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March 9-11, 2001 at the New York Armory Picture Stories
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Perkins claps hands winning 400 - interview - and a
bouquet of roses |
In the 200, Brendan Christian TX 21.02 and Glenn McFadden CT 21.05 in a mighty battle that ended with the runners falling into each other's arms, knowing that they just experienced something special. Both runners smashed the existing national record (21.29 Tony Wheeler, 1993). Christian won the 60 over Morgan City LA freshman Gerald Watson, whose 6.78 in the prelims set a new US record for a 9th grader.
Christian (left) and McFadden hit the tape.
McFadden points interviewer to
Christian.
TX junior Brendan Christian, latest great
sprinter from Texas
There were actually three vaults better than the previous record. First, Samantha Shepard MA and Stacie Manuel MN both cleared 13-1.75 (4.01) to break the national indoor record (13-1.5 by Shepard earlier this year). Then a jumpoff started to settle first place. Both missed fourth attempts at 4.10, and the bar was lowered to 4.05. Manuel missed on a good attempt, leaving it open to Shepard to win. Now looking dead tired, Shepard twice aborted her approach short of the box. Then, with the judge warning her time was about up, Shepard took off and sailed over the bar to cheers from a loyal throng of pole vault fans who watched every jump from the backstretch balcony at the Armory. Manuel, who was diagnosed with pneumonia 5 days earlier, went home to Minnesota while Shepard and Air Time teammate Molly Lederman (third today at 12-8) went to Maryland to compete in the Nike Indoor Classic on Sunday.
Air Time coach Jeff Robbins (Samantha Shepard and
Molly Lederman) gives instructions, with Stacie Manuel's coach
watching. |
Stacie Manuel's record vault at 13-1.75 |
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Stacie clears & |
cheers |
US indoor 400 meter record holder Lashinda Demus put Wilson into the lead with a 53.3 400-meter third leg, and then sophomore Ashley Freeman hammered the field with a 2:09.5 anchor 800 meter leg. Wilson's winning time was 3.5 seconds better than the previous record of William Penn PA in 1997. Wilson pulled A.P. Randolph NY into the 4th fastest SMR in US history, 3:59.42, which was also a New York State record. Even 3rd place Haddonfield NJ 4:03.93, powered by Erin Donohue's 2:09.6 anchor leg coming from 5th place, was 16th all time.
(L to R): Lashinda Demus 53.3, Deanna Gooden 25.0, Ashley
Freeman 2:09.5, Angel Tate 25.1
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