- Allyson Felix signs pro contract with adidas.
Rich
Gonzalez' insider story on DyeStatCal.
- W-200 quarters - Torri Edwards 22.66
and Kelli White 22.67 win 200m quarterfinal heats, but Allyson Felix
23.33 is sixth and out by 0.04.
- W-200 1st round - Allyson Felix 23.46
-0.6 is fourth in heat, but advances to quarter finals at 8 pm Paris
time. 100m champion Kelli White 22.97 +0.2 wins her heat. Torri Edwards
22.83 -0.7 is second in her heat and advances. Another US high school
runner, Virgil Hodge of Washington Irving HS NY, ran for St. Kitt's
and Neves. She was sixth in Felix' heat in 24.17 and did not advance.
- M-400H round 1 - Joey Woody 48.53
is the 2nd fastest heat winner (Olympic champion Felix Sanchez 48.43).
Eric Thomas 48.87 also advances.
- M-PV prelims - Derek Miles, Tim Mack
advance to finals. Jeff Hartwig out.
- W-100H semis - Jenny Adams, Miesha
McKelvy advance to the finals; Gail Devers does not. In a heat with
two false starts and two stand ups, Devers breaks fast but slips to
third.
- M-400 final - USA goes 1-2-6 with
Jerome Young 44.50, Tyree Washington 44.77 and Calvin Harrison 44.96.
- Decathlon 400 - Tom Pappas USA 47.58
runs a PR, but Dmitry Karpov KAZ goes a tick faster at 47.33 to hold
his lead at the end of Day 1, 4599 to 4546. USA's Bryan Clay did not
finish and dropped from 3rd to 16th overall.
- Decathlon HJ - Tom Pappas 6-10.25
was second in the high jump to move into second place with 3616 points
after four events. Dmitry Karpov KAZ 6-11.5 was first in the high jump
and first overall with 3657 points. USA's Bryan Clay, the previous leader,
slipped to third with 3529 points.
- W-5000 prelim - Lauren Fleshman ran
a personal best 15:12.71 but was 11th and out.
Paris World's 2003
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