{"id":11229,"date":"2016-06-27T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T23:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2016-06-27T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T23:15:18","slug":"world-u20-leads-from-krah-and-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=11229","title":{"rendered":"World U20 leads from Krah and Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s world all-time top-10 list.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My form going over, my start, my finish, my quickness over the hurdles, just felt great,\u201d said Krah, who clocked his previous personal best of 13.32 five weeks ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a competitive race, Amere Lattin was second in 13.32, also a career best.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“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\u2019m happy to represent myself and stay consistent.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s world all-time top-10 list. “My form going over, my start, my finish, my quickness over the hurdles, just felt great,\u201d said Krah, who clocked his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14,1,7,89,9,10],"tags":[1191,1195,1190,1186,1193,1194,927,1189,1188,1196,1192,1187],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-health","category-most-commented","category-news","category-sports","category-track-field","category-us","category-world","tag-alexa-efraimson","tag-amere-lattin","tag-bria-matthews","tag-charles-brown-jr","tag-chris-nilsen","tag-deakin-volz","tag-international-track-and-field","tag-jamari-ward","tag-kate-murphy","tag-marcus-krah","tag-sammy-watson","tag-vincent-crisp","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}