Marcus Krah cruised to an impressive victory in the 110m hurdles, clocking 13.25, also the fastest in the world by a U20 athlete this season and just outside the event’s world all-time top-10 list.
“My form going over, my start, my finish, my quickness over the hurdles, just felt great,” said Krah, who clocked his previous personal best of 13.32 five weeks ago.
In a competitive race, Amere Lattin was second in 13.32, also a career best.
Chris Nilsen topped 5.50m on his third attempt to take the pole vault title over Deakin Volz, who cleared a personal best of 5.45m.
“One of the biggest things in pole vault is to stay consistent,” Nilsen said. “This is my sixth time over 18 feet (5.48m) in a meet, so I’m happy to represent myself and stay consistent.”
World youth champion Sammy Watson won a close 800m in a PB of 2:02.91 to finish just five hundredths ahead of Aaliyah Miller.
Alexa Efraimson produced a dominant display in the 1500m, the event in which she holds the North American U20 record. She won in 4:16.75 to finish more than a second ahead of her nearest rival.
In other action, Jamari Ward won the men’s long jump with a 7.84m personal best and Bria Matthews won the long jump at 6.49m, the best jump by a U20 athlete in the world this season.
Fiona O’Keefe won a close women’s 5000m over Anna Rohrer 15:56.84 to 15:57.92, personal bests for both, and Kate Murphy won the 3000m in 9:10.51.
On the men’s side, world youth champion Adrian Piperi won the shot put with 20.18m, his first time using the junior 6kg implement in competition. Vincent Crisp won the 800m in 1:46.97 and Charles Brown Jr took the triple jump with 16.35m.
