TRACK AND FIELD / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES : Late Arrival Wysocki Has Some Catching Up to Do

After learning 48 hours earlier that she would replace injured 1,500-meter runner Regina Jacobs on the U.S. team in track and field’s World Championships, Ruth Wysocki of Canyon Lake arrived here Saturday night and was on the Ullevi Stadium track Sunday afternoon for the first heat. No problem. She easily qualified for today’s semifinal.

“When I met my suite mates at the village after breakfast this morning, I told them, ‘I’m not usually this unsociable, but I’m going back to bed,’ ” she said to reporters. “After lunch, I went back to bed again.

“But I guarantee you I’ll be up until 3 tomorrow morning. If any of you get bored, give me a call. I’ve got a deck of cards.”

Wysocki is not easily fazed. At 38, she is the team’s oldest member.

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As expected, the United States’ Dan O’Brien leads after the first five events in the decathlon, but his 4,528 points are 190 short of his world-record pace. . . . Hungary’s Balazs Kiss, the NCAA champion from USC, finished fourth in the hammer throw at 259 feet 3 inches. The United States’ Lance Deal was fifth at 258-1, the best finish for an American in the event at a major meet since Harold Connolly won the 1956 Summer Olympics. . . . For the first time since those Games, three Americans--Brandon Rock, Jose Parrilla and Mark Everett--have advanced to the 800-meter finals. Equally surprising, no Kenyan did, although the favorite is Wilson Kipketer. He is a Kenya native who married a Danish woman and competes for Denmark. . . . Officials confessed that the women marathoners ran 400 meters too few Saturday. They were supposed to open with four laps inside the stadium but were directed outside after only three.