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This section has on-site stories and photos by the NSSF team: Jim
Spier, Mike Byrnes and Joy Kamani.
USA 38.92
the record that almost wasn't
On July 21, 2002, at the IAAF World Junior Championships
in Kingston, Jamaica, the US team of Ashton Collins, Wes Felix,
Ivory Williams and Willie Hordge, ran 38.92 for the World Junior
Record in the 4x100 meter relay. Collins, Williams and Hordge had
not planned on running at the USATF Junior Championships (the qualifying
event for the World Junior team) until five days before the meet.
And, even if they had planned to, it is unlikely that they would
have had the means to be able to travel from Texas (Williams, Hordge)
or Louisiana (Collins) to Stanford, especially with such short notice.
How
NSSF got 3 of 4 relay runners to Stanford
Lashinda Demus -- In the awards ceremony Thursday,
they played video of her world junior record 400H and superimposed
Lashinda watching the video.
Best Marks - performances qualifying
for DyeStat Elite 2002 outdoor national
ranking
This only includes high school athletes and events that are ranked
in DyeStat Elite.
Event |
Pos |
Mark |
Notes |
Name |
B-100 |
6 |
10.23 |
+1.6 p |
Christian, Brendan, 2002, Aus Reagan TX |
B-100 |
3 |
10.25 |
+3.9 p |
Hordge, Willie, 2003, Forest Brook Hou TX |
B-200 |
2 |
20.74 |
+0.9 |
Christian, Brendan, 2002, Aus Reagan TX |
B-800 |
|
1:50.17 |
p |
Smith, Richard, 2002, South Lakes VA |
B-1500 |
11 |
3:46.01 |
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Lukezic, Chris, 2002, Auburn WA |
B-110H |
5 |
13.91 |
+2.6 |
Ferguson, Kenneth, 2002, Mumford Det MI |
B-400H |
2 |
49.38 |
USR |
Ferguson, Kenneth, 2002, Mumford Det MI |
B-400H |
3 |
50.00 |
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Jackson, Bershawn, 2002, Central Mia FL |
B-HJ |
1 |
7' 7 |
|
Manson, Andra, 2002, Brenham TX |
B-HJ |
2 |
7' 3 |
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Williams, Jesse, 2002, Broughton NC |
G-100 |
3 |
11.48 |
-0.2 |
Hooker, Marshevet, 2003, Southwest S Ant TX |
G-200 |
3 |
23.09 |
-0.2 |
Richards, Sanya, 2002, St. T Aquinas FL |
G-200 |
5 |
23.48 |
-0.2 |
Felix, Allyson, 2003, LA Baptist CA |
G-400 |
2 |
51.49 |
|
Richards, Sanya, 2002, St. T Aquinas FL |
G-100H |
4 |
13.36 |
+3.4 |
Williams, Ashlee, 2002, Bishop Dunne TX |
G-HJ |
|
5' 10.75 |
p |
Wagner, Kaylene, 2002, Dos Pueblos CA |
G-HJ |
|
5' 8.75 |
p |
Robbins, Ashley, , McMullen Co TX |
G-LJ |
12 |
20' 3.75 |
p |
McLain, Erica, 2004, Clarke Plano TX |
G-TJ |
|
42' 0.5 |
+0.4 p |
Gordon, Sheena, 2002, McDowell PA |
G-PV |
|
12' 0.5 |
p |
Bailey, Julene, 2003, Skyview Nampa ID |
National Stadium, Kingston Jamaica,
was rebuilt this year and has a new Mondo track.
News Reports
Links to the Jamaica Observor's
stories on
"the biggest sporting event ever in Jamaica"
NSSF support bolsters US World Junior team
The National Scholastic Sports Foundation funded
the travel of 26 athletes to the recently concluded USA Junior Nationals.
Seventeen of these athletes, including Sanya Richards, made Team
USA for the World Junior Championships in Jamaica next month. More
IAAF: World Youth champs move on to World
Juniors
11 July 2002 - Monte Carlo - When the 2002 IAAF/Coca
Cola World Junior Championships get started next week in Kingston,
Jamaica, some of the youngsters who will compete on the brand new
Mondo track will already have an IAAF World Championships title
in their resume.
Indeed, most of the athletes who were crowned World
Youth Champions last year in Debrecen, Hungary will start as favourites
for their respective World Junior titles next week in Kingston.
The 2001 World Youth Championships of Debrecen were only the second
edition of this championships but crowned athletes from a total
of 16 different countries.
So how many of these youths will manage to follow
their World Youth Championships gold with a World Junior title?
In Santiago 2000, the previous edition of the World Junior Championships,
no fewer than seven World Youth Champions managed to win gold in
their respective disciplines.
Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva was the first to
achieve this double when she cleared a new Championships record
of 4.20 in the pole vault. She was subsequently joined by Great
Britain’s Mark Lewis-Francis (100m), Jamaica’s Veronica
Campbell (100m), Kenya’s Nicolas Wachira (800m) and Cornelius
Chrichir (1500m) South Africa’s Jacques Freitag (high jump)
and Australia’s Jana Pittman (400m hurdles).
The 100m reigning Youth champion, Trinidad and Tobago’s
Darrel Brown lowered his personal best to 10.18 last weekend and
seems set to outclass the rest of the field in Kingston. Brown,
who finished an excellent fourth in Santiago two years ago aged
just 16 was also a member of the bronze medal winning 4x100m relay
squad last year in Edmonton.
Another athlete who first experienced glory in Debrecen
last year and is in good shape to battle for gold in Kingston is
Brazil’s Thiago Jacinto Carahyba Dias. In 2001, Jacinto –
as he prefers to be called – found the strength and concentration
to leap 7.72m with his very last attempt to win the long jump competition
in style. The following day he returned to the track but could only
manage a disappointing – by his standards – 4th place
in the 110m hurdles. Jacinto will double up again in Kingston and
leads a Brazilian squad which includes 28 athletes.
IAAF: this is first ever World Athletic
Series event in Jamaica
10 July 2002 - Monte Carlo - The 2002 IAAF/Coca
Cola World Junior Championships which will take place in Kingston
from 16 to 21 July will be the first ever World Athletic Series
event to be held in Jamaica.
160 countries have already confirmed their participation
in the Championships, with a total of 680 men and 460 women athletes
scheduled to compete on the brand new Mondo track of Kingston's
National Stadium.
The organising country has a great tradition and
can claim the only junior athlete to win four gold medals in two
consecutive junior championships with Gillian Russell who won the
100m hurdles in 1990 and 1992. Russell was also part of the 4x100m
squad that snatched gold at those same editions. More recently Jamaica's
Veronica Campbell highlighted the 2000 edition of the world junior
championships with victories at both 100m and 200m.
This year, the US women sprinters have already set
high standards for the competition. South Carolina's Lashinda Demus
ran a new World Junior record time of 54.85 on 31 May in Louisiana
and is a clear favourite for the title. With the right competition,
she may well become the first athlete to break a world junior record
at a World Junior Championship since Tereza Marinova in Sydney 1996
(14.62 in the triple jump).
The last World Junior record for men was set by
Great Britain's Steve Smith in Seoul 1992 when he jumped 2.37m (equalling
Dragutin Topic's mark set two years before).
The US team also includes the three fastest 400m
runners of the year with Sanya Richards (50.69 - a new American
record), Demus (51.24) and Monique Henderson (51.33). With Tiffany
Ross - a 55.22 400m hurdles runner - the USA 4x400m team could well
challenge the long-standing world record set by Germany's Grit Breuer
and company back in 1988.
The IAAF/Coca Cola World Junior Championships are
the launch pad for future champions to make their debut on the international
scene. Athletes of the calibre of Colin Jackson, Derartu Tulu, Haile
Gebrselassie or Gabriela Szabo all started their careers with a
world junior gold medal.
More recently, the last two winners of the World
junior 100m championships title, Mark Lewis Francis (winner in 2000)
and Christian Malcolm (winner in 1998) - who jointly hold the championships
record with 10.12 - or Cuba's Osleidys Menedez (who won the Junior
javelin title in 1998 and 2000) have quickly progressed on the senior
circuit and proven how motivating a World Juniors gold medal can
be.
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