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Gay breaks 100m American Record; Fountain dominates in Heptathlon 100m M – Tyson Gay
Sunday, Gay was back for the semifinals and finals in the event. He coasted to a 9.85 (2.2 wind) in the semifinals to win his heat then turned in the fastest 100m ever run with his 9.68 in the finals. That was better than the wind assisted mark (5.0) by Obadele Thompson of Barbados when he ran a 9.69 in 1996. Gay had previously ran a 9.76 (2.2) windy mark in 2007. His win also put him on the 4x100m relay team. Gay will look to make it 3 events in Beijing in August when he tries to qualify for the 200m next weekend during the 2nd session of the US Trials. Gay has run the 2nd fastest 200m ever with his 19.62 he ran at the US Championships last year in Indianapolis. The World Record is 19.32 ran by Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Bernard Williams had entered the 100m but his time did not qualify for a place in the trials. He will, however, be part of the 200m next weekend. Williams won silver in the 200m at the 2004 Olympics.
Fountain returned Saturday to display much of the same dominance. She won the long jump by more than a foot with a 22-7 leap that scored her 1132 more points. Fountain followed with a win in the javelin at 158-0 for 824 points – giving her 5 wins in the 1st 6 events. In the final event – the 800m run – Fountain coasted, finishing well back in the field but adding 722 points to her total. She finished with a personal best of 6667 points – the top total in the World this year. The previous high was 6618 by Russia’s Tatyana Chernova. It was a personal best for Fountain which was 6502 set in 2005. It will be Fountain’s 1st Olympics after finishing 4th at the Trials in 2004 just missing the US team. She has competed in the last 2 World Championships. Fountain is not done, however, as she is set to begin the long jump competition today. If she makes the finals of that event, it will take place Thursday in the opening day of Session 2. Only 2 entrants have a better qualifying mark than the 22-7 Fountain jumped in the heptathlon. She is also eligible to compete in the 100m hurdles next weekend but has not yet declared her intentions to do so.
The finals saw Barnes running close to 3rd with a chance to still make the team when she fell on a hurdle coming down the final stretch. She got to her feat and finished with a 1:00.18 in 7th place. Wallace was disqualified in the race for hooking the 7th hurdle. She did not finish in the top 3 before learning of the DQ. Barnes had also qualified to run the 400m but the opening round of the that event took place just 1 hour prior to the finals of the 400m hurdles so she scratched from that event. 100m W – LaShaunte’a Moore In Oregon over the weekend, Moore ran 3rd in the qualifying heats of the 100m with an 11.12. Juanita Broaddus also ran in the event but failed to get out of the opening round. Moore finished Friday with a 4th place effort in the quarterfinals in 11.04 to earn a spot in the semifinals Saturday. She returned Saturday to run an 11.03 to once again place 4th in her heat and advance to the finals later in the day. Her attempt to make the US Team at this year’s Olympics came to an end with an 8th place finish in the finals in 11.22.
Derrick Brew – a bronze medal winner at the 2004 Olympics in the 400m – did not make it out of the opening round this year. The 30-year old Brew couldn’t keep pace with the younger runners in the quarterfinals of the 400m Sunday, taking 5th in his heat, failing to make the semifinals. Floyd Thompson – another veteran on the track circuit – made it to the semifinals of the 800m, running a 1:48.04 in the opening quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Thompson ran a 1:51.17 and did not earn a spot in the finals. Derrick Williams had a disappointing showing at the trials, failing to get out of the quarterfinals with his 51.92 in the 400m hurdles. Williams had run a personal best of 48.26 just last year and had the 6th best qualifying mark going into the competition. Carly Bloomfield was the final thrower to earn a spot at the US Trials in the javelin, where she competed for the 1st time in the US Championships. She finished 23rd at the event with a throw of 145-2. Still to compete Susan King and Cassaundra Lee will compete in the shot put. King had a put of 59-4 3/4 this past May, which is the 6th best qualifying mark in the event. Lee has the 9th best mark with her 57-8 1/4. King threw for Barton in 04 and 05 while Lee was with the Cougars from 03-04. Dexter Faulk is just outside the top 10 in with his personal best of 13.34 in the 110m hurdles. Faulk, who ran for Barton in 03 and 04 has moved into the top 15 hurdlers in the US the past couple of years. Thomas Ross, who has run a 13.65 in the event has entered but may not be among the top 32 marks to compete. Remaining TV Schedule For full coverage of the US Olympic Trials, go to http://www.usatf.org -30- Check out Barton County Track Online at www.bartonccc.edu/sports |
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Tyson Gay and Hyleas Fountain both turned in dominate performances over the weekend at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon in the process of earning themselves a spot in the Olympics for the 1st time their careers. Gay broke the American record in the 100m while Fountain dominated the field in the heptathlon. Both will be back for more during the 2nd session of the US Trials. There were the only two former Barton Community College athletes to earn a spot on the US team during the 1st weekend of qualifying.
In the opening round, Gay was confused by the lines on the track, misjudging the finish line before realizing his mistake and sprinting to the end for a 4th place finish in his heat at 10.12. He atoned for that mistake later in the day as he ran the 9.77 in the quarterfinals with a wind of 1.6. For a time to be wind-legal for record purposes, it must be below 2.0 mps (4.5 mph). The old record was 9.79 ran by Maurice Green in 1999. It was the 4th fastest time ever run in the event where Jamaica’s Usain Bolt holds the World Record at 9.72. Jamaican Asafa Powell has run a 9.74 and Bolt also has a 9.76. Gay, Bolt, and Powell have all run 9.77. Gay’s previous best was a 9.84 ran in 2006.
Heptathon W – Hyleas Fountain
400m hurdles W – Miriam Barnes, Latosha Wallace
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