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The 1st IAAF Continental Cup, or formerly known as IAAF World Cup was held recently from 4-5th September in Split, Croatia.
It’s an international gathering of teams from four major continent, Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Athletes are selected based on top performances at IAAF sanctioned meets such as European Athletics Championships, to African Championships.
For this year’s edition, Europe triumphed with 429 points, amassing some 13 golds. On par with the gold medal tally, was second placed Americas, but was trailing in term of points however. They had 419.5 points.
Third goes to Africa, and the last fourth spot was Asia, both having seven golds to show for.
Below are a few videos and results from the meet.
Men 100m – Wind: 0.7 m/s
1 Christophe Lemaitre Europe FRA 10.06 . 0.153
2 Daniel Bailey Americas ANT 10.10 . 0.146
3 Mark Lewis-Francis Europe GBR 10.16 (SB) 0.166
4 Monzavous Edwards Americas USA 10.23 . 0.143
5 Ben Youssef Meité Africa CIV 10.32 . 0.159
6 Yi Lao Asia-Pacific CHN 10.38 . 0.162
7 Aaron Rouge-Serret Asia-Pacific AUS 10.45 . 0.153
. Aziz Zakari Africa GHA DQ . .
Men 200m – Wind: 0.2 m/s
1 Wallace Spearmon Americas USA 19.95 . 0.169
2 Churandy Martina Americas AHO 20.47 . 0.180
3 Ben Youssef Meité Africa CIV 20.51 . 0.228
4 Christian Malcolm Europe GBR 20.75 . 0.161
5 Kenji Fujimitsu Asia-Pacific JPN 20.80 . 0.179
6 Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud Africa EGY 20.94 . 0.152
7 Matt Davies Asia-Pacific AUS 22.03 . 0.304
. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure Europe NOR DNF . . 0.155
Men 400m Hurdles
1 David Greene Europe GBR 47.88 (PB) 0.161
2 Javier Culson Americas PUR 48.08 . 0.169
3 Bershawn Jackson Americas USA 48.62 . 0.161
4 Mamadou Kasse Hann Africa SEN 48.89 (PB) 0.189
5 L.J. van Zyl Africa RSA 49.97 . 0.184
6 Héni Kechi Europe FRA 50.01 . 0.148
7 Brendan Cole Asia-Pacific AUS 50.37 .
8 Takayuki Koike Asia-Pacific JPN 54.45 . 0.183
Men Javelin
1 Andreas Thorkildsen Europe NOR 89.26 (CR)
2 Gerhardus Pienaar Africa RSA 83.17 (SB)
3 Matthias de Zordo Europe GER 82.89 .
4 Jarrod Bannister Asia-Pacific AUS 79.99 .
5 Stuart Farquhar Asia-Pacific NZL 78.29 .
6 Ihab Al Sayed Abdelrahman Africa EGY 74.11 .
7 Arley Ibargüen Americas COL 73.73 .
8 Mike Hazle Americas USA 73.18 .
Women 100m – Wind: 1.4 m/s
1 Kelly-Ann Baptiste Americas TRI 11.05 . 0.174
2 Shalonda Solomon Americas USA 11.09 . 0.167
3 Blessing Okagbare Africa NGR 11.14 . 0.152
4 Verena Sailer Europe GER 11.26 . 0.152
5 Ezinne Okparaebo Europe NOR 11.37 . 0.145
6 Chisato Fukushima Asia-Pacific JPN 11.42 . 0.154
7 Ruddy Zang Milama Africa GAB 11.49 . 0.161
8 Melissa Breen Asia-Pacific AUS 11.58 . 0.181
Women 400m Hurdles
1 Nickiesha Wilson Americas JAM 54.52 (SB) 0.202
2 Muizat Ajoke Odumosu Africa NGR 54.59 (NR) 0.184
3 Vania Stambolova Europe BUL 54.89 . 0.227
4 Natalya Antyukh Europe RUS 55.19 . 0.172
5 Lauren Boden Asia-Pacific AUS 55.30 . 0.174
6 Nicole Leach Americas USA 55.64 . 0.225
7 Hayat Lambarki Africa MAR 59.03 . 0.226
Women High Jump
1 Blanka Vlašic Europe CRO 2.05 (CR)
2 Emma Green Europe SWE 1.95 .
3 Levern Spencer Americas LCA 1.88 .
3 Nadiya Dusanova Asia-Pacific UZB 1.88 .
5 Anna Ustinova Asia-Pacific KAZ 1.88 .
6 Lesyani Mayor Americas CUB 1.78 .
7 Selloane Tsoaeli Africa LES 1.78 (NR)
8 Margaret Simpson Africa GHA 1.72 .
Credit to YouTube user crosscup, MegaTraktorist, TongTana1, MelissaBreen100, and IAAF for the results and logo.
