TRACK AND FIELD / WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES : Chinese Women Keep Struggling

Chinese women, who not only dominated the women’s distance events but also the discussion during track and field’s World Championships at Stuttgart, Germany, in 1993, continued to stagger here Monday.

Comfortably leading in the women’s 10-kilometer walk, Gao Hongmiao was disqualified only steps from entering the stadium after receiving her third red card for violating rules.

An 18-year-old Russian, Irina Stankina, benefited, winning in 42 minutes 13 seconds.

China has only one woman in the fifth World Championships in distance events, entering Dong Zhaoxia in the 5,000 and 10,000. In her first race, the opening round of the 10,000 meters Sunday, she had the 24th-fastest time and failed to qualify for Wednesday’s final.

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After Jackie Joyner-Kersee finished sixth in the long jump Sunday, her coach/husband, Bob Kersee, recommended that she withdraw from this week’s heptathlon. Even though he immediately made reservations for them to fly home Monday, there was some question about whether she would go with him. They argued about it throughout the night before she relented.

Asked to characterize the agreement, Kersee’s assistant coach, hurdler Greg Foster, said: “It was mutual. Sort of. At one point.”

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France’s Marie-Jose Perec will not attempt an unprecedented double in the 400 meters and 400-meter hurdles. Because of a leg injury, she will stop after today’s 400 final.

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The United States has three men in Wednesday’s 400 final, but one of them, Darnell Hall, almost lost his spot after being disqualified for running out of his lane in Monday’s semifinal. His protest was upheld, allowing him to advance along with Michael Johnson and Butch Reynolds.

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Ruth Wysocki, a late entry after replacing injured Regina Jacobs, advanced to Wednesday’s 1,500-meter final with a fifth-place finish in her semifinal heat Monday. She said she wants to learn the end-zone style dance that U.S. teammate Tony Barton did after qualifying for the high jump final. “But I’ll leave my shirt on,” she said.