It's time for Jamaica's Javere Bell to prove his talent
Published on July 9, 2009 |
Javere Bell of Jamaica couldn’t be happier after winning his 400m semi-final heat to advance to Friday’s final at the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships. Well, yes he could he said, he was not happy with how he ran the backstretch plus he felt some pain from his hamstring which is healing after an injury…
Brown aiming at putting Canada back on sprint map!
Published on July 9, 2009 |
Bressanone/Brixen, Italy – New Canadian 100m youth record holder Aaron Brown says he is very determine to put his country’s sprint back on the map. Since Donovan Bailey, the 1996 Olympics 100m champion, at 9.84, and Bruny Surin, who also has a personal best of 9.84, in the 90s, Canada has not produced any world…
World Youth Octathlon – Day Two – IAAF Morning Report
Published on July 9, 2009 |
Bressanone/Brixen – With two events to go in the boys’ Octathlon, Russia’s World Youth leader Maksim Fayzulin reclaimed the lead he had handed to Germany’s Steffen Klink overnight with a superb display in the 110m Hurdles worth 968 points (field’s fastest time of 14.05) and a decent 1.98 clearance in the High Jump. Fayzulin now…
IAAF World Youth Evening report
Published on July 8, 2009 |
Bressanone/Brixen – Purity Rionoripo with a brilliant turn of pace over the final circuit became the third successive Kenyan winner of the World Youth Championships 3000 metres title in Bressanone on Wednesday night. Rionoripo fully deserved the victory after leading the four main contenders teammate Jackline Chepngeno and the Ethiopians duo of Genet Yalew plus…
Jamaica’s Waquar DaCosta collapses after 800m at World Youth
Published on July 8, 2009 |
Bressanone/Brixen, Italy – Jamaica’s Waquar DaCosta collapsed after completed the men’s 800m heat (6) event during the opening session at the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships. He was later taken to the hospital for treatment. DaCosta, who was given Oxygen mask on the track before taken away on stretcher, had finished at the back of…
Traves Smikle takes Jamaica to new grounds – World Youth
Published on July 8, 2009 |
Bressanone/Brixen – On Tuesday evening, a day before the start of the competition in the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships, Traves Smikle of Jamaica admitted to being “a bit concerned” with the distances his opponents had thrown in the discus. However the 17-year-old Jamaican went out and threw his personal best of 57.28m on his…
Redemption time for Ashton Purvis in Bressanone – World Youth
Published on July 8, 2009 |
Bressanone/Brixen, Italy – American sprinter Ashton Purvis is out to redeem herself after a disappointing 2007 World Youth Championships in Ostrava. In Ostrava, Purvis ran 12.04 for seventh in the 100m final. She had times on 11.74 in the heats, 12.09 in the quarterfinals and 11.81 in the semi-finals, but said that disappointment makes her…
Grenada’s Kirani James wants World Youth 400m record
Published on July 8, 2009 |
Bressanone/Brixen – After back to back silver medals at the last two IAAF age group championships, Granada’s Kirani James has his eyes set on not just gold medals at this sixth World Youth Championships in Brixen/Bressanone but also records. James who will turn 17 on September 1, was second in the 400m at the 5th…
World Youth Championships – Day One – IAAF Morning Report
Published on July 8, 2009 |
The 6th IAAF World Youth Championships started on a high note courtesy of Norway’s Isabelle Pedersen who won heat 2 of the girl’s 100m Hurdles in a new World Youth leading time of 13.35, an improvement over her personal best by more than two tenths of a second. Pedersen was a clear winner as Samantha…
Ita’a and Anteneh to lead Ethiopian squad at World Youth
Published on July 8, 2009 |
World Youth Steeplechase best holder Korahubish Itaa and junior runner Emebet Anteneh will lead Ethiopia’s strong team of fifteen athletes for the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships in Bressanone, Italy (8-12 July 2009). Ita’a, who improved the World 3000m steeplechase youth best in Huleva, Spain last month, is the star of a large Ethiopian. In…
IAAF World Youth Championships
Published on May 16, 2008 |
The page will show you the qualifying standards for the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships in Bressanone, ITA from 8/12 July 2009. The championships is held every two years and the standards sometimes have change.
