- Ethiopia's Tizita Bogale duly won the race but Ciara Mageean with a stunning performance managed to upset the expected African domination when winning the silver medal ahead of Nancy Chepkwemoi on the final day of the 13th IAAF World Junior Championships at the Stade de Moncton.</p>... Read More
"I wanted to give David a comfortable lead, and we were trying to go for the record. We did well. We wanted to get the record," Errol Nolan of the USA.... Read More
Marija Vukovic of Montenegro won that country's first athletics medal of any kind - and gave the assembled spectators their first listen of the Montenegran national anthem at that - when she cleared 1.91m in the High Jump.... Read More
"Right now, I’m shocked. I can’t believe that I jumped 1.91m and I’m first in the world. I can’t believe it," Marija Vukovic of Montenegro.... Read More
it’s not a simple question. I don’t feel real right now. I did my job well, I think," Aleksey Fedorov of Russia.... Read More
Marija Vukovic of Montenegro won that country's first athletics medal of any kind - and gave the assembled spectators their first listen of the Montenegran national anthem at that - when she cleared 1.91m in the High Jump.<br><br>
World season’s leader Aleksey Fedorov became the first Russian in 20 years to win the men’s World Junior Triple Jump title here in Moncton his second round 16.68m securing the win over Ernesto Revé of Cuba (16.47) and Omar Craddock of the USA (16.23).
"The atmosphere was great, I was rested up, it all seemed to come together, so it felt good," Conor McCullough of the US.
"When I got it in first, I was running. I didn’t want anybody to catch me. I thought, I’m going to bring it home, I’m going to bring in the gold. They handed it to me first, and I’m going to show them the respect I have for them not to lose this," Regina George of the US.
The duel between the top two junior hammer throwers this year, throwing second and first in the order, was joined immediately in the first round of throwing. Conor McCullough reached 77.59m in the first throw of competition, but his lead barely lasted minutes as Akos Hudi flung the 6kg ball and chain out to 78.37m.<br><br>
The United States of America completed a sweep of all four relay titles here in Moncton as the men’s 4x400m team of Joshua Mance, Errol Nolan, David Verburg and Michael Berry clocked a new World Junior leading time 3:04.76.
"It was not a very hard race. When we started racing my body showed me I could win this race. When we did the first round then the second round you could see the other strong people. And then my body showed me I could win the final," David Mutua of Kenya.
"It (my smile) has to be there after that race. I am happy. My race, well, I have to be honest, I have some regrets because at the 9th hurdle, there was contact between me and the American in lane 7, I think," Pascal Martinot-Lagarde of France.
Team USA won the women’s 4x400m relay gold medal as a quartet of Daimond Dixon, Stacey-Ann Smith, Laura Roesler and Regina George clocked the season’s fastest time in the world this year at 3:31.20.
Kenya extended their total dominance of the men's distance events to include the middle distances as David Mutinda Mutua ran down the U.S. pair of Casimir Loxom and Robby Andrews on the 800m homestretch to complete a full set of gold medals. Kenya has not lost a men's event at 800m or longer here in Moncton.<br><br>
Jonathan Muia Ndiku was a superb winner of the men’s 3000m Steeplechase final here in Moncton as the 19-year-old clocked 8:23.48, the four fastest junior time in the world this year to demolish the rest of the 12-man field.
"The race was very, very great. I’m so happy to win this race," Jonathan Muia Ndiku of Kenya.