Day 2 Evening Review: 2016 IAAF U20 World Champs
2016 IAAF U20 Championships – Day 2 evening session summary
MEN’S HAMMER THROW Qualifying
Both Americans, Robert Colantonio (Barrington, RI – 232-11) and Adam Kelly (Princeton, and Barrington HS 2015 -232-10) qualified. Seven of the twelve met the automatic standard (236-03) with the leader Bence Halasz (Hungary) at 255-05.
MEN’S 110m HURDLES Semi Final
Marcus Krah (Hillside, Durham, NC) won semi in 13.36, his third fastest race of the year (and third fastest high school time of the year in the U.S.) and advanced. Amere Lattin (Houston) was second (13.39) in his semi to De’Jour Russell (Jamaica) who ran the fastest U20 in the world this year – 13.20, beating Krah’s previous leader by .05.
WOMEN’S 800m Semi Final
Aaliyah Miller (Boyd, McKinney, TX) was the fastest overall, winning her semi in 2:04.36. Samantha Watson (Rush-Henrietta, Henrietta, NY) won her semi in 2:04.50, the second fastest time.
WOMEN’S SHOT PUT FINAL
World leader Alina Kenzel (Germany) improved her seasonal best with a toss of 57-08.25 on her third attempt. Alyssa Wilson (Monsignor Donovan, Toms River, NJ) moved into second on her second attempt, throwing 53-07, only to be eclipsed by Jiayuan Song (China) on her third attempt (53-08.25). Wilson got the bronze. Elena Bruckner (Valley Christian, San Jose, CA) who automatically qualified this morning, had only one legal throw (51-07.25) and finished 7th.
MEN’S 100m Semi Final
Noah Lyles (TC Williams, Alexandria, VA) showed he is the one to beat, winning his heat in 10.22. Hakim Montgomery (Troy U) could manage only 6th in his heat (10.53) and did not advance. Italian Filippo Tortu (10.26) looked very strong in winning his semi, as did Tlotliso Leotlela (South Africa) in 10.20.
MEN’S 100m FINAL
It was ever-so-close, but Noah Lyles eked out the win, running 10.17. Only .06 separated 2nd from 6th, with Filippo Turtu getting second in 10.24 and Mario Burke (Barbados – U. of Houston) third in 10.26.
WOMEN’S 400m Semi Final
What a great late-season performer is Lynn Irby (Pike, Indianapolis, IN). She won her semi in 51.90, second only to Sydney Mc Laughlin (51.87) in this year’s high school ranks. It was just off last year’s best of 51.79 from the World Youth final, which is #12 all-time. Karrington Winters (Ohio State) did not advance, running 53.04, albeit a personal best. Tiffany James (Jamaica) was the leading qualifier at 51.77.
MEN’S LONG JUMP FINAL
Jamari Ward (Cahokia, IL) did not match his leading qualifier mark from yesterday, managing only 25-02.5 and finishing 6th. The winner was the 2015 IAAF World Youth Champ Maykel Masso’ (Cuba - who only recently turned 17) with an exact 8-meter (26-03) jump.
WOMEN’S 3000m FINAL
No surprises here with another East African win. This time it was Beyanu Defefa of Ethiopia and it was a stunning meet record – 8:41.76 – an over 5-second improvement over the prior record set 24 years ago. For the Americans it was a fine achievement, especially with Katie Rainsberger’s (Air Academy, Colorado Springs, CO) high school record. She finished 7th in 9:00.62 breaking the 41 year old record of Lynn Bjorklund (Los Alamos, NM – 9:08.6). It was also the third fastest U.S. Junior time ever. Only Ceci Hopp (Stanford, 8:57.27) and Mary Cain (Nike, 8:58.48) have run faster. Kate Murphy finished 12th in 9:17.01.
WOMEN’S JAVELIN FINAL
No Americans made the final and Klaudia Maruszewska had never thrown better than 55 meters (180-05) before. But she did so on her first attempt, throwing 57.59 (188-11) to win. It was a total surprise with last year’s IAAF World Youth Champion Hiruka Kitaguchi (Japan) finishing a disappointing 8th.
MEN”S DECATHLON – DAY 2 – final
Cale Wagner (Nebraska):
USATF Junior IAAF U20
100 10.67 935 10.94 824
LJ 7.43 918 7.29 883
SP 13.56 701 13.20 679
HJ 2.00 803 1.95 758
400 50.67 784 49.52 837
Day 1 4141 points 4031 points
110h 14.75 880 5021 14.93 858 4889
DT 37.29 610 5631 37.27 609 5498
PV 4.20 673 6304 4.20 673 6171
JT 52.02 619 6923 52.84 631 6802
1500 4:51.54 609 7532 4:35.67 708 7510
Wagner finished a respectable 8th, just 22 points off his best. Niklas Kaul (Germany) set the world record with his 8162 point win (he also set a decathlon javelin world record, throwing 234-10).
