Morgan Lake looked far less drained after eleven high jump approaches than she did after a two-day heptathlon.“I’ve had some ice baths, did a bit of shopping, relaxing and making sure I was in the right mind-set to compete,” she said of the recovery process between the heptathlon’s conclusion on Wednesday and the high jump final on Sunday.Lake’s second victory was Great Britain’s first high jump gold at the World Juniors since Steve Smith in 1992, and their first women’s medal in the event since 1990.While combined events athletes have doubled back to win gold in single events before, Lake is the first to double with the high jump at a global level since Harold Osborn at the 1924 Olympics in Paris (Osborn won his high jump medal before returning to win the decathlon) and the first female in history to achieve such a feat.The second win was much easier, Lake explained, but different from the heptathlon high jump. “It was kind of hard to have qualifying; I haven't done that before, to have qualifying and then a final, with a break.”Lake noted one other difference between the heptathlon and the high jump when describing a lower-height miss early in the competition. “I'm not often in the position where I have to get my first height in because of count-back. I tried to rush over. It happens quite often that I miss one because I take it too easy, mentally.“I think the competitions were about the same. The conditions were better today, so it was a bit easier to jump today than it was in the heptathlon.”Despite the favourable conditions, Lake’s winning clearance of 1.93m in the high jump was slightly lower than the 1.94m clearance she achieved in the heptathlon, a height which launched her to the top of the standings in the seven-discipline event. Either mark would have won all world junior high jump titles since 2004.Lake made three attempts at 1.97m, which would have been a British senior record had she succeeded.The 1.94m clearance was her best ever, and combined with another best in the javelin, at 41.66m, put her in position to win the heptathlon.Nonetheless, Lake said: “The high jump was a surprise today.“I think in the heptathlon, you keep going for two days, aiming towards a title. The high jump was over in an hour or so.“In the past two years [the high jump has] been my favourite event [of the seven in the heptathlon]. The high jump is a hero event, so for the last two years I've been focusing on that.“I like how it's predictable. You have the same run-up every time, so you know where you are.”The successful junior double gave Lake more to think about. “My main focus was the heptathlon at first. It wasn't until later that I thought I'd try the high jump too. If the timetable allows it, I'll do this double again. Normally they clash. But if I could do it in good form, I'd do it.”Lake’s next competition will be the last of her season. “I'll just do the high jump at the European Championships [in Zurich in August]. That will be it for me.“I haven't done as many competitions as usual this year,” she continued. “I normally do more in April.”The composed, confident Lake is at odds with the mental picture of a 17-year-old who will still be eligible for junior competition when the championships return in Kazan in 2016. Yet Lake was still a precocious 16 at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk in 2013, leading at the end of the first day. Her second day wasn’t quite together in Donetsk; a disappointing long jump and javelin dropped her to sixth, and she didn’t start the 800m.The javelin performance in Eugene showed that the lessons of Donetsk were well learned by Lake. Not only did she better the defending junior champion, Yorgelis Rodriguez of Cuba, but also the world youth champion, Celina Leffler of Germany, who finished fourth in Eugene.“I don't think much about age,” she explained. “I think about all the training I've done.”Despite Lake’s composure, she professed surprise with her double in Eugene. “I still can't really get over it. I didn't think I'd get a medal here, maybe in two years’ time [at the 2016 World Juniors in Kazan], but to get two medals at this championship, I'm really happy.”Parker Morse for the IAAF

Morgan Lake looked far less drained after eleven high jump approaches than she did after a two-day heptathlon.

Lake superior to heptathlon and high jump rivals

- Read on for English and French language versions of this story - La traduction française suit le texte anglaisThe 1st IAAF World Junior Coaches Conference was a resounding success with more than 200 coaches from 60 IAAF Member Federations attending the one-day event in Eugene on Monday (28).<o:p></o:p>The event, held in the University of Oregon’s Erb Memorial Union Ballroom, followed on directly from the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, which concluded the day before.The conference was opened by IAAF President Lamine Diack. <o:p></o:p>IAAF Vice President and chairman of the Development Commission Sergey Bubka, as well as IAAF Council Member and chairman of the Coaches‘ Commission Victor Lopez, were also on hand and talked broadly about the importance of coaching and the knowledge required.<o:p></o:p>The floor was then handed over to six experts from around the world who gave presentations on a variety of topics, which included: the physiological, psychological and training issues relevant to junior athletes, especially prodigious performers at an elite level.<o:p></o:p><u1:p></u1:p>The speakers were: IAAF Director of Development &amp; Member Relations Dept Malek El-Hebil, Dr Randall L Wilber (USA), Helmar Hommel (GER), Dr Keith Barr (USA), Professor Dr Ulrich Hartmann (GER) and Dr Craig Poole (USA). <o:p></o:p><u1:p></u1:p>A measure of the impact of the presentations (which were immediately available to all participants at the end of the conference) was that, owing to the plethora of questions after each presentation, the moderators did not have enough time for all of them to be answered by the relevant speakers.<o:p></o:p>Thanks should go to the USAF and its personnel for helping make the conference possibly the best ever organised by the IAAF.<o:p></o:p>This conference is the latest in the series of coaching seminars promoted and organised by the IAAF as part of its commitment to the development of the sport. <o:p></o:p>It follows in the footsteps of the successful 2nd IAAF World Coaches Conference held in Moscow last August, immediately after the conclusion of the 2013 IAAF World Championships.IAAF<hr /><h3>La première Conférence mondiale des Entraîneurs de juniors de l’IAAF connaît un succès retentissant</h3>La première Conférence mondiale des Entraîneurs de juniors de l’IAAF a remporté un succès d’envergure, avec plus de 200 entraîneurs de 60 Fédérations membres de l’IAAF participant à cet événement organisé sur une journée à Eugene lundi (28).La manifestation, organisée dans la grande salle de bal Erb Memorial de l’Université de l’Oregon, s’est déroulée dans la foulée immédiate des Championnats du monde Juniors de l’IAAF, Oregon 2014, qui se sont terminés la veille. La conférence a été ouverte par le président de l’IAAF, Lamine Diack.Sergey Bubka, le vice-président de l’IAAF et président de la Commission de développement de l’IAAF, ainsi que Victor Lopez, Membre du Conseil de l’IAAF et président de la Commission des entraîneurs, étaient également présents, et tous deux se sont exprimés de manière générale sur l’importance de l’entraînement et les connaissances requises. La parole est ensuite passée tour-à-tour à six spécialistes du monde entier qui ont effectué des présentations sur une variété de sujets, dont les aspects physiologiques, psychologiques et les questions liées à l’entraînement qui sont propres aux athlètes juniors, particulièrement à ceux accomplissant des performances prodigieuses au plus haut niveau mondial. Ces intervenants étaient: le directeur du département des Développement et des Relations avec les Membres de l’IAAF, Malek El-Hebil&nbsp;; Dr Randall L Wilber (USA)&nbsp;; Helmar Hommel (GER)&nbsp;; Dr Keith Barr (USA)&nbsp;; Prof. Dr Ulrich Hartmann (GER)&nbsp;; Dr Craig Poole (USA).L’intérêt porté au sujet par le public présent à ces présentations (toutes mises à disposition de tous les participants dès la fin de la conférence) a été illustré par la pléthore de questions adressées aux conférenciers ; celles-ci ont même été si nombreuses que les modérateurs n’ont pas eu assez de temps pour que toutes puissent être traitées. Il nous faut exprimer ici toute notre reconnaissance à l’USTAF et à son personnel pour avoir contribué&nbsp;à l’organisation de cette conférence, qui a peut-être bien été la meilleure jamais organisée par l’IAAF.Cette conférence était la dernière en date dans la série de séminaires sur l’entraînement promues et organisées par l’IAAF, s’inscrivant dans son engagement en faveur du développement de l’athlétisme. Elle succède notamment à la deuxième Conférence mondiale des Entraîneurs de l’IAAF, organisée à Moscou en août dernier, immédiatement après la clôture des Championnats du monde de l’IAAF 2013. IAAF

The 1st IAAF World Junior Coaches Conference was a resounding success with more than 200 coaches from 60 IAAF Member Federations attending the one-day event in Eugene on Monday (28).

1st IAAF World Junior Coaches Conference a huge success

- Read on for English and French language versions of this story - La traduction française suit le texte anglaisMore than 950 junior athletes flocked to the IAAF anti-doping educational outreach programme during the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014.The IAAF outreach programme was also supported by the IAAF ambassadors Ato Boldon, Joanna Hayes, Gail Devers, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, as well as USADA ambassador Lauryn Williams.Japan’s former world and Olympic hammer champion Koji Murofushi was also on site during the competition and helped by bringing a handful of hammer throwers and the entire Japanese team to the stands so they could find out more about the outreach programme.The presence of the star athletes in Eugene and their achievements in the sport provided the perfect example to the juniors, showing that there is no need for doping; through hard work and dedication it is possible to become a global champion.For the majority of athletes in Eugene, it was also their introduction to the world of doping control.&nbsp; Recognising that these athletes are the future of the sport, the IAAF’s aim is to encourage a lifetime of fair play and honesty.IAAF<hr /><h3>Le programme pédagogique antidopage outreach de l’IAAF touche près de mille jeunes athlètes à Eugene&nbsp;
</h3>Plus de 950 athlètes juniors ont participé au programme pédagogique outreach de l’IAAF à Eugene au cours des
Championnats du monde Juniors de l’IAAF, Oregon 2014.Le Programme Outreach de l’IAAF était notamment 
soutenu par les Ambassadeurs de l’IAAF Ato Boldon, Joanna Hayes, Gail 
Devers et Jackie Joyner-Kersee, ainsi que par l’Ambassadeur de l’USADA, 
Lauryn Williams.L’ancien recordman du monde et champion olympique du 
lancer de marteau, Koji Murofushi, était également sur place au cours de
 la compétition, et il a largement contribué au succès du programme, 
notamment en accompagnant au stand du Programme
 Outreach plusieurs lanceurs de marteau ainsi que l’équipe japonaise 
toute entière, afin qu’ils prennent connaissance de toutes les 
informations disponibles.
La présence à Eugene de ces stars de l’athlétisme, qui
 ont tous accompli de nombreux exploits dans leurs disciplines 
respectives, a été un exemple parfait pour les juniors, leur démontrant 
qu’il n’est nullement besoin d’avoir recours au dopage,
 et qu’il est parfaitement possible de devenir un champion mondial au 
travers d’un travail acharné et d’un engagement total envers sa 
discipline.
Pour la majorité des athlètes présents à Eugene, il 
s’agissait de la première fois qu’ils se trouvaient confrontés à 
l’univers des contrôles antidopage. Bien consciente que ces jeunes 
représentent l’avenir de l’athlétisme, l’objectif de l’IAAF
 est de les encourager à suivre, toute leur vie durant, un chemin balisé
 par le fair-play et l’honnêteté.
IAAF

More than 950 junior athletes flocked to the IAAF anti-doping educational outreach programme during the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014.

Almost 1000 young athletes introduced to IAAF’s anti-doping educational outreach programme in Eugene

- Read on for English and French language versions of this story - La traduction fran&ccedil;aise suit le texte anglaisMore than 100 competitors at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 took advantage of the IAAF media training workshop "Making the most of my athletics career" staged in Eugene over the last three days of the championships. Three separate hour-long sessions were held on consecutive days from Friday to Sunday (25-27) and were designed to give tomorrow's stars of the sport an insight how to make an impact, and avoid some pitfalls, with social media as well as some basic media training tips. Hosted by five-time Olympian and well-known presenter Charmaine Crooks, the seminars included presentations by IAAF Ambassadors Ato Boldon and Joanna Hayes as well as social media guru Professor Andy Miah, director of the Creative Futures Institute at the University of the West of Scotland.The question was posed to participants: &ldquo;Have you ever wondered what will happen if you become world junior champion?&rdquo; Miah gave the young athletes guidelines on how to use social media, such as Twitter and Facebook accounts, so that they can maximise their profile, project themselves and the sport in a positive light; as well as some very important pitfalls to avoid.Hayes and Boldon, who can both look back on careers in athletics at the highest level including winning Olympic medals, talked about how to deal with the media, after winning and losing.It was clear that everybody who attended the sessions, with representatives from 20 IAAF Member Federations, left energised and with plenty to think about."IAAF media training was very helpful in coaching us through the dos and donts of social media. It helped me feel more comfortable about the way I present myself in interviews,&rdquo; said US sprinter Kendal Williams, the men&rsquo;s 100m gold medallist at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014.&ldquo;I think what&nbsp;I took away most is that what you put on social media you can never take back, which makes me think a little more before&nbsp;I say something or post something,&rdquo; added Williams&rsquo; compatriot Desiree Freier, the women&rsquo;s pole vault silver medallist.However, most of the participants left muttering just one word: &ldquo;Awesome!&rdquo;Phil Minshull for the IAAF&nbsp; <hr /><h3>Les jeunes athl&egrave;tes b&eacute;n&eacute;ficient de l&rsquo;atelier de formation m&eacute;diatique de l&rsquo;IAAF</h3>Plus de 100 comp&eacute;titeurs aux Championnats du monde Juniors de l&rsquo;IAAF, Oregon 2014&nbsp; ont saisi l&rsquo;opportunit&eacute; de participer &agrave; un atelier de formation m&eacute;diatique de l&rsquo;IAAF intitul&eacute; &ldquo;Comment profiter au maximum de sa carri&egrave;re d&rsquo;athl&egrave;te?&rdquo; organis&eacute; &agrave; Eugene au cours des trois derni&egrave;res journ&eacute;es de la comp&eacute;tition.&nbsp; Trois s&eacute;ances distinctes d&rsquo;une heure chacune se sont ainsi tenues vendredi 25, samedi 26 et dimanche 27. Elles &eacute;taient con&ccedil;ues pour donner aux stars de demain une vue d&rsquo;ensemble des diff&eacute;rentes mani&egrave;res possibles de s&rsquo;illustrer, des principaux &eacute;cueils - notamment li&eacute;s aux m&eacute;dias sociaux - &agrave; &eacute;viter, et pour distiller quelques astuces de base pour g&eacute;rer au mieux ses relations avec la presse. Anim&eacute;s par la quintuple olympienne et pr&eacute;sentatrice renomm&eacute;e Charmaine Crooks, les s&eacute;minaires ont b&eacute;n&eacute;fici&eacute; de pr&eacute;sentations effectu&eacute;es par les Ambassadeurs de l&rsquo;IAAF, Ato Boldon et Joanna Hayes, ainsi que par le gourou des m&eacute;dias sociaux, le professeur Andy Miah, directeur de la Creative Futures Institute &agrave; l&rsquo;Universit&eacute; du West of Scotland.La question suivante &eacute;tait pos&eacute;e aux participants: &ldquo;Vous &ecirc;tes-vous jamais demand&eacute; ce qui arriverait si vous deveniez champion du monde junior?&rdquo;Miah a d&eacute;fini pour les jeunes athl&egrave;tes des lignes de conduite &agrave; suivre concernant les m&eacute;dias sociaux, tels que Twitter et Facebook, afin de leur permettre de maximiser leur profil, et de se projeter, ainsi que l&rsquo;athl&eacute;tisme, de mani&egrave;re positive, tout en &eacute;vitant les pi&egrave;ges principaux. Hayes et Boldon, qui ont tous deux connu des carri&egrave;res d&rsquo;athl&egrave;tes du plus haut niveau, avec notamment des podiums olympiques &agrave; leurs palmar&egrave;s, se sont ensuite exprim&eacute;s sur les diff&eacute;rentes mani&egrave;res de g&eacute;rer la presse, tant apr&egrave;s une d&eacute;faite qu&rsquo;apr&egrave;s une victoire. Il &eacute;tait &eacute;vident que l&rsquo;ensemble des participants, avec des repr&eacute;sentants de 20 F&eacute;d&eacute;rations membres de l&rsquo;IAAF pr&eacute;sents, ont quitt&eacute; les s&eacute;ances pleins d&rsquo;&eacute;nergie et avec &eacute;norm&eacute;ment d&rsquo;id&eacute;es nouvelles &agrave; prendre en compte. "Cette formation m&eacute;diatique de l&rsquo;IAAF nous a &eacute;t&eacute; tr&egrave;s utile, en nous expliquant notamment comment g&eacute;rer au mieux notre comportement sur les m&eacute;dias sociaux. Cela m&rsquo;a aussi aid&eacute; &agrave; me sentir plus &agrave; l&rsquo;aise lors d&rsquo;entretiens avec la presse,&rdquo; a expliqu&eacute; le sprinteur am&eacute;ricain Kendal Williams, m&eacute;daill&eacute; d&rsquo;or du 100m masculin aux Championnats du monde Juniors de l&rsquo;IAAF, Oregon 2014."Je crois que ce que j&rsquo;en retiendrai surtout est que ce que l&rsquo;on poste sur les m&eacute;dias sociaux ne pourra jamais &ecirc;tre retir&eacute;, et cela me fera d&eacute;sormais r&eacute;fl&eacute;chir davantage avant de ne m&rsquo;exprimer ou ne publier quelque chose sur mes comptes," a ajout&eacute; sa compatriote, Desiree Freier, m&eacute;daill&eacute;e d&rsquo;argent du saut &agrave; la perche f&eacute;minin. Ce qui est certain, est que tous les participants ont quitt&eacute; les s&eacute;ances ravis de ce qu&rsquo;ils en avaient retir&eacute;. Phil Minshull, pour l&rsquo;IAAF

More than 100 competitors at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 took advantage of the IAAF media training workshop "Making the most of my athletics career" staged in Eugene over the last three days of the championships.

Young athletes take advantage of IAAF media training workshop

Vin Lananna, president of local organisers TrackTown USA, told reporters that the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 “exceeded expectations” after the final medal ceremonies were completed at Hayward Field.“When we made the presentation to the IAAF, we told them we would have an excited and enthusiastic crowd and a community which would embrace the athletes and provide them with the best experience possible,” he said. “Based on all the measures we have so far, this has been a grand success.”The total attendance over six days of competition was 51,532.“These athletes saw what could happen on a bigger stage when they go to a senior World Championships and there are 40,000 people in the stadium,” he added. “Oregonians, in particular our Hayward faithful here in Eugene, did a great job.“The in-stadium experience was certainly fantastic,” he added, “but when you went out of the stadium and walked around campus, you saw the athletes out, interacting, playing basketball and volleyball. We thought the village atmosphere was a big plus.“Every national anthem, every athlete on the podium, everyone who walked in here [to the mixed zone] with a smile on their face, that’s what I’m focusing on now. Maybe on Monday we’ll start looking on things we could do better.”Lananna pointed in particular at the 1062 volunteers who worked long hours to stage the championships.“This is a tough meet to run,” he said. “They did a great job and I’m proud of them. It’s a love for the sport. For many years this community has done its share to host great events,” he added, referring to the Prefontaine Classic and the many collegiate and high school meets run at Hayward Field.Lananna also looked forward to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where the TrackTown team will again play organisers. The meeting will be hosted in Portland, Oregon, 177km north of Eugene.“What I saw this week took away any concerns I might have had about the popularity of that meet,” said Lananna. “I think Oregonians will embrace that. It’s not just going to be a meet; it’s going to be a celebration of the sport, and Oregon is going to be front and centre in that celebration.”Parker Morse for the IAAF

Vin Lananna, president of local organisers TrackTown USA, told reporters that the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 “exceeded expectations” after the final medal ceremonies were completed at Hayward Field.

Expectations were exceeded, say organisers of IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014

Heir of a successful tradition in the triple jump, Lazaro Martinez left his mark on Hayward Field and won a much-awaited gold medal for Cuba on the final day of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 on Sunday (27). Martinez, who stands 1.92m tall, broke the triple jump championship record twice in the final, first with his opening 17.08m, four centimetres farther than his countryman Yoelbi Quesada’s mark set in 1992. He then improved it 17.13m in the following round. “I was aiming for six jumps and the world junior record (which is 17.50m and stood to the former East German Volker Mai since 1985), but I felt a minor discomfort in my right ankle on my second jump and passed two rounds to recover," said Martinez. "This is a win for all the team. I am very proud to bring the gold medal to Cuba after four silver medals in Eugene."Billed as the clear favourite after his world youth best of 17.24m earlier in the season, his 2014 best was almost a metre better than the next man on the list but Martinez still treated the competition like any other.“I came to this competition with the mindset that anyone could challenge me. I don’t take anything for granted.“I am honored to keep the (Cuban) tradition alive in the triple jump," he added. "We have a young generation of young jumpers who already shone internationally such as (world championships medallists Ernesto) Reve and Pedro Pablo Pichardo. I am humbled to have my name alongside great Cuban jumpers who preceded me."Martinez joined past Cuban male champions in this event: Yoelbi Quesada in 1992, Rene Hernandez in 1996, David Girat in 2002 and Pedro Pablo Pichardo in 2012. A native of Guantanamo, Cuba’s easternmost province, Martinez practised a variety of sports, including basketball and judo up to when he was 10. His mother, former 400m runner Isabel Contreras, encouraged him to take up athletics a year later and connected him to a friend and coach. “Initially I did not like athletics,” he said. “But I did a test with the coach and she told me I had the potential to enter the provincial sports school.”After an initial success on the track and especially in the jumps, he started to specialise in the jumps in 2010 under the watch of coach Manuel Guilarte. In his first season, he improved to 14.64m and then to 15.38m, a national age-14 best. He also cleared 1.97m in the high jump. Those results opened the doors to the national junior team.“Even if I had success in athletics, I did not like it much," he said. "It was coach Guilarte who instilled in me the love for the sport. To me, he is the best coach in the world."When he joined the national junior team in Havana, he started training under the guidance of coach Marcos Juvenal and continued to show rapid progress.&nbsp; A world youth leader with 16.53m heading into last year’s IAAF World Youth Championships, he lived up to the expectations in Donetsk by winning with a personal best of 16.63m. Hard work through the winter paid off again and in massive proportions early in 2014. In his season opener, he landed at 17.24m to become the first youth athlete ever to break the 17-metre mark. In the process, he joined 22 other Cubans in surpassing that barrier.A consistency around 16.80m-17.10m paved the way for his first IAAF Diamond League invitations in Shanghai, Rome and Oslo.And he did not disappoint. He finished second in the Chinese city and third in the Italian capital, only beaten by world and Olympic medallists Will Claye and Christian Taylor.“It is a privilege to compete with the world’s best," he said. "Imagine, I was watching them on TV in the Olympics and the World Championships in 2012 and 2013 and now competing with them. It is an incredible experience. I have nothing to lose and it inspires me to achieve better results."Martinez has become accustomed to receiving a lot of praise for his talent and potential. “I am aware of that, but I could not have achieved anything it if were not for my hard work in training. Triple jump is a very intensive event, it requires a lot of preparation to become a good jumper.”There is more to come before 2014 wraps up. He now has his eyes set on the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing next month and then back to Europe for more IAAF Diamond League outings.Outside the track, Lazaro is in all other respects an ordinary Cuban teenager. In his free time, he enjoys listening to Cuban reggaeton and US singers such as Usher and Beyonce. He finished high school with good marks and plans to take a program to become Physical Education teacher.Javier Clavelo Robinson for the IAAF

Heir of a successful tradition in the triple jump, Lazaro Martinez left his mark on Hayward Field and won a much-awaited gold medal for Cuba on the final day of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 on Sunday (27).

Martinez honoured to uphold a Cuban tradition in Eugene

Latvia’s Gatis Cakss won the men’s javelin with a last-round throw of 74.04m, his best ever.The leader from the second round had been Slovenia’s world youth champion Matija Muhar, whose 72.97m effort in that round looked like it would stand for the duration. Muhar, who has the two best junior marks of the year, was heavily favoured for the win, but settled for silver when he was unable to match Cakss’ distance with his last throw.Andrian Mardare of Moldova, who threw a lifetime best of 74.46m in qualifying on Friday, took bronze with a 72.81m throw in the first round, a mark which had him briefly in the lead until Muhar took over in the second round.Cakss’ mark moves him to fifth on the year’s junior performance list. It’s the shortest javelin throw to win the World Junior Championships since 1990, when Tommi Viskari won with 73.88m.Latvia had previously won five medals in the javelin at the World Junior Championships, but this was their first title in the men’s event.Parker Morse for the IAAF

Latvia’s Gatis Cakss won the men’s javelin with a last-round throw of 74.04m, his best ever.

Report: men’s javelin – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014

The United States ended a successful campaign at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 with a comfortable win in the 4x400m in 3:03.31, the fourth-fastest time in the history of the competition and the quickest since the world junior record-breaking 3:01.09 time posted by another US quartet in 2004.Japan finished strong and set an Asian junior record of 3:04.11 for silver, ahead of Jamaica, third with 3:04.67.Josephus Lyles put the US squad in the lead on the first leg. Tyler Brown was challenged by the Bahamian, Jamaican and Japanese teams, but managed to keep the US squad in front.Rick Morgan ran the third leg with Japan and Jamaica in close company, until Michael Cherry anchored their team with an impressive 45.04 run.Nobuya Kato, the 400m silver medallist, overtook Jamaica’s 400m hurdles champion Jaheel Hyde in the homestretch to secure the silver medal, Japan’s fifth 4x400m relay medal in the history of the championships and their best performance in the event since 1996.Jamaica returned to the podium for the first time since their silver in 2002.The relay victory provided some redemption to the host country, which was left out of the men’s individual 400m medals for the first time since 2000.For the first time ever at the World Junior Championships, the same three teams in both the men’s 4x100m and 4x400m filled the top three spots in the same order.Javier Clavelo Robinson for the IAAF

The United States ended a successful campaign at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 with a comfortable win in the 4x400m in 3:03.31, the fourth-fastest time in the history of the competition and the quickest since the world junior record-breaking 3:01.09 time posted by another US quartet in 2004.

Report: men’s 4x400m – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014

Championship records from US hurdler Kendell Williams and Cuban triple jumper Lazaro Martinez provided the highlights of the final day of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 on Sunday (27).<o:p></o:p>Williams overhauled her compatriot Dior Hall off the last barrier of a thrilling race to win the 100m hurdles in a championship record of 12.89, equalling the fifth-fastest junior time ever and just 0.05 away from the world junior record of 12.84, which has been on the books since 1987 in the name of Cuba’s Aliuska Lopez.<o:p></o:p>Hall had a superb start and led for nine of the 10 hurdles but had to settle for second, albeit in a PB of 12.92.<o:p></o:p>Martinez, amazingly still only 16 but already a seasoned veteran in some respects after three appearances in the IAAF Diamond League this summer, confirmed his pre-competition status as the favourite and reinforced his country’s excellence in the triple jump.<o:p></o:p>Martinez was on fire from his opening jump, landing at a championship record of 17.08m, four centimetres farther than his countryman Yoelbi Quesada’s mark set in 1992.<o:p></o:p>He sealed his victory with 17.13m, another championship record, in the following round.<o:p></o:p>After a foul with his next attempt and passes in the fourth and fifth rounds, he ended his series with a valedictory 16.39m.<o:p></o:p>Germany’s Max Hess finished second with a personal best of 16.55m in the second round but was more than half a metre behind the classy Cuban.<o:p>Lake now swimming in gold</o:p>Morgan Lake can also look back on a hugely successful championships. <o:p></o:p>The British 17-year-old won the heptathlon on Wednesday and achieved a unique double when she won the high jump on Sunday.<o:p></o:p>Like Martinez, she is still a youth by international delineations and so can return to the championships in two years’ time to defend her titles.<o:p></o:p>Four women attempted 1.91m but Lake cleared on her first attempt to move into pole position and the prodigious Czech jumper Michaela Hruba, even younger than Lake at 16, got her second personal best of the afternoon when she went over that height on her third attempt.<o:p></o:p>At 1.93m, Lake cleared at the second time of asking while Hruba failed. Lake – the only athlete to get two individual gold medals in Eugene – then had three attempts at what would have been a British senior record of 1.97m although, in truth, none of the attempts were particularly close.<o:p></o:p>The two middle-distance gold medals went to a pair of athletes who were prohibitive favourites.<o:p></o:p>After leading the field through 400m in a phenomenally fast 49.42, Kenya’s 17-year-old Alfred Kipketer showed the rest of the field a clean pair of heels over the second leg to win in a world junior leading 1:43.95, just 0.16 away from the championship best of 1:43.79 set by Botswana’s Nijel Amos in Barcelona two years ago. <o:p></o:p>Second was another Kenyan, Joshua Masikonde, in 1:45.14 and the first seven men home all registered personal best times.<o:p>Runaway win for Seyaum</o:p>Dawit Seyaum, the only junior this year to have run faster than four minutes, front-ran her way to gold in the women’s 1500m with equal authority.<o:p></o:p>She was in the lead at the 800m mark, passed in 2:17.13, and despite being occasionally challenged by her compatriot Gudaf Tsegay over the last two laps, Seyaum never looked seriously threatened and won in 4:09.86.<o:p></o:p>Tsegay was just under a second behind in 4:10.83 and took the silver medal.<o:p></o:p>However, not every event went according to form on Sunday.<o:p></o:p>Barnabas Kipyego turned the tables on his more highly rated compatriot Titus Kibiego, the Kenyan trials winner, in the men’s 3000m steeplechase and sprinted away from his team-mate down the home straight to win in 8:25.57 with Kibiego second in 8:26.15.<o:p></o:p>Latvian javelin thrower Gatis Cakss caused the biggest surprise of the final day.<o:p></o:p>Lying down in fifth place, and ranked only eighth in the world ahead of the final, Cakss hurled his last attempt out to 74.04m to move into pole position and none of the four men left to throw could respond, including Slovenia’s Matija Muhar, the 2014 world junior leader with 75.38m.<o:p></o:p>Muhar had to settle for second with 72.97m, which he threw in the second round, and fouled the very last throw of the competition in his last-gasp bid to retain the lead.USA relay doubleAs is traditional at major international championships, the curtain came down with the 4x400m relays.<o:p></o:p>For the seventh consecutive championships, the US women won their event coming home in a 2014 world junior-leading time of 3:30.42.Shamier Little, the 400m hurdles champion, took the first leg and got to the exchange first. Olivia Baker on the second leg got to the break in front and barring accidents, that was almost the end of the show.<o:p></o:p>However, there were no stumbles or dropped batons to open the door to any of the US quartet's rivals. <o:p></o:p>Shakima Wimbley and individual 400m champion Kendall Baisden combined to come home comfortably ahead of silver medallists Great Britain.<o:p></o:p>The US men won the very last of the 44 gold medals on offer across the six days in a similar commanding fashion in 3:03.31.<o:p></o:p>Josephus Lyles put the US squad in front on the first leg and the men that followed – Tyler Brown, Rick Morgan and Michael Cherry – didn’t relinquish that lead.<o:p></o:p>After six days of the championships, the host nation was a clear leader in the medal tables with 11 gold medals, five silver and five bronze for a total of 21 medals. It was the most medals they had ever won and just one shy of the best ever medal haul at the World Junior Championships, 22 from the USSR in 1988.<o:p></o:p>Distance running powerhouse Kenya finished second with four gold medals and 16 medals in total.<o:p></o:p>Overall 21 different national anthems were heard in Hayward Field since the start of the championships and 40 IAAF member federations had athletes stand on the medal podium.<o:p></o:p>Phil Minshull for the IAAF &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>

Championship records from US hurdler Kendell Williams and Cuban triple jumper Lazaro Martinez provided the highlights of the final day of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 on Sunday (27).

Day six report:  Williams and Martinez set championship records – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014

The women of the USA won the 4x400m relay for the seventh
consecutive World Junior Championships with a clocking of 3:30.42.Shamier Little, the 400m hurdles champion, took the first
leg and got to the handoff first. Olivia Baker on the second leg got to the
break first, and that was mostly the end of the show.The third leg, Shakima Wimbley, got the baton comfortably
into the hands of 400m champion Kendall Baisden. Baisden ran well within
herself, and was easily able to hold off a challenge from Great Britain anchor
Cheriece Hylton to seal the victory.Great Britain took silver, Hylton joined by Shona Richards,
Loren Bleaken, and Sabrina Bakare, to set up a 3:32.00, the second-fastest
British junior performance ever.Bronze went to Germany’s Laura Muller, Hannah Mergenthaler,
Laura Glasner, and Ann-Kathrin Kopf, who battled most of the way with Great
Britain to finish in 3:33.02.Parker Morse for the
IAAF

The women of the USA won the 4x400m relay for the seventh consecutive World Junior Championships with a clocking of 3:30.42.

Report: women’s 4x400m – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014

Great Britain’s Morgan Lake made good on her second shot at
world junior gold, clearing 1.93m to secure the victory and a second title four
days after her heptathlon triumph on Wednesday.Of the four women who attempted 1.91m, Lake and the Czech
Republic’s Michaela Hruba were the only ones to clear it, Lake on her first
attempt and Hruba on her third. It was a Czech junior record for 16-year-old Hruba.Lake, whose heptathlon high jump clearance was 1.94m, went
on to make three attempts at 1.97m, which would have been a national senior
record had she achieved it.Bronze went to Russia’s Irina Ilieva at 1.88m. Rachel McCoy
of the USA also cleared 1.88m but had one more miss at 1.85m, so she finished
fourth behind Ilieva.While Lake was the first and only double gold medallist in
individual events, long jump winner Akela Jones of Barbados was also entered,
but opted not to jump at the last minute.Parker Morse for the
IAAF

Great Britain’s Morgan Lake made good on her second shot at world junior gold, clearing 1.93m to secure the victory and a second title four days after her heptathlon triumph on Wednesday.

Report: women’s high jump – IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014

Lazaro Martinez confirmed his pre-competition status as the favourite and extended his country’s successful tradition in the triple jump by taking Cuba’s first gold medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 with a championship record of 17.13m.A world junior leader by almost a metre heading into Eugene, Martinez was on fire from his opening jump, landing at a championship record of 17.08m, four centimetres longer than his countryman Yoelbi Quesada’s mark set in 1992.He sealed his victory with 17.13m, another championship record, in the following round. After a foul with his next attempt and passes in the fourth and fifth rounds, he ended his series with 16.39m.Germany’s Max Hess finished second with a personal best of 16.55m in the second round while Brazil’s Mateus de Sa entered the mix for the medals and finished third with a national junior record of 16.47m, also in in the second round. Another Cuban, Andy Diaz, had a wind-assisted 16.43m on his final attempt but it was not enough to reach the podium.Martinez, the world youth champion, doesn’t turn 17 until later in the year so he stands a chance to become the first male triple jumper to win back-to-back world junior titles in Kazan 2016. His compatriot Dailenys Alcantara accomplished that feat in 2008 and 2010. Martinez joined past Cuban male champions in this event: Yoelbi Quesada in 1992, Rene Hernandez in 1996, David Girat in 2002 and Pedro Pablo Pichardo in 2012. A third of the island’s 24 world junior titles have been won in the triple jump.Javier Clavelo Robinson for IAAF

Lazaro Martinez confirmed his pre-competition status as the favourite and extended his country’s successful tradition in the triple jump by taking Cuba’s first gold medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 with a championship record of 17.13m.

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