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Caribbean athletes progress at Big 12 Championship

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Julien Alfred....The sophomore sprinter has the NCAA-leading mark at 60m and the No. 4 time at 200m this season- at NCAA West Preliminary
Julien Alfred riding high in Texas

AMES, Iowa – The No. 4/12 Texas Track and Field program put in a strong shift on Friday during the first day of the 2020 Big 12 Indoor Championship, winning one individual conference title, one relay crown and qualifying 22 competitors (9 men/13 women) for Saturday’s finals.

Senior O’Brien Wasome claimed the Longhorns’ individual Big 12 title on Friday, as he won the men’s long jump in dramatic fashion. Wasome, known best for his expertise in the triple jump, found himself sitting in third place entering the final round and needing to post a personal-best mark to win his first Big 12 indoor long jump title. Wasome did just that, launching himself a collegiate-best 8.00m/26-3, on the last jump of the day to win the Big 12 title.

Wasome’s title-winning mark made him the third-best indoor long jumper in school history and was the fifth-best individual performance overall. He joins Marquise Goodwin and Steffin McCarter as the only Longhorns to clear the eight-meter mark indoors. Wasome is also the sixth Longhorn (seventh instance) to win a Big 12 long jump title indoors.

The women’s distance medley relay team – made up by Kathryn Gillespie, Brooke Jaworski, Valery Tobias and Destiny Collins – ran away from the field in 11:24.53 to win the program’s first indoor DMR title since 2013. Gillespie opened with the 1,200-meter leg, clocking 3:30.92 to spark the Horns’ wire-to-wire victory. Behind the senior, Jaworski and Tobias covered the next two legs in 53.51 and 2:11.75, respectively. Collins closed out the race by running the mile leg in 4:48.35. It was the first individual conference title for all four UT women.

In the men’s heptathlon, freshman Leo Neugebauer scored 3,361 points in the first four events to open up a 117-point lead heading into Saturday. The German international matched his collegiate-best with a 7.12 in the 60-meter dash to open the day, but then won both the long jump (7.31m) and shot put (15.34m) to take the lead. He cleared 2.02m to tie for second in the high jump. Alex Loving current sits fifth in the heptathlon standings at 3,122, with George Patrick (2,936) and Philip Frank (2,929) holding down sixth and seventh, respectively.

Friday’s track events opened with the women’s 60-meter hurdles, where junior Tara Davis clocked an 8.30 to qualify for Saturday’s final. The race marked the first NCAA competition for Davis since the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships – a 629-day absence from collegiate action. She missed the 2019 season after transferring from Georgia, and missed the majority of the 2020 indoor season due to an injury suffered in training.

Davis – who also finished fourth in the women’s long jump at 6.17m – was one of several Longhorns to advance to Saturday’s finals. That list also features plenty of prominent Longhorns such as Julien Alfred, John Burt, Kynnedy Flannel, Kathryn Gillespie, Micaiah Harris and Jonathan Jones, among others.

Staying on the women’s side, senior Elena Bruckner closed out her Big 12 career by recording a 19.32m mark in the weight throw. It was a season-best for Bruckner, and the second-best throw in school history trailing only the school-record mark (19.60m) that she set at last year’s Big 12 Indoor Championship in Lubbock, Texas.

After day one, Texas sits in third place on the women’s side and in fourth on the men’s. The UT women have scored 36 points (6-of-19 events scored), while the men have logged 23 (5-of-19 events scored).

The Big 12 Indoor Championship concludes on Saturday, with both team titles still up for grabs. Coverage on Big 12 Now/ESPN+ begins at 12:15 p.m. CT.

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Wasome wins Big 12 long jump title

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Kerry-ann Flanigan
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O’Brien Wasome wins Big 12 long jump title

Jamaican and University of Texas’ athlete O’Brien Wasome recorded a personal best to win the men’s long jump at 2020 Big 12 Indoor Championship.

Wasome, known best for his expertise in the triple jump, found himself sitting in third place entering the final round and needing to post a personal-best mark to win his first Big 12 indoor long jump title. Wasome did just that, launching himself a collegiate-best 8.00m, on the last jump of the day to win the Big 12 title.

Wasome’s title-winning mark made him the third-best indoor long jumper in school history and was the fifth-best individual performance overall. He joins Marquise Goodwin and Steffin McCarter as the only Longhorns to clear the eight-meter mark indoors. Wasome is also the sixth Longhorn (seventh instance) to win a Big 12 long jump title indoors.

Justin Hall of Texas Tech got second with 7.88 and Rayon Allen of Oklahoma, third in 7.70m.

Meanwhile, Julien Alfred of the University of Texas is the fastest qualifier in the women’s 60m dash with 7.26. Aaliyah Birmingham of Oklahoma State is the next best with 7.27 and Gabrielle McDonald, third with 7.34.

In the 200m, Alfred with 23.69 is the third fastest behind her Texas Longhorn teammates Kynnedy Flannel, 23.49 and Kennedy Simon, 23.64.

TJ Brock Jr of TCU is the fastest male with 6.67 while Micaiah Harris of Texas 20.92 is the fastest going into the 200m final.

Texas Longhorns’ Stacey-Ann Williams, formerly of STETHS, is the second-fastest 400m qualifier with 53.48. Kennedy Simon, Williams’ teammate, leads with 52.45.

Derrick Mokaleng of TCU leads the male 4090m with 46.56.

Ruth Usoro of Texas Tech won the women’s long jump with a leap of 6.54. Destiny Longmire of TCU was second in 6.39m.

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HOT PICKS: Gibson/McCook Relays

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Anthony Foster
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KC at Gibson McCook Relays
KC at Gibson McCook Relays

The 2020 Gibson McCook Relays takes place at the National Stadium in Kingston on 29 Feb.

Again, athletes and their schools go in search of bragging rights with less than one month to go before Champs 2020.

Below are our top three picks for the 4x100m, 4x400m and 4x800m events.

GIRLS
4x100m GIRLS C4
1. Hydel
2. St. Jago
3. Edwin Allen

  • These teams ran 47secs at Central Champs

4x100m GIRLS C3
1. Hydel
2. Edwin Allen
3. St. Jago

  • Add Holmwood who will fight with the Edwin and Jago for minor places.

4x100m GIRLS C2
1. Edwin Allen
2. Holmwood
3. Hydel

  • Edwin Allen will have to drop the baton twice to lose

4x100m GIRLS C1
1. Holmwood
2. St. Jago
3. Edwin Allen

  • Kevona Davis of Edwin Allen and Ashanti Moore of Hydel could make a lot of difference for their teams here.

4x800m GIRLS Open
1. Edwin Allen
2. Holmwood
3. St. Jago

  • Edwin Allen has the edge but won’t have things there way with Holmwood.

4x400m GIRLS Open
1. Holmwood
2. Hydel
3. St. Jago 

  • Holmwood with the quartet at Penn Relays for Holmwood in 2019

BOYS

4x100m BOYS C4
1. KC
2. STETHS
3. JC

  • Wolmer’s should also feature here.

4x100m BOYS C3
1. JC
2. KC
3. Calabar

  • KC will be very dangerous here and could also win.

4x100m BOYS C2
1. KC
2. STETHS
3. Calabar 

  • Should be a comfortable victory for KC

4x100m BOYS C1
1. JC
2. KC
3. STETHS

  • Tough one to call, especially with St. Jago, but JC gets the edge

4x800m BOYS Open
1. Calabar
2. KC
3. JC

  • Calabar with Kevroy Venson and Kimar Farquharson is unstoppable. KC with their Africans and JC with a few Caribbean talents will fight for 2nd and 3rd 

4x400m BOYS Open
1. KC
2. JC
3. Holmwood

  • Excelsior, Champs 2019 winners, will also be a threat and like any of those top three, could win. All four teams ran 3:11 this season already.

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Caribbean athletes to lead Gators at SEC Championships

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Anthony Foster
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Clayton Brown comes up big at US meet
Clayton Brown shines

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Gators will enter championship season this weekend as they head to College Station, Texas, for this year’s Indoors SEC Championships. 

Florida’s men, who were crowned indoor champions in 2019, will look to defend the title during this weekend’s two-day championship meet while sitting at the No. 3 spot in the latest national rankings. Meanwhile, Florida’s women will enter the weekend ranked 11th nationally.

The men’s 60 meters will be headlined by senior Raymond Ekevwo, who established himself as the NCAA leader during this year’s Razorback Invitational. The Nigerian sprinter crossed in 6.53 seconds in Arkansas, moving to the No. 3 spot on UF’s All-Time Top 10 list and coming 0.03 seconds short from tying 2019 The Bowerman winner Grant Holloway’s 6.50 school record.

Senior Doneisha Anderson (Bahamas), who logged an NCAA-leading time of 52.06 seconds two weeks ago during Clemson’s Tiger Paw Invitational, will look to make a splash in the 400. She will be joined by fellow quarter-miler Taylor Manson, who ranks ninth in the nation and fourth in the SEC. 

Junior Cory Poole will represent the Gators in the 60-meter hurdles. The hurdler, who ranks tied for fifth in the nation and tied for second in the SEC, logged a 7.66-second time in Clemson, moving the No. 3 spot on UF’s All-Time Top 10 list.

Thrower Thomas Mardal will headline the weight throw for Florida, while Jumper Clayton Brown (Jamaica) will represent the Gators in triple jump and the high jump.

Mardal, who made his season debut two weeks ago in Clemson, ranks fourth in the nation and second in the SEC with a 22.75-meter mark. Meanwhile, Brown ranks tied for fifth in the nation and tied for third in the SEC in the high jump, while standing fifth nationally and second in the conference in the triple jump. 

Newcomer Semira Killebrew, who ranks second in school history and eight nationally, will be seen during the women’s 60 meters. Killebrew set a new personal-best time of 7.19 seconds in Clemson, falling only 0.03 seconds short of setting a new school record. 

RETURNING 2019 SEC INDOOR MEDALISTS

  • Clayton Brown – Triple Jump (Silver)
  • Jack Guyton, Justin Pacifico – DMR (Bronze)
  • Thomas Mardal – Weight Throw (Bronze)
  • Doneisha Anderson, Taylor Manson, Nikki Stephens – 4×400 Relay (Bronze)
  • Abbie Harrelson – DMR (Silver)

SEC INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS BROADCAST INFORMATION (ALL TIMES EASTERN)

SEC INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS MEET INFORMATION (ALL TIMES EASTERN)

  • Meet Website
  • Meet Notes (PDF)
  • Ranked Teams: Alabama (No. 23 men; No. 17 women), Arkansas (No. 3 women, No. 10 men), Georgia (No. 2 women; No. 6 men), Kentucky (No. 6 women, No. 19 men), LSU (No. 1 women; No. 2 men), Ole Miss (No. 20 women), Tennessee (No. 8 men), Texas A&M (No.5 women, No. 13 men)
  • Venue: Gilliam Indoor Track (Texas A&M University)

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Boys and Girls Champs Records

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Anthony Foster
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KC at Champs 2019
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Tokyo 2020 to consider downsize Torch Relay

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Tokyo 2020
Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay is likely to be affected because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The Torch Relay will begin in Fukushima Prefecture on March 29. Fukushima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region and is among the disaster-hit.

However, while the Torch Relay will begin as planned, Toshirō Mutō, chief executive said considerations are taking place to reduce the stops.

Japanese media are reporting that scaling down the size of the departure and arrival ceremonies could be among the measures put in place by Tokyo 2020.

“Downsizing is among the approaches we can consider,” said Mutō.

The virus has so far killed 2,770 people and infected more than 81,000 worldwide.

“Bringing spectators together in large numbers increases the risk of infection,” Mutō said, according to the Kyodo news agency.

Senior member of the International Olympic Committee, Dick Pound, said the IOC has until the end of May to decide whether or not the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in the light of the coronavirus crisis.

“You could certainly go to two months out if you had to,” Pound, who is still an IOC member, was quoted as saying.

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St. Mary rule Eastern Champs

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Kerry-ann Flanigan
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St. Mary win Eastern Champs 2020

St. Mary High are champions of the east. St. Mary topped the overall standing of the 2020 Eastern Athletics Championships, which ended on Tuesday (25 Feb) at the National Stadium.

St. Mary tallied 651 points to beat Buff Bay 546.5 and Titchfield 319.5. Oberlin 286, St. Thomas Technical 218, Port Antonio 206, Glengoffe 165, Morant Bay 150, St. Mary Technical 143 and Paul Bogle 105 rounded off the top 10 schools.

St. Mary won the female section with 407 points ahead of Buff Bay 301.5, Oberlin 198, Titchfield 171.5 and Glengoffe 121.

Buff Bay with 245 points is the male champion. St. Mary High 244, Titchfield 148, Port Antonio 115 and St. Thomas Technical 111.

Abigail Schaaffe, with two records, were among the eight record breakers at the two-day championships.

Schaaffe ran a record 2;16.48 to beat her St. Mary High teammate Latasha Hall, 2:19.50 in the Class 1 girls’ 800m. The previous record was 2:16.59

Schaaffe was at it again, this time in the girls’ 400m hurdles open, running 61.18 to beat the old mark of 62.24. Jamera Scott of Buff Bay was second in 67.30.

Other record-breakers were Shone Walters, Bianca Samuels, Shantoy Chambers, Racquil Broaderwick, Raymond Richards, Cordaelia Williams and St. Mary High’s Class 3 girls’ 4x100m quartet.

Walters, also of St. Mary High, ran 4:56.88 to beat the previous mark of 4:59.91 in the Class 2 girls’ 1500m. Kaiesha Samuels of Buff Bay was second in 5:28.72.

Samuels of Oberlin threw a record 35.47m, beating the old mark of 34.53m, in the Class 2 girls’ discus.

Chambers, also of Oberlin, broke the Class 1 girls’ discus record with 39.83. The previous best was 38.35m.

Broaderwick of St. Mary High became the first 50-point Class 2 discus thrower in the meet’s history. He threw 51.23m to beat the previous mark of 48.02.
The Class 1 discus record was 50.16m set in 2012.

Richards of Buff Bay also became the first over 50-point javelin thrower in the competition’s history. He threw the spear 52.33 meters to beat the old mark of 49.14m.

St. Mary Class 3 girls’ 4x100m team ran a record 48.02 in the heats, but could only manage 48.10 in the final.

Williams of St. Mary cleared 1.65 to equal the record in the Class 2 girls’ high jump.

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Kosgei’s 2:14:04 world marathon record, men’s 4x400m relay world indoor record

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Kosgei, who celebrated her 26th birthday on 20 February, shattered the previous mark at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on 13 October
Kosgei, who celebrated her 26th birthday on 20 February, shattered the previous mark at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on 13 October

Brigid Kosgei’s 2:14:04 world marathon record and the 3:01.51 world indoor 4x400m relay record set by a University of Houston quartet have been ratified.

Kosgei, who celebrated her 26th birthday on 20 February, shattered the previous mark at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on 13 October, slicing a massive 81 seconds from the 2:15:25 record Paul Radcliffe set in 2003 – when Kosgei was just nine years old.

The Kenyan’s world record ambitions were clear from the outset. Opening with a blistering 15:28 first 5km, she settled into an unprecedented rhythm that quickly turned her run into a race against Radcliffe’s long-standing record. Reaching 10km in 31:28, she churned out subsequent five-kilometre segments of 15:58 and 16:01 to reach the midway point in 1:06:59, itself a world-class time for the half marathon which put her on schedule for an astonishing 2:14:00 performance.

She forged on with 16:06, 15:45 and 15:56 five-kilometre splits, putting her on pace to finish more than a minute inside of Radcliffe’s record after 35km. Looking remarkably comfortable, she powered on alone after her male pacers drifted away near the 40km mark, and, realising the enormity of what she was about to achieve, ran with a smile on her face over the race’s waning stages.

“When I crossed the line it was really amazing. I was not expecting to break the world record,” said Kosgei, who successfully defended her Chicago title.

“I was well prepared for the race, and at the starting point I knew it maybe would be a record – or not, so long as I would be near to a record. But I was not expecting it.

“But when I got to 15 kilometres I realised I was at the record pace. And then for me it was a matter of perseverance, and then I could become the world record holder.”

Houston quartet supplants Poland as men’s 4x400m relay indoor record holders

The University of Houston squad of Amere Lattin, Obie Igbokwe, Jermaine Holt and Kahmari Montgomery clocked 3:01.51 in Clemson, USA, on 9 February 2019 to clip 0.26 from the previous world indoor 4x400m record of 3:01.77 set by a Polish quartet at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

Jakob Larsen is World Athletics new Director of Competition and Events

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Jakob Larsen is World Athletics new Director of Competition and Events
Jakob Larsen is World Athletics new Director of Competition and Events

Jakob Larsen, the man who led the organising committee behind the innovative and challenging World Athletics Cross Country course in Aarhus, Denmark, last year, has been appointed Director of Competition and Events for World Athletics.

Following a worldwide search which began at the end of last year, the 50-year old Danish national was selected from a strong list of 74 candidates from more than 20 countries.

Commenting on the appointment, World Athletics CEO, Jon Ridgeon said:

“Jakob’s skills and experience across our sport are rare and valuable. He combines incredible knowledge of athletics, having run a Member Federation, hosted world championships, one-day meetings, park and road events, with creativity and innovation which is critical to the journey we are on to grow athletics.”

“Jakob’s background in running high-performance programmes, coaching, developing schools’ tournaments and scientific research gives him a unique perspective on our sport from the playground to the podium. We are delighted to welcome him to his new role at a time when we are focussing on our global calendar, defining our core product and expanding our one-day meetings. Jakob will be a real asset.

As CEO of the Danish Athletic Federation for the last 12 years Larsen has grown revenues by 800% and transformed the organisation from a traditional national governing body to an agile project-based organisation with an innovative performance system. He and his team have invested in hosting several significant road races and other events, including the Schools Olympics, the Royal Run, the Copenhagen Half Marathon and two World Athletics Championships (World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in 2014 and the highly acclaimed World Cross Country Championships in 2019).

Commenting on his appointment, Jakob Larsen said: “This is a real honour for me. I have worked across many facets of sport over the last 25 years – from research and analysis to delivering events at all levels, coaching and running a national sports federation. Athletics is a sport I love and I am joining a world class team operating on a global stage in the most participated sport in the world. It is a dream come true and I am looking forward to being part of the team that creates and delivers the changes that will see athletics grow from strength to strength. With 214 Member Federations I can’t think of a stronger global network to work alongside to deliver this growth.”

Larsen will take up his position in early April and will be based in Monaco at World Athletics head office.

As part of his role, Larsen will Chair the newly-formed Global Calendar Unit. The Unit which is currently chaired by World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon has been established to lead, manage and coordinate all parts of the global athletics calendar from World to National Championships and all competitions in between. Its aim is to create a 3-4 year long-term, constantly updated global calendar to make the competition schedule across the globe easier to understand and follow for all stakeholders. Membership of the Unit come from all six areas and include:

Cherry Alexander (GBR, European Athletics Competition Chair)
Alfonz Juck (SVK, Euro Meetings President)
Jean Pierre Schoebel (MON, Wanda Diamond League representative)
Anna Riccardi (ITA, World Athletics Council & Former Chair of European Calendar Working Group)
Duffy Mahoney (USA, USATF Chief of Sport Performance)
Michael Serralta (PUR, Competition Director NACAC)
Yukio Seki (JPN, JAAF International Relations Director)
Yvonne Mullins (AUS, Oceania General Secretary)
Helio Gesta de Melo (BRA, CONSUDATLE President)
Jackson Tuwei (KEN, Athletics Kenya President)

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