World Juniors Day 6 Sunday
Closing Day - 34,000 screaming fans

USA wins 3 of 4 relays

USA men run 38.92!
- new World Junior record

M 4x100: The team of Ashton Collins, Wes Felix, Ivory Williams, and Willie Hordge ran into the history books. They put down the home team Jamaica squad 39.15, led by 200 meter gold medal winner Usain Bolt, and Penn Relays champion Trinidad & Tobago team 39.17, led by 100 meter gold winner Darrel Brown. The silver and bronze teams both set new national junior records. The old world record was 39.00, set by USA at Colorado Springs CO in 1983. The new record was a 19th birthday present for Wes Felix.

USA men 3:03.71

M 4x400: Kenneth Ferguson, Darold Williamson, Ashton Collins, and Jonathan Fortenberry held off Jamaica's national junior record 3:04.06. Japan 3:05.80 won bronze.

USA Women 3:29.95 !
W 4x400: Shaking off injuries to Sanya Richards and Allyson Felix, USA missed the world record but won the gold in US junior record time with Christina Hardeman, Monique Henderson, Tiffany Ross, and Lashinda Demus. Great Britain 3:30.46 and Russia 3:30.72 claimed the other medals in front of Jamaica 3:31.90. Lashinda Demus, the world record winning 400m hurdler, started the anchor lap with a slight lead but was caught by Great Britain and Russia before surging past Great Britain anchor Lisa Miller 30 meters from the finish line.

W 4x100: Jamaica 43.40, USA 43.66.

Antwon Hicks 13.42 wins hurdle gold for USA M 110 METRES HURDLES FINAL - Antwon Hicks USA completed his victorious march with a better PR each round by winning gold in 13.42 +2.6, comfortably ahead of Dongpeng Shi CHN 13.58. Kenneth Ferguson USA was fifth in 13.91 after hitting his knee on a hurdle.. photo by Joy Kamani, NSSF team

The big climax will come with the relays, and the stadium will be rocking because Jamaican teams are in contention, as are USA's. The Jamaica-USA rivalry will give it a Penn Relays air, except that this time almost the entire crowd will be roaring for Jamaica. World records are in jeopardy - keep these numbers handy:

The US women's 4x400 relay team has been hit by injuries that make the finals lineup problematic. Running the third leg of the 4x400 semis, Sanya Richards tripped over the railing after successfully handing off to anchor Lashinda Demus. Richards was taken off the track on a stretcher and has a strained ligament in her right ankle. Richards was running the semis after six rounds of open 200 and 400 races only because Allyson Felix and Tiffany Ross also have nagging injuries. That leaves only three of the six declared US 4x400 relay members healthy.

Also of US interest are the men's 110 hurdles (Antwon Hicks and Kenneth Ferguson won the semis), men's 1500 (Chris Lukezic), and women's 5000 (Laura Zeigle and Lindsay Zinn).

Closing session
Time Event Round Status
18:00 M POLE VAULT FINAL - Ukrainian teammates Maksym Mazuryk and Vladyslav Revenko each cleared 5.55 18-2.5, with Mazuryk getting the gold by getting it on his second try to Revenko's third. The next four vaulters cleared 5.40 17-8.75.
18:10 W 100 METRES HURDLES FINAL - Anay Tejada of Cuba blew open the finals with a 12.81 mark that would be a new world junior record except for the +3.4 mps tail wind. Second was Agnieszka Frankowska POL at 13.16. Ashlee Williams USA was fourth at 13.36.
18:25 M 110 METRES HURDLES FINAL - Antwon Hicks USA completed his march through the meet with a better PR each round by winning gold in 13.42 +2.6, comfortably ahead of Dongpeng Shi CHN 13.58. Kenneth Ferguson USA was fifth in 13.91.
18:45 W 1500 METRES FINAL - The Kenya-Ethiopia distance rivalry played out once more as Viola Kibiwot KEN ran a personal best 4:12.57 to prevail over Berhane Herpassa ETH 4:13.59. Kibiwot took the lead at the 1200 meter mark in 3:25.48 after Lisa Dobriskey GBR set the pace through 400 meters in 1:07.09 and 800 meters ion 2:18.76. Dobriskey ended up fourth in 4:14.72, just missing a medal to Olesya Syerva RUS 4:14.32.
19:00 M JAVELIN THROW FINAL - Igor Janik POL 74.16 243-4.
19:05 M 1500 METRES FINAL - Chris Lukezic USA got another PR at 3:46.01, but it was only good enough for 11th in the rarefied air of the world finals. Yassine Bensghir MAR 3:40.72 won gold, taking the lead late from Isaac Songok KEN, who led through 800 meters in 2:03.60 and 1200 meters in 3:00.57.
19:25 W 4 X 100 METRES FINAL - Jamaica 43.40 (Simpson Sherone, Stewart Kerron, McLaughlin Anneisha, Facey Simone) edges USA 43.66 (Williams Lauryn, Williams Ashlee, Solomon Shalonda, Hooker Marshevet), just missing the world junior record by 0.02.
19:45 M 4 X 100 METRES FINAL - New world junior record for USA 38.92 (Collins Ashton, Felix Wes, Williams Ivory, Hordge Willie). National junior records for silver winning Jamaica 39.15 (Hutton Winston, Nicely Orion, Plummer Yhann, Bolt Usain) and bronze winning Trinidad & Tobago (Simpson Chevon, Burns Marc, Holder Kevon, Brown Darrel).
20:05 W 5000 METRES FINAL - Meseret Defar ETH 15:54.94 doubled (she won the 3000 earlier), with Ethiopia also getting silver with Tirunesh Dibaba 15:55.99. Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya was third at 15:56.04.
20:40 W 4 X 400 METRES FINAL - Shaking off injuries to Sanya Richards and Allyson Felix, USA missed the world record but won the gold with Christina Hardeman, Monique Henderson, Tiffany Ross, and Lashinda Demus. Great Britain 3:30.46 and Russia 3:30.72 claimed the other medals in front of Jamaica 3:31.90.
21:00 M 4 X 400 METRES FINAL -

Note: Jamaica is on Eastern time but does not observe daylight saving time in the summer, so the times shown are one hour earlier than Eastern time.
See the Events Index for start lists, results, photos, and commentary. Everything about each event on one page. DyeStat is carrying on-site reports and photos from the NSSF team of Jim Spier, Mike Byrnes, and Joy Kamani.

Lashinda Demus -- In the awards ceremony Thursday, they played video of her world junior record 400H and superimposed Lashinda watching the video.

World Juniors Day 5 Saturday

Day 5 Stories inside
--Jim Spier's event by event analysis
--Mike Byrnes: the recruiting wars at World Juniors
--USATF: Gerraughty grabs bronze at World Junior Champs
--IAAF: World Junior record for Carolina Kluft
--IAAF: It’s Croatia’s day in Kingston
--IAAF: Donovan Bailey: The future of track and field is here in Kingston

Carolina Kluft of Sweden 6,470 hep
is new world junior record - Kluft finished a 2-day tour de force by winning the closing 800 meters in 2:13.55, a personal best and just enough to break the world junior record by 4 points with an overall total of 6,470 points. She won five of the seven events and had five personal best marks in the competition.

Carolina Kluft

photo by Joy Kamani, NSSF team

Relay prelims are smoking!
M 4x400: USA 3:03.56 (world #1) is fastest finalist (Jamaica 3:05.82)
W 4x400: Another country heard from. Russia 3:31.64 edges Jamaica 3:32.20, with USA winning other heat in 3:35.84
W 4x100: two sub-44s - Jamaica 43.85, USA 43.92
M 4x100: 7 sub-40s - Heat 1: Jamaica 39.38, Trinidad & Tobago 39.50, France 39.93. Heat 2: USA 39.18 (world #1), Brazil 39.75, Japan 39.82, Germany 39.85. (7 of 8 finalists ran sub-40)

USA women's 4x400 "photo shoot"	USA men's 4x100
photos by Joy Kamani, NSSF team

Kenneth Ferguson USA is only the second male athlete and third of any sex to make both hurdle finals at a World Junior championship. Plus he ran a 45.9 leadoff leg on the 4x400 relay team in the semis.

A world junior record men's 1500 was run this week, but not in Kingston. Running in the Golden League meet in Monaco Friday, Cornelius Chirchir finished in 3:30.24 for fourth behind world men's record holder Hicham El Gherrouj 3:27.34, Bernard Lagat 3:27.91 and Rui Silva 3:30.07.

Day 5 highlights in Kingston
Time Event Round Status
16:30 W LONG JUMP HEPTATHLON - Carolina Kluft SWE continued her torrid march toward the world junior record by winning with a jump of 6.19 20-3.75 +0.0, her fourth win in the first five events of the heptathlon. This increased her lead overall to 483 points. With only two events left, she has 4758 points; the world junior record is 6466. Diana Pickler USA moved up to 9th place with a jump of 5.54 18-0.5 +0.5 for an overall total of 3972 points.
17:10 W HAMMER THROW FINAL - Ivana Brkljacic CRO 65.39 214-6.
17:45 W HIGH JUMP FINAL - Blanka Vlasic CRO was way the best at 1.96 6-5.
18:00 W 4 X 100 METRES HEATS - The gauntlet is down. First heat: Jamaica 43.85. Second heat: USA 43.92. Jamaica ran with Simpson Sherone, Palmer Nadine, Stewart Kerron, Facey Simone. USA ran with Williams Lauryn, Felix Allyson, Hooker Marshevet, Solomon Shalonda and plans to come back in the finals with Sanya Richards in Solomon's slot.
18:20 M 4 X 100 METRES HEATS - 7 of 8 finalists go sub-40 led by USA 39.18 (Collins Ashton, Felix Wes, Williams Ivory, Hordge Willie), #4 all time world juniors and only 0.18 off the world junior record (USA 39.00 in 1983). Also smoking were Jamaica 39.38 (Hutton Winston, Nicely Orion, Plummer Yhann, Bolt Usain) and Trinidad & Tobago 39.50 (Simpson Chevon, Burns Marc, Holder Kevon, Brown Darrel).
18:40 M 3000 METRES STEEPLECHASE FINAL - Michael Kipyego KEN 8:29.54
18:45 W JAVELIN THROW HEPTATHLON A - Carolina Kluft SWE managed a personal best 46.83 156-11 for 799 points, bringing her to 5557 points with one event to go. That meant she needs 910 points (requiring 2:13.81) in the closing 800 meters to break the world junior record.
18:55 M TRIPLE JUMP FINAL - David Giralt CUB 16.68 54-8.75. Team USA's Rafeeq Curry couldn't get it going and fouled on all three attempts. Photo
19:00 M 10000 METRES FINAL - Ethiopia goes 1-2 with Gebre Gebremariam winning in 29:02.71.
19:15 W SHOT PUT FINAL - Valerie Adams NZL won gold with her first throw of 17.73 58-2. Laura Gerraughty USA got the bronze medal with a throw of 16.62 54-6.5. Photo
19:50 W 100 METRES HURDLES HEATS - Ashlee Williams USA advanced to the finals by winning heat 2 in a season best 13.44 +0.3, but she was only the sixth fastest finalist as Ana Tejada CUB 13.07 +0.1 and Agnieszka Frankowska POL 13.24 +0.4 won much faster heats. Tiffany Ross USA 13.78 missed advancing by 0.06 second.
20:15 M 110 METRES HURDLES SEMI-FINAL - Team USA swept the semifinal heats behind Antwon Hicks 13.59 +0.5 and Kenneth Ferguson 14.01 +0.2, with Hicks the fastest finalist. But two more runners behind Hicks were faster than Ferguson -- Shamar Sands BAH 13.67 and Dongpeng Shi CHN 13.81. Photos
20:30 W 800 METRES HEPTATHLON - Carolina Kluft SWE finishes a tour de force by winning the closing event in 2:13.55, a personal best and just enough to break the world junior record by 4 points with an overall total of 6,470 points. She won five of the seven events and had five personal best marks in the competition.
20:50 W 4 X 400 METRES HEATS - Another country heard from. Russia 3:31.64 (Mygunova Yelena, Dryakhlova Mariya, Gushchina Yuliya, Popova Tatyana) edges Jamaica 3:32.20 (Prendergast Davita, Robinson Carlene, Stewart Kerron, Morgan Sheryl), with USA (Hardeman Christina, Henderson Monique, Richards Sanya, Demus Lashinda) winning other heat in 3:35.84.
21:10 M 4 X 400 METRES HEATS - USA (Ferguson Kenneth, Williamson Darold, Jackson Bershawn, Fortenberry Jonathan) romps to 3:03.56 win over Jamaica 3:05.82 (Myers Jermaine, Clarke S�kou, Plummer Yhann, Gonzales Jermaine).

Links to the Jamaica Observor's stories on
"the biggest sporting event ever in Jamaica"

• 7/21 Jamaica gets record haul of medals
• 7/20 Usain gets gold on ecstatic Day 4
• 7/19 Bronze for Mason, Gonzales, Morgan
• 7/18 Facey takes silver for Jamaica - (photos)
• 7/17 Darrel Brown could break world junior record in 100 today
• 7/17 Championships are off and running - IAAF president praises Jamaica.
• 7/16 The 9th World Juniors get cracking - with Team Jamaica roster (Boys & Girls NY high school star Stacey Ann Livingston is running the 800 for Jamaica)
• 7/13 The World's top junior sprinters, including many Americans.

Local coverage is also available on the Jamaica Gleaner web site.

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