ricardo Chambers (Jamaica)
7. David Neville (US)
8. Andretti Bain (Bahamas)
9. James Godday (Nigeria)
10. Renny Quow (Trinidad)
800 Meters
1. Abubaker Kaki (Sudan)
2. Yuriy Borzakovskiy (Russia)
3. Yeiman López (Cuba)
4. Youssef Kamel (Bahrain)
5. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (South Africa)
6. Gary Reed (Canada)
7. Abraham Chepkirwok (Uganda)
8. Wilfred Bungei (Kenya)
9. Alfred Kirwa Yego (Kenya)
10. Nick Symmonds (US)
1500 Meters
1. Bernard Lagat (US)
2. Augustine Choge (Kenya)
3. Asbel Kiprop (Kenya)
4. Rashid Ramzi (Bahrain)
5. Deresse Mekonnen (Ethiopia)
6. Tarek Boukensa (Algeria)
7. Bilal Mansour Ali (Bahrain)
8. Arturo Casado (Spain)
9. Juan Carlos Higuero (Spain)
10. Antar Zerguelaine (Algeria)
Steeple
1. Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya)
2. Brimin Kipruto (Kenya)
3. Richard Matelong (Kenya)
4. Tareq Mubarak Taher (Bahrain)
5. Mustafa Mohamed (Sweden)
6. Bob Tahri (France)
7. Hamid Ezzine (Morocco)
8. Benjamin Kiplagat (Uganda)
9. Brahim Taleb (Morocco)
10. Abdelkader Hachlaf (Morocco)
5000 Meters
1. Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)
2. Bernard Lagat (US)
3. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya)
4. Edwin Soi (Kenya)
5. Tariku Bekele (Ethiopia)
6. Moses Kipsiro (Uganda)
7. Abreham Cherkos (Ethiopia)
8. Rashid Ramzi (Bahrain)
9. Craig Mottram (Australia)
10. Matt Tegenkamp (US)
10,000 Meters
1. Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)
2. Sileshi Sihine (Ethiopia)
3. Martin Mathathi (Kenya)
4. Moses Masai (Kenya)
5. Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia)
6. Zersenay Tadese (Eritrea)
7. Micah Kogo (Kenya)
8. Boniface Kiprop (Uganda)
9. Abdi Abdirahman (US)
10. Fabian Naasi (Tanzania)
110 Hurdles
1. Dayron Robles (Cuba)
2. Xiang Liu (China)
3. David Oliver (US)
4. Terrence Trammell (US)
5. David Payne (US)
6. Dongpeng Shi (China)
7. Sergiy Demydyuk (Ukraine)
8. Ladji Doucouré (France)
9. Andy Turner (Great Britain)
10. Petr Svoboda (Czech Republic)
400 Hurdles
1. Kerron Clement (US)
2. Bershawn Jackson (US)
3. Angelo Taylor (US)
4. LJ van Zyl (South Africa)
5. Periklís Iakovákis (Greece)
6. Danny McFarlane (Jamaica)
7. Marek Plawgo (Poland)
8. Isa Phillips (Jamaica)
9. Pieter de Villiers (South Africa)
10. Alwyn Myburgh (South Africa)
Marathon
1. Sammy Wanjiru (Kenya)
2. Mubarak Shami (Qatar)
3. Abderrahim Goumri (Morocco)
4. Martin Lel (Kenya)
5. Robert M. Cheruiyot (Kenya)
6. Viktor Röthlin (Switzerland)
7. Ryan Hall (US)
8. Tsuyoshi Ogata (Japan)
9. Jaouad Gharib (Morocco)
10. Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia)
20K Walk
1. Francisco Fernández (Spain)
2. Yohann Diniz (France)
3. Eder Sánchez (Mexico)
4. Jefferson Pérez (Ecuador)
5. Sergey Morozov (Russia)
6. Jared Tallent (Australia)
7. Ilya Markov (Russia)
8. Erik Tysse (Norway)
9. Juan Manuel Molina (Spain)
10. Robert Heffernan (Ireland)
50K Walk
1. Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia)
2. Alex Schwazer (Italy)
3. Erik Tysse (Norway)
4. Yohann Diniz (France)
5. Trond Nymark (Norway)
6. Mikel Odriozola (Spain)
7. Horacio Nava (Mexico)
8. Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia)
9. Tianfeng Si (China)
10. Jesús Sánchez (Mexico)
4 x 100 Relay
1. United States
2. Jamaica
3. Great Britain
4. Trinidad
5. Brazil
6. Germany
7. France
8. Japan
9. Poland
10. Italy
4 x 400 Relay
1. United States
2. Bahamas
3. Jamaica
4. Great Britain
5. Poland
6. Russia
7. Australia
8. Cuba
9. France
10. Belgium
High Jump
1. Andrey Silnov (Russia)
2. Stefan Holm (Sweden)
3. Yaroslav Rybakov (Russia)
4. Linus Thörnblad (Sweden)
5. Kyriakos Ioannou (Cyprus)
6. Victor Moya (Cuba)
7. Jesse Williams (US)
8. Vyacheslav Voronin (Russia)
9. Germaine Mason (Great Britain)
10. Mikaël Hanany (France)
Pole Vault
1. Yevgeniy Lukyanenko (Russia)
2. Brad Walker (US)
3. Steve Hooker (Australia)
4. Igor Pavlov (Russia)
5. Danny Ecker (Germany)
6. Maksym Mazuryk (Ukraine)
7. Derek Miles (US)
8. Romain Mesnil (France)
9. Tim Lobinger (Germany)
10. Denys Yurchenko (Ukraine)
Long Jump
1. Irving Saladino (Panama)
2. Loúis Tsátoumas (Greece)
3. Mohamed Al-Khuwalidi (Saudi Arabia)
4. Hussein Al-Sabee (Saudi Arabia)
5. Ibrahin Camejo (Cuba)
6. Godfrey Mokoena (South Africa)
7. Brian Johnson (US)
8. Miguel Pate (US)
9. Andrew Howe (Italy)
10. Gable Garenamotse (Botswana)
Triple Jump
1. Phillips Idowu (Great Britain)
2. Nelson Évora (Portugal)
3. Aarik Wilson (United States)
4. Jadel Gregório (Brazil)
5. David Giralt (Cuba)
6. Dmitrij Val'ukevič (Slovakia)
7. Randy Lewis (Grenada)
8. Osniel Tosca (Cuba)
9. Leevan Sands (Bahamas)
10. Danila Burkenya (Russia)
Shot
1. Adam Nelson (US)
2. Reese Hoffa (US)
3. Christian Cantwell (US)
4. Andrey Mikhnevich (Belarus)
5. Rutger Smith (Holland)
6. Tomas Majewski (Poland)
7. Scott Martin (Australia)
8. Dorian Scott (Jamaica)
9. Ivan Yushkov (Russia)
10. Yuriy Belov (Belarus)
Discus
1. Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania)
2. Gerd Kanter (Estonia)
3. Ehsan Hadadi (Iran)
4. Robert Harting (Germany)
5. Mario Pestano (Spain)
6. Rutger Smith (Holland)
7. Piotr Malachowski (Poland)
8. Ian Waltz (US)
9. Frantz Kruger (Finland)
10. Frank Casańas (Spain)
Hammer
1. Ivan Tikhon (Belarus)
2. Koji Murofushi (Japan)
3. Vadim Devyatovskiy (Belarus)
4. Primoz Kozmus (Slovenia)
5. Krisztián Pars (Hungary)
6. Valeriy Svyatokho (Belarus)
7. Marco Lingua (Italy)
8. Yevgeniy Vinogradov (Ukraine)
9. Eşref Apak (Turkey)
10. Kiril Ikonnikov (Russia)
Javelin
1. Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway)
2. Tero Pitkämäki (Finland)
3. Vadims Vasiļevskis (Latvia)
4. Sergey Makarov (Russia)
5. Tero Järvenpää (Finland)
6. Magnus Arvidsson (Sweden)
7. Robert Oosthuizen (South Africa)
8. Scott Russell (Canada)
9. Teemu Wirkkala (Finland)
10. Mihkel Kukk (Estonia)
Decathlon
1. Bryan Clay (US)
2. Andrey Kravchenko (Belarus)
3. Dmitriy Karpov (Kazakhstan)
4. Maurice Smith (Jamaica)
5. Roman Šebrle (Czech Republic)
6. Trey Hardee (US)
7. Tom Pappas (US)
8. Leonel Suárez (Cuba)
9. Aleksey Sysoyev (Russia)
10. Aleksey Drozdov (Russia)
© Track & Field News, 2008
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