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Day 5 World Youth meet DAY FIVE WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS - MIKE KENNEDY REPORT All Finals BOYS 200 METERS Harry Aikines-Aryeetey of Great Britain, who has the same physical build as two-time California state champion Kenny O’Neal (Skyline, Oakland), effectively ended this race in the first 80 meters as he blasted the turn and entered the straighaway with a five-meter. Meanwhile, Jorge Valcarcel of Cuba, seemed to treat the turn as place to take a stroll. As a result, despite running a great final 100 he could not catch Aikins-Aryeetey, 20.91 to 21.08, with an aiding +0.7 wind. Matteo Galvan of Italy closed quickly to grab third from Dax Danns (Helix, La Mesa, Ca./Guyana) and Cawayne Jervis of Jamaica. Galvin was timed in 21.14 while Danns and Jarvis both were timed in 21.21 with Danns finishing fourth. 1,500 METERS Belal Ali of Barundi, had run 1:44.4 and 3:33.86, so the race was really for second. For the record here are Ali’s splits, 41.0, 56.78, 1:40.0, 1:55.80, 1:41.23, 2:55.56 and 3:37.00. Bader Bader, also from Barundi, ran in second for the entire race, as set a personal best of 3:43.70. Abubaker Kaki of Sudan was third in 3:45.06, Leonard Kiplagate of Kenya was fourth in 3:47.21, Dumisane Hlaselo of South Africa was fifth in 3:48.23; and Jordan Chipangama of Zambiia was sixth in 3:48.91, all personal best. The first nonafrican was Lawrence Cox of Great Britain in ninth at 3:54.55. 400-METER LOW HURDLES David Klech (California, Danville, Ca.), got out well and was leading at 200 meters before being caught around the turn. He then regained a very slight lead at the head of the final straight but was passed by Abdulagadir Indriss of Sudan between the eighth and ninth hurdle. Klech then almost lost his balance and did lose momentum. Meanwhile, up front, Indress was having his own troubles. After clearing the final barrier he also stumbled forward and just managed to cross the finish line in 50.90 before falling to the track. Mohammed Daak of Saudia Arabia, taking advantage of Klech’s problems, caught the Californian at the tape for second as both were timed in 50.90. Adel Jaber Asseri of Saudia Arabia after a terrible first 200 got up for fourth in 52.68. Timothy Greir (Hiram, Ga.), running in lane one ran very event race and finished sixth in 53.30. MEDLEY (100-200-300-400) RELAY The United States, running an all-Califorina team of Isaiah Green (Poly, Long Beach, Ca.), Devon Mays (Lincoln, Stockton), Zach Chandy (Sage Hill, Newport Harbor) and Bryshon Nellum (Poly, Long Beach) came from behind to win in a world-leading 1:51.19. The American found them selves in second place when Nellum got the baton but the Poly sophomore moved into first down the back stretch only to be passed by A.J. Asseri of Saudia Arabia around the final turn. Nellmu, showing great patience, waited until the final straightt before easily pulling away for the win with a 46.1 anchor. Trinidad and Tobago was second at 1:52.51 and Saudia Arabia was third at 1:53.89. POLE VAULT Scott Roth (Granite Bay, Ca.) and Yansheng Yang of China each cleared 17-2 ¾ with Yang winning the gold medal with a first try clearance while Roth took the silver on his second attempt clearance before each missed three times at 17-4¾. Albert Velez of Spain garnered the bronze at 17-0¾. Roth had no misses until 16-10¾, where he took two attempts before setting a personal best at 17-2 ¾. 200 METERS Bianca Knight (Ridgeland, Tx.), and Khrystal Carter (Valley Christian, San Jose, Ca.), running into a 0.7 wind, both got out well with Knight having a very slight lead into the straight. Aymee Martinez of Cuba, who was third in the 400, showed great relaxation over the final 80 meeters to take the lead and win in 22.99. Knight, with a seasonal personal best, was second in 23.33 and LaToya King of Jamaica passed Carter in the finals strides to grab third, 23.57 to 23.61. For Carter it was a legal personal best. Flavious Kwamboka of Kenya went wire to wire, with splits of 30.20, 1:04.39 and 1:38.34 to win in 2:07.42. Teammate Winny Chebet was always near the front and moved very well over the final 100 meters to grab second in 2:08.15. Katherine Katsanevakis of Australia, who sometimes shared the lead with Kwamboka was third just holding of Halima Hachlaf of Morocco, 2:08.35 to 2:08.61. 100-METER LOW HURDLES April Williams (Skyline, Dallas, Tx.) got an incredible start (reaction time was .109) and was never challenged, winning in 13.23 for the leading world youth (30 inch) hurdles mark this year. The only high school athlete ever to run faster was Yolanda Johnson (Washington, Denver, Co.) in 1986 when she was the Track and Field News Athlete of the year. Natasha Ruddock of Jamacia had start as bad as Williams’s was good. However she was able to recover and just edge Theresa Lewis (Western, Baltimore, Md.) at the tape, 13.38 to 13.39. Emilia Rundqvist of Sweden was fourth at 13.51. MEDLEY (100-200-300-400) RELAY The United States with a team of Khrystal Carter, Ebony Collins, Bianca Knight and Brandi Cross won wire-to-wire in 2:03.93 to for the fastest time of the year. Australia, with J. Hoebergen run a 53.1 anchor, ran down Brazil to finish second, 2:06.58 to 2:06.60. Poland was fourth in 2:09.05 and Russia was fifth in 2:09.42. LONG JUMP Buried in seventh place after two rounds, Arantxa King of Bermuda, who is also a sophomore at Medford High in Massachussets, won with a third round jump of 20-11¾ that took advantage of the maximum allowable wind of 2.0 meters per second. Eloyse Corneila Deiac of Romania had moved into first place with a second round jump of 20-6¼ only to be displaced by Eloyse Lesueur on the very next jump when the French lady stretched out to 20-7¼. None of the three improved in the last three round and the medals were settled. JAVELIN Yi-Ju Zhang of Taiwan opened up with 179-10 to take the first round lead and then won the gold with a second round toss of 185-11. Vira Rebryk of Ukraine moved into second with a third-round toss of 178-8 and threw a scare into Zhang with a sixth round effort of 184-3. Yanet Cruz of Cuba moved form fourth to third with a fifth round throw of 169-6, displacing Ynithi Coetzee of South Africa who had thrown 167-8 in the previous round. IAAF REPORT Historic Double for Harry Aikines Aryeetey highlight of last day of the IAAF/Maroc Telecom World Youth Championships The 16-year-old Carshalton starlet having won the shorter race title on Thursday, powered to another magnificent victory over 200 metres in his final on Sunday night. On the occasion it mattered most, the Surrey sprinter showed without any doubt who was the better man, controlling the race from start-to-finish and winning in a world leading time for the year of 20.91seconds. His constant lethal pace, saw him easily overthrow the challenge of Valcarcel and Matteo Galvan of Italy, although both rivals ran personal best times of 21.08sec and 21.14sec. "I just can't believe," said Aikines-Aryeetey who after raising his hand with a Number One finger salute, spent a couple of minutes flat-out on his back after his outstanding performance. "I just can't believe it, I was lying on my back on the floor before it really dawned I was world champion yet again," said the elated teenager. "I've no idea," said Aikines-Aryeetey of where he found the energy to run the fastest half lap of his life after six demanding races in five days. He added: "Yesterday I was a bit tired but felt a lot better today. I ran a quick bend and I didn't really see anyone. "It's just amazing. I had so much lactic, I knew I was going to do something special and I just can't believe it that I ran 20.91sec," the first time he had dipped under the 21-seconds barrier. Aikines-Ayreetey has been so focused on his preparations he was unaware that no-one had ever before achieved the demanding sprint double. "I suppose I've made history," said last year's Commonwealth Youth Games runner-up. "But yes, I've got to be happy with two medals - who'd of thought it." Abdulagadir Idriss proved the theory that breaking world leading marks in preliminary roundsa doesn't guarantee gold medals with a thrilling 400 metres hurdles victory. Idriss might have won his heat and semi final with personal best times, but the Sudanese one-lapper did so without breaking the world leading time for the year with those victories. Two of his opponents in their progress to the final had done so. David Klech of the United States achieved the feat twice while Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Dak did it in his heat. But when it mattered most it was Idriss who went to the top of the table with a time of 50.78seconds - and to boot captured the gold medal with a nailbiting win. Idriss most probably upset his rivals nerves when false starting in the opening track event of the final session of the highly successsful fourth World Junior Champions. Then making them even more edgy after roaring from his blocks before the recall gun sounded, he slowly walked back to his lane five starting position. Away at the second attempt Idriss led for the first hurdle before Klech came storming past and at one stage opened a lead of two metres ahead of the chasing pack. But in the home straight he died and at the final barrier Idriss went ahead although in his determination to reach the line he nearly fell over. Klech who had run himself to a standstill tried desperately to hang on for the silver medal, but a late dip for the line saw Dak given the verdict although both boys clocked the same time and pbs of 50.90sec. Aymee Martinez was another to prove the theory that winning qualifiers means nothing, when beating 100 metres champion Bianca Knight with a relatively easy win over 200 metres. The American was aiming to become the first woman ever to win both sprint gold medals at the same Championships - but her ambitions were aborted 50 metres from the finish. At that point Martinez, Knight and Jamaica's LaToya King were evenly matched, until the Cuban winner went into a huge overdrive movement. Martinez totally focused on winning the gold medal crossed the line in a Championship record and world leading time for the year of 22.99sec with Knight the fastest performer in both the heats and semi-finals recording 23.33sec. King who had been consistent throughout the preliminary rounds finished strongly to post a personal best mark of 23.57sec. The 100 metres hurdles produced a world leading time for the year from April Williams of 13.23 seconds as she bettered the previous fastest set by Natasha Ruddock and Manulea Galtier of France set the previous day, by one-hundredth-of-a-second. Ruddock from Jamaica however had some compensation when clinching the silver medal in 13.38sec, splitting the winner and preventing a US one-two, ahead of Theresa Lewis who clocked 13.39sec. A tactical 800m final saw Flavious Teresa Kwamboka after a slowish first lap of 64.39 seconds, use her sprinting speed to lead Winny Chebet to a Kenyan double. Kwamboka's tremendous acceleration on the crown of the final bend saw her and her partner enter the final straight with only Katherine Katsanevakis trying to stay in contention. The Aussie and Chebet with 50 metres remaining were fighting their own private battle - won by the African by 0.20sec in 2min 08.15sec - Kwamboka out in front of her own finishing in 2min 07.42sec. There was a runaway win for Belal Mansoor Ali in the 1500 metres, the Bahrain middle-distance runner who has clocked a world youth's best-ever mark of 3min 33.86sec this summer, slaughtering his rivals. Leading from start to finish, such was his superioity, the already beaten opposition settled for a private battle for the silver medal, won by Ali's teammate Bader Khalil Bader ahead of Sudan's Abubaker Kai. Ali winner in 3min 36.98sec would almost certainly have blitzed the championship record of 3min 36.78 set set six-years ago by Isaac Kiprono Songok if the there had been someone to push him. But so far ahead of Bader and Kaki who clocked personal best's of 3min 43.70sec and 3min 45.06sec, he missed the mark by just 0.20sec. Yangsheng Yang won a first-ever pole vault title for China in a thriller ahead of the USA's Scott Roth both men breaking the 5.20m championship record set six years ago in Bydgoszcz by Sebastien Homo of France. Yang who kept a clean sheet until the winning height of 5.25m won on countback, Roth having brought the bar down on two occasions. Albert Velez also matched the previous record to win the bronze medal for Spain. Earlier Li Zhang kept the javelin title in Chinese hands clinching her victory with a second round effort of 56.66m ahead of Ukrainian Vira Rebryk and Yanet Cruz from Cuba. Li Zhang was never under any pressure until Rebryk unleashed her best throw in the final round which fell just 40 centimetres short of the winner's mark while Cruz had a best of 51.66m. Arantxa King improving her personal best by 25 centimetres was a shock winner of the long jump with the world's fifth best leap this year of 6.39m. The Bermudan after lowly jumps of 6.07m and 6.06m, hit the board perfectly with her next attempt and with the wind exactly on the permissible two-metres-per-second limit, achieved an unexpected victory. Eloyse Lesueur from France who has a best of 6.40m this summer, took the silver medal with a clearance of 6.28m while Romania's Cornelia Deiac improved her best-ever performance by just a centimetre, to claim the bronze with 6.25m. The 100-200-300-400 split distances in the one kilometre race, saw them finish clear of Trinidad and Tobago and Saudia Arabia, the Caribbean and Gulf nations setting personal bests of 1min 52.51sec and 1min 52.89sec. Just prior to their victory, the American girls quartet also set a world leader when taking the title with an easy victory in a time of 2min 03.93sec. Australia in a thrilling finish, took the silver medals and Brazil claimed the bronze, both nations running their fastest times of the year of 2min 06.58sec and 2min 06.60sec. USATF REPORT Williams and relays put Team USA atop medal table 07-17-2005 Williams of Dallas, Texas had a slow start, but kept her composure to win the gold medal in the girls 100m hurdles in 13.23 seconds. "I had a bad start so I had to work hard to get back in the race," said Williams. "My goal was to be in the top three because this was more competitive than I thought which made me run better." Natasha Ruddock (13.38) of Jamaica barely beat Team USA member Theresa Lewis by a nose to win the silver medal. Lewis of Baltimore, Md., finished in 13.39 seconds grabbing the bronze medal. Gold medal number six came in the boys' medley relay (Isaiah Green, Devin Mays, Zach Chandy and Bryshon Nellum), with 400m bronze medalist Nellum anchoring an amazing 400m leg to stop the clock at 1:51.19. Nellum of Los Angeles, Calif., exploded to take the lead with about 40 meters to the finish line. "I stayed relax until it was time to make my move the last 50 meters," said Nellum. Team USA's performance was the fastest youth time in the world this year in the boys' medley relay competition. In the girls' medley relay final, Team USA cruised to another gold medal. The medley relay team of Khrystal Carter, Ebony Collins, Bianca Knight and Brandi Cross finished in 2:03.93 clocking the fastest youth time in the world this year. Scott Roth of Granite Bay, Calif., went head to head in the boys' pole vault final against Yansheng Yang of China who won the gold medal. Both Roth and Yang cleared 5.25m/17-2.75 to set a World Youth championship record in the boys' pole vault with Scott grabbing the silver medal because he had more misses than Yang. Jordan Scott of Watkinsville, Ga., finished in fifth-place with a clearance of 5.05m/ 16-6.75 in the boys' pole vault final. The 2005 World Youth 100m champion, Bianca Knight won the silver medal in the girls' 200m finals. A Mississippi native, Knight ran 23.33 missing a golden opportunity by a nose. Khrystal Carter of San Jose, Calif., finished in fourth-place in 23.61 seconds. "I just did not get out good," said Knight. Dan Klech of San Ramon, Calif., ran a personal best time of 50.90 seconds in the boys' 400m hurdles to grab the bronze medal. "It has been an awesome experience and happy that I was able to PR in three straight days," said Klech. "I just gave everything I had and wanted to go out there and just do it." Timothy Grier of Powder Springs, Ga., ran 53.30 to finish sixth in 400m hurdles final. TEAM USA MEDALISTS GOLD: Bianca Knight (100m); Cordera Jenkins (110m hurdles); Ebony Collins (400m hurdles); April Williams (100m hurdles), Girls medley relay; Boys medley relay. SILVER: Ebony Collins (100m); Bianca Knight (200m), Scott Roth (pole vault). BRONZE: Kamorean Hayes (discus throw); Bryshon Nellum (400m); David Klech (400m hurdles); Theresa Lewis (100m hurdles). MEDAL COUNT (Top 3 nations): #1, USA 13; #2 PR of China 8; #3, Kenya 10. 4th IAAF World Youth Championships Marrakech 13/17-Jul-2005
17 07 2005 Results BOYS
Official Results - 200 Metres - Boys - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 18:00 Wind: 0.7 m/s
Official Results - 1500 Metres - Boys - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 18:45 Intermediate Pos Bib Athlete Nat Mark
Official Results - 400m hurdles (84.0cm) - Boys - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 17:30
Official Results - Pole Vault - Boys - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 17:00 Athlete 4.50 4.65 4.75 4.85 4.90 4.95 5.00 5.05 5.10 5.15 5.20 5.25 5.30 Yansheng Yang - - - O - - O - - O - O XXX
Official Results - Medley Relay - Boys - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 19:20 Team Nat Reaction Time South Africa RSA 0.135 Russia RUS 0.146 Saudi Arabia KSA 0.146 United States USA 0.148 Trinidad and Tobago TRI 0.166 Sudan SUD 0.167 Chinese Taipei TPE 0.172 Puerto Rico PUR 0.187
17 07 2005 Results GIRLS
Official Results - 200 Metres - Girls - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 17:45 Wind: 0.7 m/s
Official Results - 800 Metres - Girls - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 18:30 Intermediate Pos Bib Athlete Nat Mark
Official Results - 100m Hurdles (76.2cm) - Girls - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 18:15 Wind: 1.1 m/s
Official Results - Long Jump - Girls - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 17:40 Athlete 1st w 2nd w 3rd w 4th w 5th w 6th w Arantxa King 6.07 (0.8) 6.06 (-0.2) 6.39 (2.0) 6.25 (1.2) 6.05 (0.6) 5.97 (-0.3)
Official Results - Javelin Throw - Girls - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 17:35 Athlete 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Li Zhang 54.82 56.66 - 55.26 54.95 56.60
Official Results - Medley Relay - Girls - Final Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 19:00 |
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