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Day Three Recap - 2014 IAAF World Juniors

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DyeStat.com   Jul 26th 2014, 9:34pm
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Belocian breaks world junior mark in hurdles

 

By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor

 
Mary Cain became the first American to win a medal at a distance longer than 1,500 meters at World Juniors and gave a shot of energy to the U.S. team with her victory. 


Another boost came from high school pole vault record holder Desiree Freier, who took silver and upped her best to 14-7.25. Russian Alena Lutkoskaya won gold with 14-9.


Elsewhere on Thursday night it was other counties collecting key victories. 


Wilhelm Belocian of France (but actually from Guadeloupe) ran 12.99 seconds to win the 110 meter hurdles to set a world juniors record. (It should be noted that this was a 39-inch hurdles race and not 42 inches like it used to be). 


Wellington Zaza, a class of 2013 hurdler from Pennsylvania, placed fourth running for Liberia (13.38) and U.S. team member Nick Anderson was eighth.


Konrad Bukowiecki of Poland threw 72-4.50 to win the shot put on his second throw. He didn't bother to take his final three throws. Braheme Days, former prep standout from New Jersey and a UCLA freshman, got a hard-earned bronze. Amir Ali Patterson, a UCLA recuit, wsa seventh.


Jianan Wang from China won the long jump with the only mark over 26 feet (26-0.75). It went China-China-Japan for the medals, with U.S. jumper Travonn White fourth.


Ekaterina Starygina of Russia won the women's javelin with a throw of 186-6, pulling off a mild upset over Sweden's Sofi Flink.


Machel Cedenio of Trinidad & Tobago was the class of the field in the 400 meters and sped to gold with 45.13. He won by more than a second. U.S. athletes Lamar Bruton-Grunnage and Tyler Brown both showed some fatigue and finished sixth and eighth.


Kenya's Margaret Nyairera Wambui beat Cuba's Sahily Diago 2:00.49 to 2:02.11 in the women's 800. One of the pre-meet favorites, Iceland's Anita Hinriksdottir, did not finish.


Kenya scored gold and bronze in the men's 1,500, led by Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe, who won it in 3:40.02.



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