ZHUKOVSKY _ Patrick Leonard Komon broke a 19-year-old meet record in the 5,000-meters to win the Znamensky Brothers Memorial athletics meet on Sunday.
The Kenyan runner finished in 13 minutes, 17.48 seconds, beating Addis Abebe's old mark from 1989 by 5.29 seconds. Gunter Weidlinger of Austria clocked 13:38.23 for second and Russia's Grigoriy Andreyev another 11.12 seconds behind for third.
Two more meet records were set in the 50th edition of a once-prestigious international competition that has suffered in recent years from a lack of funding.
Blanka Vlasic continued her domination in the women's high jump and won with a leap of 2.03 meters, edging her old meet record from 2006 by one centimeter. It was Vlasic's 26th straight win and the 23rd competition in a row in which she cleared 2 meters.
Vlasic, who set a season-best of 2.05 meters Wednesday in Ostrava, Czech Republic, missed three attempts at 2.06.
Russia's Evgeniy Lukyanenko cleared 5.91 meters in the men's pole vault, one centimeter higher then the old competition mark set in 1996.
Kim Collins of Saint Kitts and Nevis won the men's 100 meters in 10.10 seconds. Qatar's Samuel Francis clocked 10.20 for second, ahead of Olusoji Fasuba of Nigeria in 10.25.
Olympic champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia won the women's long jump with a leap of 6.88 meters. Athens silver medalist Irina Simagina cleared 6.77 for the second ahead of Lyudmila Kolchanova, who jumped 6.75.
"I feel very comfortable now and have no injuries," said Lebedeva, who said she plans to compete in long and triple jump at the Beijing Olympics.
Olympic 800-meter champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy of Russia clocked 1:45.40 seconds to win his favorite distance ahead of compatriot Dmitriy Bogdanov, who was 0.25 seconds behind. Dmitrijis Milkevics of Latvia was third in 1:46.41.
Other winners included Yevgeniya Polyakova of Russia in the women's 100 (11.21 seconds), Dmitrij Valukevic of Slovakia in the men's triple jump (17.46 meters) and Debbie Ferguson McKenzie of Bahamas in the women's 200 meters (22.88 seconds).
