2006 World Junior Championships
Day 6 - 8/20 - SUNDAY
MEN'S HIGH HURDLES
FINALS

Sunday, August 20th, 2006
At Beijing, China

 

2006 World Junior Championships
Day 6 - 8/20 - SUNDAY
MEN'S HIGH HURDLES
FINALS

Sunday August 20th, 2006
At Beijing, China
Summary Mike Kennedy
Photos Doug Speck


First flight - very even race

Flight four - Noga narrow lead to left

Noga on the run-in to super 13.23 with Coco-Violoin of France to right second 13.35

Polish champ beams

Race Summary:  Samuel Coco-Viloin of France got out best followed by Konstadinos Douvalidis of Greece and Darius Reed of the U.S. and Washington High in Denver, Colorado. Although Artur Noga of Poland, who had the events fastest time in the field at 13.43, he quickly began to move up and by the ninth hurdle he had caught Coco-Viloin and pulled away for a convincing win in a world-leading 13.23 with an aiding wind of 1.5 meters per second. Coco-Viloin was just able to hold off Douvalidis, 13.35 to 13.39 and Vladimir Zhukov of Russia was fourth at 13.53. Reed was in the middle mix at the start but slowly drifted back to finish seventh in 13.64. It is the fastest time ever run over 39 inch hurdles but since it is a new event for juniors on the international level (39 inch hurdles rather than 42 inches) there will be waiting period for an official world junior record. It is interesting to note that Noga was born in 1988, which would make him comparable to a U.S. high school senior. The U.S. high school record is 13.26 by Arthur Blake of Haines City, Florida in 1984.

Official Results - 110m Hurdles (99.0cm) - Men - Final
Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 18:10 Wind: 1.5 m/s

Pos Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark React
1 6 569 Noga Artur POL 13.23 (CR) 0.153
2 4 260 Coco-Viloin Samuel FRA 13.35 (NJ) 0.155
3 3 343 Douvalídis Konstadínos GRE 13.39 (NJ) 0.209
4 5 645 Zhukov Vladimir RUS 13.53 (NJ) 0.170
5 1 565 Jurkowski Wojciech POL 13.58 0.162
6 2 787 Reed Darius USA 13.64 0.198
7 8 290 Frankis Gianni GBR 13.71 0.199
8 7 124 Hong Xiaofeng CHN 13.75 0.206