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Team USA wins two gold, one silver in Day 2 at World Indoors
Michelle Collins’ American-record, gold-medal performance in the
200
meters and a 1-3 finish in the men’s long jump highlighted action
for
Team USA Saturday at the 2003 World Indoor Track & Field Championships
in Birmingham, England.
Running out of lane 6, Collins made her first individual World
Championships medal performance one to remember. The 32-year-old crushed
the field in the women’s 200 meters with a time of 22.18 seconds,
shattering the American record that she had set in Friday’s semifinal
round (22.31) and posting the fastest time in the world since 1995.
Muriel Hurtis of France was second in 22.54, and Anastasiya
Kapachinskaya of Russia finished third in 22.80.
Dwight Phillips jumped an indoor personal best of 8.29m/27-2.5 to win
his first world title in an exciting men’s long jump competition
over
Yago Lamela of Spain in second place (8.28/27-2) and Team USA’s
Miguel
Pate in third (8.21m/26-11.25). All three men posted their farthest
marks in the sixth and final round of jumping.
The 2001 USA indoor champion, Phillips had taken the lead with a mark
of
8.23m/27-0 in the second round. Lamela was in second place heading into
the final round of jumps, but a sixth-round jump of 8.21 by Pate bumped
the Spaniard to third. Lamela posted his farthest jump, 8.28m/27-2 on
his final attempt, but Phillips then one-upped him by just centimeter.
Tom Pappas put himself in the driver’s seat in the men’s
heptathlon
Saturday after four events with a phenomenal, career-best day that put
him nearly 200 points ahead of defending champion Roman Seberle of the
Czech Republic. The world’s second-ranked decathlete, Pappas won
the 60
meters in a personal-best time 6.89 seconds, was third in the long jump
with a PR 7.56/24-9.75, was second in the shot put with a PR
16.23m/53-3, and won the high jump with a best of 2.17m/7-1.5. His total
of 3700 points at day’s end put him well ahead of Seberle’s
3503 heading
into Sunday’s final three events.
In other finals on Saturday, Derek Miles (ex-Bella
Vista HS, Fair Oaks) was fifth in the men’s pole vault (5.70m/18-8.5)
and Charles Austin was 10th in the men’s high jump
(2.20m/7-2.5). Those events were won by Tim Lobinger of Germany
(5.80m/19-0.5) and Stefan Holm of Sweden (2.35m/7-8.5), respectively.
Qualifying rounds generally went according to plan for the Americans
on
Saturday. In her first hurdles appearance and World Indoors, Gail
Devers (ex-Sweetwater HS, Nat'l City) moved through the first two rounds
in the women’s 60m hurdles, as did Melissa Morrison.
Devers ran a Championships-record 7.80 to win her
semifinal while Morrison was fourth in her semi in 8.05. In the men’s
hurdles, Allen Johnson was fourth in his race in 7.57 to advance.
World record holder Regina Jacobs (Argyll Academy
HS, No Hollywood)posted the day’s fastest qualifier in the women’s
1,500m (4:09.07) to move to Sunday’s final, and
David Krummenacker advanced by placing second in his men’s 800m
semifinal in
1:47.30. Women’s high jumpers Tisha Waller and Amy
Acuff (ex-UCLA) both made it
through qualifying, clearing 1.95m/6-4.75 to guarantee themselves spots
the final. Waller had just one miss on the day.
Also in good form Saturday was the men’s 4x400m relay team of James
Davis (ex-Wood HS, Vacaville), Derrick Brew, Milton Campbell
and Jerome Young, who ran a world-leading 3:04.17 in qualifying, posting
the fourth-fastest indoor
relay time in history. Americans also advanced to the finals of the open
400m. Tyree Washington (ex-La Sierra HS, Riverside)
was second in his men’s semi in 46.50 and Monique
Hennagan was third in her women’s semifinal heat in an indoor personal
best of 51.89.
The notable exception to the qualifying success was in the women’s
pole
vault. Defending World Indoor silver medalist Kellie Suttle moved onto
the final automatically by clearing 4.35m/14-3.5, but world record
holder Stacy Dragila (ex-Placer HS, Auburn) failed
at all three of her attempts at
4.30m/14-1.25 and did not qualify. Sarah Schwald was sixth
in her
semifinal of the women’s 1,500m in 4:14.13 and did not advance.
In spite of some bad luck in the first two days of competition, Team
USA
led the medal table heading into Sunday with seven medals – three
gold,
two silver and two bronze. Great Britain and Northern Ireland was second
with three medals – two gold and one bronze.
TV REMINDER: The 2003 World Indoor Championships will be broadcast from
2-3 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, March 16 on ESPN2.
Team US Medal Count
2003 World Indoor Championships – after two days
Gold
Men’s 60m Justin Gatlin (6.46)
Women’s 200m Michelle Collins (22.18 AR)
Men’s long jump Dwight Phillips (8.29m/27-2.5)
Silver
Women’s 60m Angela Williams (ex-Chino HS/USC)
(7.16)
Men’s shot put John Godina (ex-UCLA) (21.23m/69-8)
Bronze
Women’s 60m Torri Edwards (7.17) (ex-Pomona
HS/USC)
Men’s long jump Miguel Pate (8.21m/26-11.25)
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