IAAF World Junior Championships
Aug 15-20, 2006 at Beijing, China
DyeStat on-site coverage with Doug Speck, Jim Spier and Mike Kennedy

Prior Years

.2004 - Grossetto Italy - coverage on DyeStat - on IAAF -
Team USA ends with brilliant flourish

Closing Day - High school athletes are prominent as Team USA ends with a flourish, sweeping all four relays with three world records. Two Merritts (unrelated) star -- Lashawn Merritt is on both men's relay winners, and Aries Merritt wins the 110m hurdles. Galen Rupp and Josh McDougal hit US all time top 10. Sharon Day wins bronze.

World Records
M-4x400 3:01.09
W-4x400 3:27.60
M-4x100 38.66
More US gold
W-4x100 43.49
110H Aries Merritt 13.56
Also great
M-5000 Galen Rupp 13:52.85 9th US#4 all time, plus Josh McDougal 14:07.55 US#10 all time.
W-HJ Sharon Day 6-3.25 PR for bronze.
Seeing double: Two gold-medal winning USA preps are caught with Old Glory at Grossetto:
At left, shot putter Michelle Carter (photo by Victah Sailer, photorun.net);
at right, 400 runner LaShawn Merritt (photo Joy Kimani).


Other Highlights:

  • Michelle Carter wins shot put on last throw with a 2-foot PR of 57-7!
  • Gayle Hunter's 5411 hep is #2 all time in US.
  • Shalonda Solomon wins 200m gold in 22.82 US#4 HS all time.
  • USA 1-2 sweep in 400H by Kerron Clement 48.51 and Brandon Johnson 48.62.
  • Ronetta Alexander wins 100H.
  • USA sweeps 400m finals with Lashawn Merritt 45.25 and Natasha Hastings 52.04.
  • Katya Kostetskaya 55.55 400H with Nicole Leach 57.56 PR fourth.
  • US is 1-2 in both 100m finals with Ashley Owens 11.13, Jasmine Baldwin 11.34, Ivory Williams 10.29 and Demi Omole 10.31. Owens ties for US#2 all time high school mark.
  • Caitlin Chock 15:52.88 USR in 5k

 

2002 Kingston Jamaica - coverage on DyeStat - on IAAF -

World junior records set by Lashinda Demus, USA (54.70 400H), Men's 4x100, USA (38.92 Ashton Collins, Wes Felix, Ivory Williams and Willie Hordge), Carolina Kluft, Sweden (heptathlon 6470), Louis Van Zyl, South Africa (48.89 400H)

In 2002 meet at Kingston Jamaica, Lashinda Demus, a US Olympian this year, added the world junior record of 54.70 in the 400m hurdles to her US national high school record of 39.98 300H. Lashinda watched on the giant stadium screen as they replayed the race in the awards ceremony.

photo by Joy Kamani

 

2000 Santiago de Chile - on IAAF

1998 Annecy France - on IAAF

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