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Pan Am Juniors - Dyestat -2013Published by
Pan American Junior Track and Field Championships
Aug 23 - Aug 25
Medellin, Colombia
Reference links
RunnerSpace page: http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=6596
APA page: http://www.americasathletics.org/
Team USA Roster: http://www.nationalscholastic.org/article/1433
Jim Spier's blog (NSAF): http://www.nationalscholastic.org/blog/article/1453
Sunday: The United States finished atop the medal table with 16 golds, 16 silvers and 7 bronzes. ... The notable achievement by an athlete concluding a high school season came in the women's javelin where Megan Glasmann got a huge PR (more than 8 feet) with 176-11 to win the gold medal. Glasmann's throw surpasses Haley Crouser for US#1 in 2013 and ranks No. 2 all-time behind Crouser's USR 181-2 from 2012. ... Californian Jade Miller earned silver in the 400 hurdles, running 57.54 in the semifinal and 58.12 in the finals. ... Bonnie Draxler of Wisconsin finished sixth in the pole vault. ... In the men's pole vault, Dylan Duvio got the silver medal with a clearance at 17-0.75 and Daven Murphree collected bronze with 16-1. The gold went to Shawn Barber, a college freshman representing Canada who holds the USR. He jumped 17-6.75. ... The U.S. relay teams swept with four gold medals. The women's 4x100 included prep Ana Holland and ran 43.97. The women's 4x400 had Kendall Baisden and ran 3:36.48. The men's 4x100 featured three preps -- Cameron Burrell, Riak Reese and Travon Bromell -- and ran 39.17. The men's 4x400, with Marcus Chambers, Alexis Robinson and Lamar Bruton. Saturday: P.M. update: Maggie Ewen threw 165-7 to finish in silver medal position in the women's discus. ... Tony Brown ran 13.47 in the final of the men's 110 hurdles and also earned silver. ... The big news in the decathlon is that Wolf Mahler withdrew after eight events. He was in fourth place with 6,135 points (20 off his USATF Jr nationals total through eight events). Fellow American Devon Williams (Georgia freshman and brother of Kendell Williams) also withdrew on the second day. ... Ana Holland finished fourth in the women's 200 with 23.61 (she also ran 23.61 in the semifinals). ... Sasha Wallace was fourth in the 100 hurdles, running a time of 13.72. ... Riak Reese also got fourth place, in the men's 200, running US#6 20.82 in the semi and 21.01 in the final. ... In the women's high jump the top five competitors all made clearances at 5-9, but no one went higher. Claire Kieffer-Wright was fourth and Rachel Proteau was fifth based on their misses at lower heights. ... In the women's heptathlon, Kendell Williams has 3,458 points for a commanding first-day lead (100H: 13.48), (HJ: 5-9.75), (SP: 34-5), (200: 24.84). Teammate Kendall Gusfatson has 3,091 points (100H: 14.68), (HJ: 5-6.25), (SP: 35-3.75), (200: 25.99). A.M. action: Kendell Williams got started in the heptathlon with a fine run of 13.48 in the 100 hurdles. ... Wolf Mahler began Day 2 in the decathlon with 14.16 in the 110 hurdles. ... In prelims, Tony Brown advanced in the 110 hurdles with a time of 13.54 and Ana Holland advanced in the 200 with 23.61. Friday: P.M. update: Trayvon Bromell took the bronze medal in the 100 meters with a time of 10.44 seconds, coming in behind Zharnel Hughes of Anguilla (10.31) and Andre DeGrase of Canada (10.36). ... Sasha Wallace placed fourth in the 100 hurdles final in 13.72 seconds, while teammate Alexis Perry took the gold with 13.56. ... Wolf Mahler concluded his first day in the decathlon with a 48.19 clocking in the 400 meters. He finished the day with 3,736 points. ... Marcus Chambers ran 46.75 seconds for fourth place in the 400 meters final. Teammate Juan Green was fifth in 47.08. ... Stamatia Scarvellis won the gold medal in the shot put with 50-8.75. ... Andre Jefferson jumped 26-0 feet (3.1w), a big effort that landed him silver. He was just three centimeters behind winner Higor Alves of Brazil. In early action from Colombia, Wolf Mahler got started in the men's decathlon with a 10.85 run in the 100 meters, 21-11.50 in the long jump and 38-6.75 in the shot put. ... Trayvon Bromell ran 10.45 into a slight headwind in the semifinals of the 100 meters to win his heat ... Kendall Baisden ran 53.33 to win her heat of the women's 400. ... Rudy Winkler had three 70-meter throws but finished with 235-6 for the silver medal in the hammer. He was overtaken in the final round by Diego Alan Del Real Galindo of Mexico, who cut loose with 239-5. ... Sasha Wallace ran 13.66 for second in her heat of the 100-meter hurdles to advance (only one athlete was eliminated in the round). ... Marcus Chambers ran 47.71 to safely advance to the finals of the 400 meters. Storyline: The Pan American Juniors is an every-other-year meet that brings together 19-and-under athletes from across the Americas and Carribean. The U.S. team is typically comprised of a mixture of high school athletes and college freshmen. The 2013 team features 12 high school boys completing their season (11 graduated seniors and one who will return to high school) and 14 girls (12 graduated seniors and two returning to high school). Colombia is the 12th different nation to hold the event, which got its start in Sudbury, Canada in 1980. Fun fact: The 2007 Pan Am meet in Sao Paulo, Brazil is the place where future world champion decathlete Ashton Eaton met wife-to-be and world silver medal heptathlete Brianne Theisen met. Eaton was coming out of his freshman year at the University of Oregon and Theisen, of Saskatchewan, Canada, was in the process of being recruited to Oregon. Fun fact No. 2: Brother and sister combination Devon and Kendell Williams represented the U.S. in the multi competitions in Medellin. Devon is completing his freshman year at Georgia and Kendell, who has been seemingly everywhere during her high school career (record-holder and champion) is headed to Georgia in the fall. Kendell concluded her historic HS career with a Junior Pan Am Games silver medal; Devon withdrew from the decathlon with a second-day injury.
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