2015 WY Champs 7/18 Evening Report: Team USA 400H sweep in 4-medal night!

by Jim Spier

World Youth Champs – Day 4 evening

Discus Final – Men

Gabriel Oladipo (Fort Bend Hightower, Missouri City, TX) threw 183-8 on his first throw, then fouled twice.  He finished 9th.  The prelims were marred by fouls, with only 15 of 32 throws being legal.  In the finals, only 6 of 24 were legal (though many were intentional).  Adrian Piperi’s (The Woodlands, TX) only legal throw of 192-11 got him to 6th place.  That equaled his World Youth Trials performance and was several inches better than his qualifying performance the other day here.

Triple Jump Final – Women

Tara Davis (Agoura, CA) jumped 41-6 in the first round and did not improve, finishing 9th and missing the top 8 and another 3 jumps.

Pole Vault Final – Women

Not such a great day for the Americans, with Rachel Baxter (Canyon, Anaheim, CA) and Carson Dingler (First Presbyterian Day, Macon, GA) managing to clear only 12-7.5 each.  They finished 9th and 10th respectively.

      

200m Semi Finals – Women

Candace Hill (Rockdale County, Conyers, GA) and Lauren Rain Williams (Oaks Christian, Westlake Village, CA) appear to be the medal favorites.  Williams had the fastest time overall:  23.03, a personal best and #1 or #2 among preps this year (depending if you include professional Kaylin Whitney), and Hill’s 23.21 was second best.

200m Semi Finals – Men

Josephus Lyles (TC Williams, Alexandria, VA) cruised to a lifetime best of 20.93 in winning his heat.  Maxwell Willis (Bowie, MD) was never in his race and finished next to last in 21.89.  Willis was ultimately disqualified for running inside his lane.

High Jump Final – Men

Darius Carbin (Mt. Pleasant, San Jose, CA) got a lifetime best of 7-01, making on his 3rd attempt to finish third .  Jaron Brooks (Henry Clay, Lexington, KY) made 7-00.25 on his second attempt and missed 3 times at 7-1 to finish 5th.

   

400m Hurdles Final – Women

There was a lot of talk of sub 55 here, but I think the long season has worn a bit on Sydney McLaughlin (Union Catholic, Scotch Plains, NJ).  She ran 55.93, a meet record and certainly an outstanding performance.  She had trouble with hurdle 7, but all others were clean.  Brandee' Johnson (Nansemond River, Suffolk, VA) had a lifetime best of 57.47 in finishing third.  Johnson also won bronze in the 200m at last summer's Youth Olympics in China.  Xahria Santiago of Canada, the silver medalist, was fourth this year in the New Balance Nationals indoor 60 meters.

  

400m Hurdles Final – Men

Norman Grimes (Canyon, TX) was perfect over every hurdle, running the 2nd fastest ever for World Youth, running an incredible 49.11.  It was more than a second faster than his prior best and #2 in World Youth history.  Only William Wynne, the 2007 World Youth Champ from Team USA, has ever run faster.  That 2007 WY meet also marked the other occasion when Team USA captured gold in both the boys’ and girls’ 400H finals (Dalilah Muhammad won for the girls).

  

1500m Final – Women

Julia Heymach (Kinkaid, Houston, TX) ran a courageous race, trying to cover all moves.  But with a lap to go she could not keep up with the East African surges.  She finished in 8th (just barely; got jostled at the finish and could have finished 6th). She did get a personal best of 4:21.78.

Heptathlon – Day 2

Jordan Fields had a PB in the 800, running 2:21.59.  Her overall point total was 4982, over 100 points below her World Youth trials performance.  Coincidentally, Canadian Dalyssa Huggins won her 800m heat, and Huggins was the New Balance Nationals Outdoor heptathlon champion, beating Fields, the top American at that meet.  Caice Lanovaz had yet another personal best, running 2:24.27.  She finished with a personal best score of 5181 points.

The top 3 in the 800m

2:15.27 Niamh Emerson Great Britain
2:15.38 Sarah Lagger  Austria
2:17.01 Dalyssa Huggins Canada

The top finishers

1. Geraldine Ruckstuhl Switzerland 6037
2. Sarah Lagger  Austria  5992
3. Alina Shukh  Ukraine 5896
4. Lisa Maihofer  Germany 5804

22. Caice Lanovaz  USA  5181
27. Jordan Fields  USA  4982

Day 2 comparisons between the World Youth Qualifying and World Youth Championships:

Caice Lanovaz (Foothill, Pleasanton, CA)

                    LJ             JT             800m 

WY             18-01       115-10    2:24.27

WY Trials  18-00.25 111-01    2:25.16

Jordan Fields (Creekside, St. Johns, FL)

                     LJ           JT        800m 

WY              18-4.5    82-11  2:21.59

WY Trials  18-02.5   91-03  2:22.08


Other winners from events in which no Americans competed:

  • Boys 800m, Willy Tarbei, Kenya, 1:45.58
  • Girls Hammer Throw, Sofiya Palkina, Russia, 222-06

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