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DAY SIX RESULTS! DyeStatCal's full recap (summaries, photos, results) from Day 6 of 6 USATF - Relay
medals great close for US - 3 teams win - M4x1 silver!! FULL DAY SIX RESULTS 11th IAAF World Junior
Championships Beijing 15/20-Aug-2006 Official Results - 5000 Metres - Men - Final Official Results - 110m Hurdles (99.0cm) - Men
- Final Official Results - 4x100 Metres Relay - Men -
Final Official Results - 4x400 Metres Relay - Men -
Final Official Results - Triple Jump - Men - Final Official Results - 1500 Metres - Women - Final Official Results - 4x100 Metres Relay - Women
- Final Official Results - 4x400 Metres Relay - Women
- Final Official Results - High Jump - Women - Final Official Results - Discus Throw - Women - Final The women's 4x100-meter relay team of Jeneba Tarmoh (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandria Anderson (Chicago, Ill.), Elizabeth Olear (Woodland Hills, Calif.), and Gabby Mayo (Raleigh, N.C.) got the night started off right, bringing home the gold in their world junior leading time of 43.49 seconds. "It was great," said Anderson after the team's victory. "I'm proud that we won. We all knew what our part was and we did an excellent job." After a hard fought race, the men's 4x100-meter relay team of Evander Wells (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Gordon McKenzie (Queens, N.Y.), Willie Perry (Lenior, N.C.), and Brandon Myers (Houston, Texas) claimed the silver medal with their runner-up time of 39.21 seconds. "It felt good," said Perry. "We all got out and did our best. The only thing was Brandon isn't comfortable with the baton in his left, but we did our best with what we had." The U.S. contingent of Jessica Beard (Euclid, Ohio), Brandi Cross (Missouri City, Texas), Sa'de Williams (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Nicole Leach (Philadelphia, Pa.) took the lead on the second leg of the women's 4x400-meter relay and never looked back, crossing the line in a world junior leading 3 minutes 29.01 seconds. After their victory lap, Leach said, "I'm so excited. This was my third gold medal on a world junior team. We're proud, we had confidence in ourselves and did what we set out to do. We want to thank out teammates, the coaches and USATF for sending us on this trip." In winning the men's 4x400-meter world relay title, Quentin Inglehart-Summers (San Antonio, Texas), Justin Oliver (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Bryshon Nellum (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Chris Carter (Ogden, Utah) easily beat out runner-up Russia, sprinting to the finish in 3 minutes 3.76 seconds to Russia's 3:05.13. "It felt great," said anchor leg and 400mH champion Carter. "I was honored to be a part of the relay." Summers said, "I'm happy we ran as good as we did. We got gold and we're all happy about that." Also on the track, Darius Reed (Denver, Colo.) took sixth place in the men's 110-meter hurdle final, clocking in at 13.64 seconds. Erin Bedell (Plano, Texas), a freshman at Baylor, was 10th in the women's 1,500m final, crossing the line in a personal best 4:20.01. "I tried my best to give myself a shot. I took a chance and don't regret anything I did on the track," said Bedell. "I'm taking a short break now right before cross country starts." Team USA medal tally as of August 20 - Gold (4) Jeneba Tarmoh (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandria Anderson (Chicago, Ill.), Elizabeth Olear (Woodland Hills, Calif.), and Gabby Mayo (Raleigh, N.C.), W4x100m relay: 43.49; Jessica Beard (Euclid, Ohio), Brandi Cross (Missouri City, Texas), Sa'de Williams (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Nicole Leach (Philadelphia, Pa.), W4x400m relay: 3:29.01; Quentin Inglehart-Summers (San Antonio, Texas), Justin Oliver (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Bryshon Nellum (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Chris Carter (Ogden, Utah), M4x400m relay: 3:03.76; Chris Carter (Ogden, Utah), M400H: 50.08 Silver (5) Evander Wells (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Gordon McKenzie (Queens, N.Y.), Willie Perry (Lenior, N.C.), and Brandon Myers (Houston, Texas), M4x100m relay: 39.21; Justin Oliver (Stone Mountain, Ga.), M400: 45.78; Nicole Leach (Philadelphia, Pa.), W400H: 55.55; Gabby Mayo (Raleigh, N.C.), W100: 11.42; Antone Belt (Berkeley Springs, W.V.), MLJ: 7.95m/26-1 Bronze (2) Rebekah Noble (Spokane, Wash.), W800: 2:04.90; Tiffany Ofili (Ypsilanti, Mich.), W100H: 13.37 World Junior Champs, Day 6 – PM session summary Tariku can now claim a unique family accolade Tariku, 19, was the bronze medallist two years ago, and is an experienced senior circuit traveller, and this competitive background obviously gave him the confidence to control the race even when 10,000m silver medallist Joseph Ebuya of Kenya tried to mix it with him and his Ethiopian team mate Abreham Cherkos Feleke with five laps to go. But Bekele who led through 3000m (8:27.30) was having none of it, and taking back the initiative after one lap of following the Kenyan’s heels, he dashed away to gold in 13:31.34. Feleke finished in 13:35.95, while Ebuya took his second medal in
Beijing with 13:42.93 for bronze. Jelagat from ‘gun to tape’ It is rare that any middle distance race at a major championship falls
to a ‘gun to tape’ winner. As had already occurred with
a number of finals this week, we watched a masterclass by the winner
of the women’s 1500m, Irene Jelagat, this evening. Back in sixth there was a national junior record for Serbia (4:16.20) via the feet of Azra Eminovic. Noga takes centre stage Noga, is a fan of Brad Pitt and if he wasn’t an athlete he would be an actor. What a performance he gave tonight! Samuels adds Junior to Youth honours The women’s Discus Throw provided yet another solo demonstration of the prodigious talent of a winner in Beijing. This time it was the turn of Australia’s Dani Samuels to turn on the style in the Chaoyang Sport Centre. While her nearest opponent was 2.60m away from the 60m sector line, Australia’s World Youth champion sent the Discus clear over that white taped boundary on three occasions, her best being a third round 60.63m, a world season junior lead. This was a personal best, and so was her winning distance in Marrakesh at last summer’s World Youths. This is a major star in the making. Saili Pan (57.40m) and Jian Tan (56.09m) brought home a minor medal double for the hosts, and there was a Belgian junior record in fourth from Annekies Peetroons (54.42). A straight forward win for Radzivil Uzbekistan’s Svetlana Radzivil’s 1.91m was also a national record for her age group, easily enough to take the women’s High Jump gold. A straight forward competition of little drama saw Radzivil take gold on her second time approach to the bar at that height. She had had first time clearances at her previous four heights. China took silver via Xingjuan Zheng (1.88), and was the only other athlete to challenge at 1.91m. In bronze was Germany's Engel Annett tied with Kazakhstan’s Yevseyeva Yekaterina (1.84m). Compaoré continues dramatic season’s improvement France finally got its first gold medal in Beijing in the final field event to finish at these championships. The men’s Triple Jump was taken by the Alsace based Benjamin Compaoré, whose father came from Burkino Faso. The 19-year-old began 2006 with an outdoor personal best of 16.00m, and after two revisions of this mark during the summer, and equalling his then best of 16.34m in the qualifying round here, he walked away from the final tonight with 16.61m as his new career height, set into a head wind (-0.5m/s). Ecuador’s Hugo Chila took silver (16.49m), and China’s Minwei Zhong with a last round rally took bronze (16.29m) RELAYS - Slick changes and dramatic falls Viewing from a distance, the change over between America's second to third leg runners didn’t look that fluid but the final hand over of the baton between Elizabeth Olear and Gabby Mayo, was slick and with it USA’s women’s 4x100m squad powered to a 43.49 second win. France took silver (44.20), and Jamaica the bronze (44.22). In the men’s sprint relay Germany’s luck ran out in the second and third exchanges, with both incoming runners tripping over in dramatic style after the baton reached the next runner. The final handover, or the attemopt at it was so desperate that the end result was a DNF next to GER on the result sheet. But the Germans were not in contention for a medal at that point, as the campaign for honours was being fought out by Jamaica, USA and Britain, and that’s how they finished. Yohan Blake beat off the opposition in a world junior season’s lead of 39.05. USA followed with 39.21, and GBR was next, 39.24. USA were emphatic winners of the women’s 4x400m, never looking back after Brandi Cross on the second leg passed Nigeria for the lead. The USA closed out in 3:29.01, a world season’s junior lead, Nigeria took silver (3:30.84), while Jamaica finished in bronze after the attack from Kelise Spencer, the 400m Hurdles gold medallist this week, dried up in the last 100 metres. The last event of these championships also went to USA, with Chris Carter, the men’s one-lap hurdles winner bringing home a world junior season’s leading win in 3:03.76. Russia followed in 3:05.13 for silver, a national junior record, as was the time of Kenya (3:05.54) in fourth. Making up about 20 metres in the last lap (44.27 split) was Martyn Rooney who narrowly clinched bronze for Britain ahead of the east Africans (3:05.49). Finally, did you know that Carter who anchored home the USA gold was the son of…?! No, don’t worry, I’m not going down that particular track again... http://www.iaaf.org/WJC06/news/Kind=2/newsId=35825.html But signing off from this particular track in the Chaoyang Sport Centre, Beijing, after an entertaining six days of competition is… Chris Turner for the IAAF Go Back To World Juniors Coverage Index
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