Israeli Results

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In the women's pole vault, visiting Russian Yulia Golubchikova cleared 4.30 meters for the best result ever achieved in that event in Israel. Ola Dogadko finished second after missing on all three attempts to improve on her Israeli record at 4.05 meters.

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Lights out at Hadar Yosef
By FRANKIE SACHS AND AARON KAPLOWITZ

"This is a wild experience for me, this was crazy," summed up visiting sprinter Sanjay Ayre at the end of an extremely lengthy opening day of the 69th annual Israeli Track & Field Championships at Hadar Yosef in Tel Aviv.

What usually is the highlight of the local track & field season turned into an evening of darkness in more way than one. A pair of power outages that together lasted three-quarters of an hour put a damper on the entire evening.

Ayre, who won the 400 meters in 47.21 seconds, edging new-found friend Naor Greene by eight hundredths of a second, was rather positive about the experience. "A trial like that just makes you stronger... it prepares you for whatever," Ayre said.

However, aside from the spirited Jamaican, the response from all the athletes at the event was overwhelming nothing that they'd seen before and something that they hoped to never see again.

Alex Averbukh cleared 5.65 meters to take the pole vault title as the championships stretched to a late hour not seen at the event in recent years. His jump, which matched his season high, was among the highlights at an otherwise dull evening as far as sports go.

"I thought that it wasn't a power outage, it was a provocation. Now I need to find out who was provoking me," Averbukh joked afterwards. But Israel's top athlete also joined in slamming the conditions that caused him to be at the stadium hours more than he expected.