Kentucky track and field freshman Kendall Muhammad will compete for the United States at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ World Under-20 Championships, beginning on Tuesday.
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Also yesterday, quarter-milers Christopher Taylor and Sean Bailey made progress to today’s semi-finals, as did women’s 400m hurdlers Nicolee Foster and Shannon Kalawan, along with 100m sprinter Vanesha Pusey, who made it past the first round with the eighth-fastest time of the day.
The 18-year-old, who finished fourth over 200m at the recent US Olympic trials, clocked 10.17 to claim victory ahead of Italy’s Filippo Tortu with 10.24 and Mario Burke of Barbados with 10.26.
Signee Nathaniel Mechler wrapped up the second day of the decathlon with the final five events on Wednesday.
“World junior champion has a nice little ring to it”.
Pereira has since lowered her national record to 11.80.
With the deadline for the final entries now closed, a total of 1518 athletes (832 males and 686 females) have been entered to compete in Poland.
Germany’s Alina Kenzel dominated the shot put competition.
Admitting he was gutted, the 17-year-old said: “I am very disappointed”.
Javier Lowe failed to advance after managing only 15.38m for 23rd overall.
Burke qualified for the semifinal round Tuesday, when he ran the sixth fastest time overall at 10.34, before following that performance with the same time in the semifinals to finish second in the heat and qualify fifth overall for the finals. She had not competed in an open 400-meter race since mid-April when she placed third at the Bahamas Senior National Championships on June 25, when she ran 53.97 to secure a spot at the U20 World Championships.
“Maybe there was a bit of pressure too, because she had people texting her good luck and (willing her) to go under 12 seconds”.
The German’s best three events were to come, though, with his 4.80m pole vault 10cm higher than anyone else managed.
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Bromfield, who backed off at the end of her race and finished second in 52.18 seconds behind Australia’s Jessica Thornton in 52.12 seconds, said she did enough to qualify.
