by Larry Eder
RESULTS (196 Patterson WYB, 20.45 Walsh, 6.66 Adams)
TOWNSVILLE (AUS, Dec 7): Australia celebrates a new track and field star with Eleanor Patterson soaring to a World Youth Best of 196 to win the girl’s under 18 high jump at the Australian All Schools Championships. The equal highest ever clearance by an under 18 aged athlete worldwide, the sensational performance is also an Australian under 18 record, Australian under 20 record, IAAF World Junior Championships qualifier and Commonwealth Games A-qualifier. Also achieving 196 as youth athletes were South African Charmaine Gale-Weavers in 1981 and Olga Turchak at that time Soviet Union in 1984. “You never go anywhere expecting to jump as well as I did today. I was hoping for a personal best but to come away with a performance like this is out of this world. It’s so exciting, and I couldn’t be happier,” Patterson said. Patterson credits her coach David Green for her continued success, and now has the 198m open age national record shared by Alison Inverarity and Vanessa Ward in her sights. Not to be outdone, Patterson’s fellow IAAF World Youth Championships gold medallist Matthew Denny also etched his name into the record books by eclipsing the meet record of Tim Driesen to win the boy’s under 18 hammer throw with a mark of 77.39. Denny also won the 1.5 kg discus with 65.46. In the 400 m James Kermond clocked 46.76. Jessica Thornton won the U16 400 m in 53.90 and alos the 100 m in 11.60 (+2.4, legal 11.76 in heats).
MELBOURNE (AUS, Dec 7): New Zealand shot putter Tom Walsh has thrown 20.45 m to break Jacko Gill’s New Zealand record. Walsh threw 20.30m last weekend in Christchurch but managed 15cm further at the Melbourne meeting to snatch the senior record. The new mark is seven centimetres more than the previous record of 20.38 set by Gill in December 2011.
BIRMINGHAM (USA, Dec 6): Sub 10 sprinter Harry Adams clocked 6.66 at the Panther Icebreaker indoor meet in the B final. Second Marcus Rowland 6.72 (but 6.71 in heats), also in heats US Indoor Champion 2013 D´Angelo Cherry 6.70. In the A final the winner Jalen Miller got 6.70 ahead of Michael Granger 6.72. Clayton Parros opened the season with solid 46.97 in the 400 m.
CHARLESTON (USA, Dec 6): Barbados hurdler and World Champs participant Greggmar Swift clocked 7.74 at 60 m hurdles. Shot putter Curtis Jensen improved to his first ever 20+ at this Early Bird meet with 20.29 m.
ALLENDALE (USA, Dec 6): Shane Crawford was timed at another Lake Early Bird meet with 6.69 at the 60 m. Canadian Moscow 1500 m semifinalist Nicole Sifuentes ran her first indoor 5000 m in good 15:50.52.
RIVERDALE (USA, Dec 6): Jacob Freeman started the weight throw season with 22.34 at the Manhattan Opener. Multiple Trinidad champion Annie Alexander got 17.31 in women shot put.
SOUTH BEND (USA, Dec 6): Pat Feeney clocked at the Blue and Gold Invitational solid 46.97 in the 400 m at the oversized track here.
LARAMIE (USA, Dec 6): World Universiade medalist 2011 Mason Finley opened in shot put with 20.12 at the Power Meet. Isaiah Grady improved at 55 m to 6.28 win.
BALTIMORE (USA, Dec 6): Coach O Invitational meet saw sensational 60 m heat times, EME NEWS suggests to wait for final verification. The summer 10.6 sprinter Berfrantz Charles clocked in heats 6.56 in the 60 m, he won the finals in more realistic 6.78. Second Rashad Smith 6.85 was also substantially faster in heats with 6.66. In women 60 m Jamaican Gayon Evans won in 7.34, but her heat time also fast 7.20. But in her case all looks more realistic as her best is 7.33.
BANGALORE (IND, Dec 7): Kerala state retained the overall champion title, its nineteenth in twenty-nine year history of the junior nationals. However Jessy Joseph from the champion state improved her own national youth record in 800m with a time of 2:08.65, that was 2/100th of a second faster than her previous mark which she set during the Inter-Zonal championships at Kochi earlier this year. Jessy’s personal best – 2:06.82 – from the Open Nationals at Ranchi remain intact as there was no one to push her in today’s race. The second national record of the day came from Bengal boy Chandan Bauri in the under-16 division. He clocked an impressive 22.11 in the 200 m. However the most impressive performance of the day came from Tamil Nadu’s Mohd Zuber in youth boys triple jump as he etched a meet mark of 15.50.
LOUGHBOROUGH (GBR, Dec 7): In an early season competition Luke Cutts vaulted 555 in the pole vault. 400 m hurdler Meghan Beesley won the women 60 m in 7.60.
CAMPBELLTOWN (AUS, Dec 7): Joshua Brown clocked here 6.68 (+1.8) in the 60 m.
GENEVE (SUI, Dec 7): Kenyan runners dominated the 36th Course de l´Escalade road race here. Abraham Kipyatich (20, his first race in Europe) won the 7.248 km for men in 20:55. Second Patrick Ereng 21:12 and third Ethiopian Ahunin Workeneh 21:22. Best European Belarus Maksim Pankratau as 10th in 21:49. Women winner at 4.79 km was Kenyan Cynthia Kosgei in15:55 over Jane Muia 15:55 and Canadian Asther Bacha 15:58. Here top European French Aurielle Bernard and Julie Coulaud as 5th and 6th in 16:11 and 16:25. This is the biggest road race in Switzerland with 33 695 names on the start list.
DOHA (QAT, Dec 6): Ethiopian Makida Abdela of Qatar Police topped in the women’s race of the World Police Cross-Country Championship while in the men’s section Qatar’s Mike Kipruto Kigen finished third to comp
lete an impressive show for the host nation. Qatar also won the second place in the overall team championship. Bahrain clinched the top honours in the team event and Tunisia had to settle for the third position. Abdela clocked 27:29 in the 8 km. Second and third were Ethiopians Askale Adula 27:37 and Tilahun Biruk 27:54. In the men 12 km Bahraini double success as Isaac Korir got 35:29 ahead of Bacha Regassa 35:35. They were followed by Qatari runners Mike Kigen and Henry Kiplagat.
PORTLAND (USA, Dec 7): Sarah Baxter did not make history at the Nike Cross Nationals as she after two wins in last two years finished third at the 5 km in 16:58. Winner Alexa Efraimson clocked 16:50 and second Elise Cranny16:54. In boys race the win for Taylor Wilmot 15:00 over Blake Haney 15:09and Tanner Anderson 15:09. Team wins for girls of Wayzata XC Club and boys of GIG XC Club.
MEMPHIS (USA): The 2013 St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend was canceled due to weather conditions.
