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World Youth Championship - Day Two Report - 7/10/03 - Report Mike Kennedy
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HEAT ONE—Nagmeldin Abubkr of Suden, with a best of 46.32, is just about as smooth a long sprinter as you are going to find and he looked very easy in winning in 47.50. A sub 46-second effort would seem to be well within his capabilities. Rafal Blocian of Poland was second in 48.68 and Aitor Jmartin of Spain third in 49.39 but should run faster in the next round. HEAT TWO—Usian Bolt of Jamaica, the World Junior champion at 200 meters, and world youth leader here at 45.35, ran with the minimum of effort, qua1ifying in second with a time of 48.36. Antonio Side of Dominica was the winner in 47.84 and Musa Jatta of Gamboa was the final automatic qualifier in 48.48. HEAT THREE—Cedric Goodman of Newnan (Ga.) ran a hard first turn, floated the second 100, built the third 100 and came home under control winning in 48.91. Nick Leavey of Britain was second in 49.10 and Nicolas Lopez of Paraguay third in 49.28. HEAT FOUR—Jerrith Jones of St. Augustine (New Orleans, La.) was out quickly and leading at 150 meter before Aleksander Sigalovskiy of Russian, running in lane eight, was able to take the lead entering the final straight and come home with a winning time of 48.49. Jones, with a best of 48.21, was just able to hold on for second in 49.28 followed by Zelijko Vincek of Croatia at 49.29 and Josue Ramos of Brazil at 49.48. HEAT FIVE—Francisco Aguirre of Ecuador finished first but was disqualified for running out of his lane. Frank Puriza of Namibia, who had a best of 48.74, was declared the winner in 47.57. Joel Milburn of Australia, who led the race early on, was second at 48.15 and Samuel Wilson was third in 48.93. HEAT SIX—Jose Acevedo of Venezuela was the early leader before Jamil James of Trinidad and Tobago took charge and came home an easy winner in 48.24. Acevedo, who appeared to finish second, was later disqualified for running outside his lane. Mohammed Raziq of Morocco was moved to second in 49.32 and Keenan Geer of Canada was third at 50.17. 800 METERS (first two in each heat plus next 10 fastest qualify for semifinals) HEAT ONE—Michael Rimmer of Britain, exerting a minimum of energy, passed 400 in 56.34 and proceeded to open a large lead clocking 1:25.55 at 600. He then allowed the field to close down on him, winning in 1:54.77 in front of Cesar Barquero of Peru (1:55.04) and Davian Parker of Jamaica (l:55.91). HEAT TWO—Abraham Ngeno of Kenya opened with fractions of 26.51 and 53.95 with Kohta Itokawa of Japan and Steven Fennell of Britain in close attendance. Ngeno finished well, winning in 1:50.70 while Fennell passed Itokawa on the final turn to take second, 1:51.86 to 1:52.52. Rachid Omar Alaya of Tunisia closed well to gain fourth in 1:52.82. HEAT THREE—Michael Haddad of Woodbridge (Irvine, Ca.) ran a strong turn and looked to take the early lead but Geoffrey Martinson of Canada got there first passing 200 meters in 26.05. The two remained that way through 400 in 54.56. After passing 600 at 1:23.79, Haddad took the lead entering the final straightaway only to be caught by the late charge of Vitalij Kozlov of Lithuania, who won in a personal best of 1:53.02. Haddad was timed in 1:53.39 and Federico Padilla of Colombia was third at 1:53.80. HEAT FOUR—Miraslav Kaplan of Czech Republic was the leader at 200 in 27.31 and remained there at the half way point in 56.43 with Mouhcine Ouahmane of Morocco in second and Abdalla Abdelgadir of Sudan in third. Jozef Repcik of Slovakia moved from fourth to first over the next 200 meters to clocking 1:24.66 at 600 meters. It was at that point Abdelgadir hit the excellerator and blasted away from the field to win in 1:51.72. Repcik held on for second in 1:53.41 and Kaplin was third in 1:54.72. HEAT FIVE—The first bit of bad luck struck the U.S. after a day of mostly very good performances. Chrisopher Woods of Newnan (Ga.) took the early lead at 200 meters in 26.70 where he was joined by Florin Gania of Romania. Around the turn Woods got tangled up with another runner and fell to the ground. He was able to regain his running form but found himself in last place. Meanwhile Gania just continued to build his lead to a peak of 30 meters before winning in 1:52.88. Volker Peter of Germany was second in 1:54.35 and Zhenyong was third at 1:54.38. Wood finished in seventh with a 2:12.39. HEAT SIX—Takeshi Kuchino of Japan was the early leader as a pack of four passed 400 meters in 58.40. Over the next 200 meters Ryan Finn of Canada moved from third to first, passing 600 meters in 1:26.72, only to be passed by first, Mohammed Al-Salhi of Saudi Arabia, the world youth leader at 1:47.74, then Kuchino and finally by Lukas Rifesser of Italy just before the finish. Al-Salhi’s winning time was 12:54.89. Kuchino was clocked in 1:55.19 for second Rifessor has a 1:55.74 in third and Finn was given 1:56.22 in fourth. HEAT SEVEN—Bernard Kiptum of Kenya and Mohamed El Hazzab of Morocco looked to be hooked up in a great dual with Kiptum holding a slight lead through fractions of 27.85 and 55.98 but Kiptum applied the pressure over the next 200 and El Hazzab faded out of the picture to finish fifth. Meanwhile David Takacs of Hungary and Andreas Rapatz of Austria moved in to second and third at 1:52.37 and 1:53.92, respectively, but neither was a match for Kiptum’s 1:51.50.
HEAT TWO— A first lap in 70.47 saw a return to sanity. Satoru Kitamura of Japan took the early lead as large pack of eight went through 4:18 for 1,600 meters with Galen Rupp of Central Catholic (Portland, Ore.) well placed the entire way. Tariku Bekele of Ethiopia broke the race open just after 2,000 meters (passed in 5:43.16) with a final 800 of 1:58.0 and a final 400 in 59.08. Rupp was able to remain in the top five over the final two laps, finishing fourth in 8:22.92. Bekele winning time was 8:11.85. He was followed by William Tarus of Kenya in 8:15.87 and Satoru Kitamura of Japan in 8:18.45. Mike Woods of Canada was the final automatic qualifier in 8:23.99. Bekele had the personal best among the top five finishers. 110-METER HIGH HURDLES (first two in each heat plus next four fastest qualify for finao) HEAT ONE (wind –1.5 mps)—John Alexander of Germany, with
a best of 13.73 had little trouble winning in 13.73. Kevin Craddock,
a sophomore from James Logan (Union City, Ca.), was second in 13.90b
over World Youth division height hurdles of 36 inches, which is two one-hundredths
faster then he has run over the 39-inch high school height hurdles. Also
qualifying for the final were Carlos Jorge of Dominica in 13.93 and Konstadinos
of Greece in 13.96. HEAT ONE—Go Tanabe of Japan did just that as he led from wire to wire with an easy 52.06. Mohammed Daak of Saudi Arabia was second in 52.93, dropping his personal best from 55.08. Seleke Samake of Senegal was the third automatic qualifier. HEAT TWO—South African Wouter Le Roux, running from lane eight was an easy winner in 51.64. Torben Bieler of Germany at 53.73 and Martin Flandenhofer of Austria at 54.64 were the other two auto qualifiers but would appear to be in trouble for reaching the final. HEAT THREE—Jason Richardson of Cedar Hill (Tx.) competes over the 300 hurdles for most of the year but he certainly did not appear to affect his performance over the longer distance as he smoothly traversed all 10 hurdles in 50.95 looked like he could go under 50.0 if he needed to. Yuki Iwataki of Japan set a person best of 52.61in second and Konstandinos Anastasiou of Greece was third in 53.60. HEAT FOUR— Jamaal Charles another Texan, this one from Memorial in Port Arthur, looked more like a 300 hurdlers stretching out to 400 meters, as he was a little tight leading over the first three hurdles before having step problems that dropped him to third by the seventh hurdle. He recovered nicely and retook the lead winning to win in a person best of 52.53. Johann Hanekom was second in 52.82 but with very smooth form that gave the impression that he was capable of running faster. Milton Dias of Portugal was third at 53.36. POLE VAULT (13 to final) GROUP A—Scott Duckworth of Klein Oak (Houston, Tx.) opened at 14-7 1/4 with a second try clearance, made 15-1 on his first attempt, 15-5 on his second try and equaled his personal best of 15-9 on his first attempt to qualify for the final. Mikhail Golovtsov of Russia, who has a best of 16-8 3/4, was the only vaulter with no misses. GROUP B—Mitch Greeley of Northwestern (Rock Hill, S.C.), a 15-8
performer, failed at the opening height of 14-1 3/4. A jump of 15-5 was
necessary to advance to the final. Konstandinos Filippidis of Greece,
the world leader at 17-1 1/2, Dmitry Starodubtsev, also of Russia (best
of 16-4 3/4), Steven Lewis of Britain (16-3) and Akira Wakuda of Japan
(15-9), all had no misses. GROUP A—The top five youth division jumpers in the world (all over 24 feet) were entered but you would not know it by their efforts, which might say something about the runways. Naohiro Shinda of Japan, the world leader at 25-10 was the leading qualifier in this group and overall with a best of 24-0 1/2. Yves Renaux of France, a 24-8 1/2 jumper was the second qualifier at 23-4 3/4. No other jumper bettered 23-6. GROUP B—Regan Julius of South Africa had the only person best
of the day at a windy 23-8 3/4 to lead the group. Nicolas Gomont of France,
a 25-0 jumper, was second at 23-5 1/4 and Nils Hermann of Germany with
a best of 24-9 1/4 was the third best jumper at 23-1 1/4. There were
no U.S. entrants. GROUP B—Luke Panezich of Springfield (New Middleton, Ohio), who had not bettered 57-0 this year with the high school shot, qualified for the final with a put of 60-5 1/4. The only automatic qualifier from this group was Kyle Heff of Canada at 62-10 1/2. It took 59-7 1/2 to make the final. FINAL Liu opened with a 67-8 effort and improved in the third round with a world youth record put of 70-06 1/2 to easily win the gold medal. Helf and Gearing, with second-round puts of 66-5 1/4 and 64-7 1/4, finished second and third. Panezich, who had a great put of 59-10 to reach the final, could only manage 59-0 3/4 to finish twelfth. HAMMER THROW (12 qualify for final) GROUP A—Zack Midles of Capital (Olympia, Wa.), opened with a 201-3 effort and improved to 203-7 on his third and final attempt to place him fifth in the group but than had to wait until the completion of Group B to see if he qualified for the final. Throwing a hammer that was about 3/4 of a pound lighter that the High School 12-pounder, Midles was shy of his best of 204-8. Kristof Nemeth of Hungary, who has a best of 257-11 to rank second in the world, was one of just two automatic qualifiers, with a 235-1 throw. He was followed by Yevgenity Aydamirov of Russia at 228-6. GROUP B—Jimmy Tarro of Coventry (R.I.), had throw 192-3 with the high school hammer but produce only three fouls and did not advance. Mikhail Levin of Russsia, the world leader at 261-0, needed just one throw at 249-9 to advance. The only other thrower to better the automatic qualifying mark of 226-4 was Sandor Palhegyi of Hungary at 240-0. It took 197-5 to make the final so after waiting two hours, Midles gets to throw another day. JAVELIN (12 qualify for final) GROUP A—In one of the most stunning performance of the day Chad Brown of Barbe (Lake Charles, La.), the only U.S. entrant, uncorked a throw of 241-51 for a new championship meet record. Even allowing for the fact that Brown throws the High School weight javelin of 800 grams and the World Youth age group throws a 700-gram javelin, his improvement from 207-0 is just remarkable. The effort came on his second attempt after first –round throw of 215-1. Also reaching the automatic qualifying distance of 229-8 were Raldu Potgieter of South Africa (240-7), Julio Cesar of Brazil (236-6), Ari Inkero of Finland at 233-6 and Sebastian Jachimowicz of Poland (233-0). . GROUP B—Robert Oosthuizen of South Africa, the world leader at 260-0, was the top finisher with an automatic qualifier of 235-5, followed by Sang-woo Lee of South Korea at 232-6 and Teor Ojala of Finland at 230-4. It took 215-3 to make the final. OCTATHON (first day) After the first four events Adam Fretwell of Cypress Creek (Houston, Tx.) finds himself in seventh place with 3,061 points and just 79 points out of fourth. He ran11.19 for 100 meters (819 points), long jumped 23-1 3/4 (825), shot put 44-4 1/4 (699) and ran the 400 in 52.15 (718). Andres Silva of Uruguay, the second ranking 400 runner in the world at 46.23, chose to put his efforts here and finds himself in a very tight battle with Lukas Patera of the Czech Republic, a nation known for producing great multieventers. After four events, Silva has a total of 3,382 and Patera is just 33 points behind at 3349. Benjamin Chevrol of France is third with 3,245 more than 100 points ahead of fourth place. Dan Kinsey of Wellsville (Ohio), who was not on the team roster as of June 25, is in 22nd place with 2801 points.
100 METERS (first two in each heat plus next 10 fastest qualify for semifinals) HEAT ONE (wind +0.6 msp)—Fast times were almost a given with gentle favoring winds and just two automatic qualifiers from each heat. Most runners saw the need to not just cruse through their heats. This was very evident here as Samantha Henry of Jamaica took an early lead but was pressed hard by Yomara Hinestroza of Colombia before winning, 11.79 to 11.83. Monique Cabral of Trinidad and Tobaco was third at 11.95. HEAT TWO (+1.1)—Sherline Duncan of Jamaica held the early lead but then found herself being pressed by Kadi-Ann Thomas of Britain, who pulled even at 70 meters before being edged, 11.77 to 11.81. Darlenis Obregon of Colombia closed well for third in 11.88. HEAT THREE (+1.8)—Jessica Onyepunuka of Peoria (Az.), who is tall but would never be considered slender, got a great start and ran strongly throughout to win as she pleased in a championship meet record and personal best of 11.44. Sinead Johnson of Britain was second in 11.98. HEAT FOUR (+0.4) —Damola Osayomi of Nigeria led all the way but was closely pressed by Lina Grincikate of Lithuania, 11.69 to 11.76. Tamara Rigby of Bahamas was third at 11.96. HEAT FIVE (+0.3)—Kelly-Ann Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago overcame a sluggish start that left her in third but picked up the early leaders at 70 meters and pulled away in 11.85. Ann-Kathrin of Fischer of Germany passed early leader Liann Kellman of Barbados to gain second, 12.01 to 12.04. HEAT SIX (+1.8)—After one false start, Krystin Lacy of Skyline (Dallas, Tx.) was in charge from the start and ran strongly through the finish to break Onyepunuka’s twenty minute old championship record and set a personal best of 11.43. Iwona Brzezinska of Poland was second in 11.90. HEAT SEVEN (+1.7)—Local favorite Jenni Hucul of Canada, who is just 15 years old, led from start to finish, winning in a personal best of 11.69. Francis Das Gracas of Brazil was second at 11.80 and Maria Salvagno of Italy was third at 11.98. 400 METERS (first three in each heat plus next four fastest qualify for semifinals) HEAT ONE—Jaimee-Lee Hoebergen of Australia, running three lanes inside of Anastasiya Shuvalova of Russia, was evenly paced the entire way in running 54.38 for the win. Shuvalova remained second at 54.60 and Karolin Tsarski of Estonia was third in a personal best of 56.11. HEAT TWO—Queen Ogbemudia of Nigeria, running from lane eight and have a personal best of 55.59, was off like a shot and built a sizable lead over the first 300 meters and Muna Adma of Sudan was a well placed second before the world youth leader Natasha Hastings of A.P. Randolph (New York City) moved easily through the home stretch to win in 54.20. Adam was second in a personal best 54.51 and Ogbemudia third in 54.99. HEAT THREE—Gemma Nicol of Germany, utilizing a strong smooth-striding style that holds promise of better things ahead, had little trouble winning 54.84. Sonita Sutherland of Jamaica at 55.30 and Kineke Alexander of Virgin Islands at 56.39 were the other automatic qualifiers. HEAT FOUR—Brandi Cross of Marshall (Missouri City, Tx.) running from lane eight, moved out to a sizeable lead only to be passed entering the home straightaway by Abigall David of Triniday and Antonina Krivoshapka of Russia. Cross, though visibly tired, came back to get second in 54.86. Krivoshapka won the race in 54.73 and David was third in 54.99 to complete the automatic qualifiers. 1.500 METERS (first four in each heat plus next four fastest qualify for final) HEAT ONE—Naomi Kipkemb of Kenya went through the 400 at 68.0 and never trailed in running 4:21.88, was a personal best by three seconds. Stephanie Thieke of Germany was always near the front and finished second at 4:23.08. Hayley Tomlinsoin of Australia and Christine Kalmer of South Africa moved up over the last 400 to finish in 4:25.28 and 4:26.13, respectively. HEAT TWO—Sophomore Chantelle Dron, who is home schooled in Manchester (N.H). was the only U.S. entrant but she proved to gem, producing a personal best of nearly four second in finishing sixth in 4:22.08, the second fastest high school time in the nation, to qualify for the final. Emily Johnson of Australia led a large pack through splits of 67.68 and 2:19.00, that saw Dron always among the leaders and never worse than fifth. Alem Techale of Ethiopia took over in the third 400 passing 1,200 meters at 3:29.45 breaking up the pack and the having to hold off the late charge of Joyce Musungu of Kenya, 4:19.00 to 4:19.09. Lemlem Bereket of Eritrea and Alyson Kohlmeier of Canada held on well for fourth and fifth in 4:19.47 and 4:20.64. All of the time qualifiers came from this heat, the slowest being Charlotte Browning of Britain at 4:25.23. HIGH JUMP (13 qualify for final) GROUP A—Toni Aluko of Burtonsville (Md.), who has a best of 5-9
3/4, cleared 5-8 1/2 but it took the automatic qualifying height of 5-10
1/2 to make the final. The only jumper with no misses were Annett Engel
of Germany, Oldriska Maresova of the Czech Republic and Svetlana Shkolina
of Russia, the leading youth in the world at 6-2. TRIPLE JUMP (12 qualify for final) GROUP A—Brittany Daniels of Merrill West (Tracy, Ca.) fouled on her first two attempts and then had to settle for a safe jump of 40-4 that placed her fourth in the group and eighth overall. Christine Spataru of Romania at 42-3 1/2 and Vanessa Alesiani of Italy at 42-2 were automatic qualifiers with Elina Sorsa of Finland in third at 40-11 3/4. GROUP B—Erica McLain of East (Plano, Tx.), who complete two years ago in Debrechen in the long jump opened with a 40-8 3/4 effort followed by a foul and a leap of 40-7 3/4 to finish third in the group and sixth overall. Aleksandra Zelanina of Masedonia at 41-3 1/4 and Veronia Davis of Venezue1a at 40-11 qualified first and second, respectively. Noticeably absent was Indira Valladares of Cuba, the world youth leader at 44-3 1/2. Of the finalist Spatahnu has the best jump of 43-7 /14 and Zelenina has done 43-1 1/2 but McLain at 43-1 and Daniels at 42-7w and 42-4 3/4 are not far behind. Both groups jumped into a slight wind. DISCUS (12 qualify for final) GROUP A—Qualifying hit an all-time low as it took only 131-2 to make the final. After a first-round foul D’Andra Carter of Red Oak (Tx.), who has a best of 154-0, threw 136-10 to finish fifth in the group and ninth overall. Kristina Gehrig of German, the No. 2 ranked youth in the world with a mark of 168-10, was the top qualifier at 155-7, Michaela Margociova of Slovakia was second at 144-3 and Julie Bennell of Australia was third at 143-0. GROUP B—Misti Barber of Northwestern (Miami, Fla.), who has a best of 151-9, needed a third-round throw of 136-9 to place fifth in the group and ninth overall. Calista Lyon of Australia at 151-2, Lisandra Rodriguez of Cuba at 149-4 and Josipa Jelicic of Croatia at 146-7 were the top three qualifiers. In all just seven throwers managed to better 140-0. 5,000 RACEWALK FINAL Vera Sokolova of Russia took over the lead by 2,000 meters and was never
challenged in winning in 22:50.23. Ann Loughname of Ireland was second
at 23:37.00 and Noriko of Japan was third at 23:50.69. Maria Michta of
Nosconset (N.Y.), the only U.S. entrant, was tenth at 24:52.06.
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