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2011 Payton Jordan on deck down on the Farm Sunday May 1st all day Records fall at the 2010 Payton Jordan track meet It was a night to behold. A packed house got to watch Chris Solinsky shatter the American record in the 10,000 meters with a time of 26:59.61 at Stanford's Cobb Track and Angell Field.
Solinsky was not the only story a the Payton Jordan. San Francisco's own Shannon Rowbury out kicked American record holder Shalane Flanagan over the last 300 meters to win the 5,000 meters in a world leading 15:00.51. Flanagan jumped out to a big lead before Rowbury began to make her move midway through the 12 lap race. Jenny Barrington finished strong to with the 1,500 meters in a world leading 4:08.11. Stanford grad Lindsay Allen ran the third fastest 3,000 meter steeplechase by an American this year, winning in 10:02.66. Stanford's Amaechi Morton broke his own school record in the 400 meter hurdles, winning in 50.03. Complete meet results click here Laney makes another push for JC State title It took them a year or two longer then they might have liked, but a year after finishing second in the California JC Women's track and field championships the Laney Eagles are bring home the first place trophy
Laney won by amassing 81pts to out pace second place Sacramento JC who had 61pts.Laney swept first and second in the 100 and 200m dashes. Lauryn Newson won the 100m with Shanae Roach placing second.The order was reversed in the 200m with Roach coming in ahead of Newsom. The margin of victory would have been even greater if Laney's nationally ranked and state leading 4x100m relay team did not drop the stick and bow out of the state championships in last weeks NorCal championships. 2009 JC State Track meet photo's Defending Decathlon champ Brian Clay out of 2009 USA Championships Clay, who set the U.S. Olympic Trials and Hayward Field record of 8,832 points with his win here last year, developed a sore left hamstring during a practice session on Tuesday while jogging on the long jump runway. "I hurt my leg a little less than 48 hours ago," said Clay. "I had two little pops in my (left) hamstring. It didn't feel like anything too serious. I got back on the runway and tried to do another stride and I realized it was a little worse than I thought. We've been doing as much as we can the last two days. I've been in hyperbaric chambers, I've been getting acupuncture, massage, I've been taking ibuprofen, and doing everything we could do to get my leg felling better, but it's still feeling pretty bad." Although Clay will not be eligible to compete at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships this summer in Berlin, Germany, he has his sights set on other goals. "We have our ultimate goal of coming out in the next three years and going after the world indoor record, the world outdoor record, and then of course, making another Olympic team. My goal is to be the only American to ever win three (decathlon) medals at three Olympics, so we're starting to look forward at this point." The first U.S. Olympic decathlon champ since Dan O'Brien in 1996, Clay amassed 8,791 points in capturing the Olympic gold medal. His winning margin was a whopping 240 points over his nearest competitor, which is the largest winning margin at an Olympic Games since 1972.
Ashton shakes off false start in the 100m dash, sets pr in the deuce She has been waiting for this moment all season. After tearing through all comers this year her time was finally here.
The CIF State track and field meet was going to be her little play ground. 2009 was going to be the year she shows who is boss in California high school sprints. Then it happened. On your mark, get set....., false start. Ashton Purvis, fastest in cali, and second in the nation jumped out of the blocks a hair early and she was out of the 100m dash. Purvis still had the 200m dash and she made the most of it, lighting up the track with a 23.51 to qualify for SatUrday's final with the fastest time at state. Ashton ran away with the 200m dash to win her second state title and first over 200 meters. De La Salle's Chase Wheeler was also able to bring home a state title. Chase won the long jumper with a leap of 25 feet, 2 1/4 inches. It was the second best jump of the year in the nation and it came after second place finisher Gahr-Cerritos' Aaron Bradley's leap of 25-0 1/2 took the lead late in the competition. If Wheeler did not have enough on his mind, the finals of the 4x100 meter relay was just minutes away. After popping off his winning jump, Chase ran over to his third leg of the relay, changed shoes and picked up the number left on the ground by his teammate Ken Egu. De La Salle would finish third in race with a season best time of 40.85. James Logan's Ciarra Brewer topped the entire nation with her winning triple jump of 42-11 1/2. She edged out Moreau Catholic-Hayward's Alitta Boyd who leaped (42-4 1/4) to grab the first of her two second place finishes at the 2009 CIF State meet. Boyd jumped 20'2" in the long jump. Pinewood-Los Altos Hills junior Angela Gradiska, who finished second in 23.85 surprised many by adding a fourth place in the 100 (11.74). George Atkinson III of Granada-Livermore finished third in the boys 100 meters (10.66) and fourth in the 200 (21.46). "I was a little more nervous Friday night, in the prelims. Once you can make it to the finals you can relax and just run" said a happy Atkinson lll after the meet. The team title's was crazy on the boy's side while it was business as usual for the girls of Long Beach Poly. Poly won their record 11th state team title while four teams Clovis East, Frontier, La Sierra and Cathedral all tied with 20pts each. La Sierra got their points from the 400m dash/300m hurdles double out of Reggie Wyatt and Cathedral got a share of the title due to Randall Carroll 100m dash (10.38), 200m dash (21.08) double wins. Frontier's Matt Darr was also twice as nice with a winning toss in the shot put (62'1.25") and heave in the discus (190'). Clovis East almost brought home a state title getting pts from Mike Peterson who finished second in the pole vault, clearing 15'11". Willy Irwin grabbed a second place in the discus (188'8") and a fourth in the shot put (58'7.5"). The Poly girls were simply dominate, scoring points in nine events with seven different athletes scoring points. Not one of the girls on Poly's team who scored at state is a senior. Complete 2009 State meet results click here
The Best is yet to come It is early in his track and field career, but George Atkinson lll let it be known that he is the fastest person in Northern California and he is just a sophomore.
Atkinson pulled off an impressive double Saturday's Meet of Champions at Cal-Berkeley's Edwards Stadium. George, from Granada High, held off De La Salle's Ken Egu, winning the 100m dash in 10.70 to Egu's 10.87. Atkinson and Egu came through one, two in the 200m dash as well. This time George won in 21.92 and Egu in 22.11. George trails only one Northern Cali sprinter, San Mateo's Kendall Spencer who won the Central Coast 100m dash title with a 10.68 at Gilroy High Friday. The state leader is also the national leader. Randall Carroll (Cathedral), who has run 10.30 this year. Carroll won the Southern Masters in 10.51 Saturday. Spencer had quite a meet himself in the CCS Championships. He added a 200m dash title (21.72) and a long jump title (23'5.5"). He became the first athlete to win all three in the same year in the 44-year history of the CCS Championships. Ashton Purvis showed she is ready for who ever comes out of the South. She ran a 11.48 to win the 100m dash before setting a Meet of Champions record in the 200m dash, winning in 23.60. That broke the mark set by Latasha Gilliam back in 1994 (23.62). Ashton has her sights on a 100, 200m dash double at state next week. She knows that one Jessica Davis will be waiting for her in the deuce. Last year Davis, a Jr. from Highland High nipped Purvis at the end of the 200m final. James Logan showed that even in a down year they cam still be the team to beat. The Colts girls team won their 7th NCS team title in a row and their 8th in 9 years. Janelle Prothro won the discus with a toss of 132' 4" and Donnise Powell added to the Colts points with a first place in the 300m hurdles (43.39). Bishop O'Dowd and Castro Valley know each other well. HAAL league rivals Chad Jones (O'Dowd) and Maurice Valentine staged a great race in the 110-m hurdles final. Jones came from behind to win in 14.14 to Valentine's 14.18. Amador Valley's boys team set a school record to win the 4x400 relay in 3:21.19. De La Salle's Chase Wheeler made the state finals in three events. He will only compete in two, the 4x100 relay and the long jump. He won both to go along with a four place finish in the 100m dash. Moreau Catholic's Alitta Boyd went one better and made it to state in four events. The USC bound senior will compete in the 100m dash, long jump, triple jump and 200m dash. Boyd is a favorite in both the long and triple jumps. Clayton Valley's Nathanael Litwiller showed he is ready for what might come at the state meet by winning the 800m in 1:53.15. That is the fourth fastest time in the state this year. Deer Valley's Chizoba Okodogbe has one of the fastest times in the state this year in the 400m dash. She won the race in 54.40. The state meet is June 5th and 6th at Buchanan High in Clovis, Ca just outside Fresno. Gay throws it down at Reebok Grand Prix NEW YORK CITY - Tyson Gay announced to the world that he is back, running the third-fastest 200 meters of all time and annihilating a world-class field Saturday at the 2009 Reebok Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium.
In his first race on American soil since his devastating injury in the 2008 Olympic Trials 200m, the 2007 World Outdoor 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold medalist was ready. When the gun went off, so did he. With a first 100 meters that rivaled world-record pace, Gay dominated the Western Union men's 200, blazing to the finish line in 19.58 seconds. Second place finisher Wallace Spearmon, Gay's former training partner, was four tenths of a second back in 19.98. Xavier Carter was third in 20.27. The performance in his first 200m of the season surprised even Gay, whose 2009 training has thus far included only strength work, rather than purely sprinting work. "It made me very, very happy," said Gay, who injured his hamstring at the Olympic Trials and wasn't fully fit at the Olympic Games. "19.5 had been one of the goals I had, but to do that in the first race is very pleasing. I wanted to work on my reaction and my start. Then I just ran. I ran for my life. When I came toward the finish line, I got kind of tight, and I wanted to bring it on in. I tried to push all the way through, just to see where my body is at." Gay now holds the third and fourth fastest times ever over 200m: Saturday's race and the 19.62 he ran to win the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships. Only USA Track & Field Hall of Famer Michael Johnson (19.32) and triple 2008 Olympic champion Usain Bolt (19.30) have run faster. In fact, Bolt's world-record performances in Beijing have provided motivation for Gay. "He's probably excited," Gay said when asked what he thought Bolt's reaction to his race might be. "He ran 14.3 for 150 so he is very fit. His 200 (at Beijing) was a shocker, and the way he won the 100 was shocking, but I wasn't shocked that he ran that fast." The race also proved a return of confidence for the unusually humble and introspective sprinter. "It was difficult," Gay said of returning from Beijing not having met his goals. "The biggest part was getting over the 4x100 relay. The other part was getting hurt when I was in the best shape of my life. I felt like a let my city down, my family down and my state down." As for Saturday's performance, "This race tells me I'm pretty fit." For his efforts, Gay was named Team USA Athlete of the Meet, presented by Visa. His performance was one of seven world leaders on the day at the fourth stop of the Outdoor Visa Championship Series Anything you can do I can do better The former American record holder in the 3,000m steeplechase, Anna Willard won the women's 800m in a world-leading 1:59.29. Running a conservative race for the first 700m, Willard kicked into high gear over the last 100 to overtake three-time Olympian Hazel Clark and 2008 Olympic finalist Kenia Sinclair of Jamaica. After making the Olympic Games final in the steeplechase and finishing ninth, Willard decided she needed a change and made the move to the Mammoth Track Club and Coach Terrence Mahon. Since the switch, Willard won the USA Indoor 1,500m title 4:17.37 and the BAA road mile in 4:38.6. Double Olympic silver medalist and two-time World Outdoor champion over 200m, Allyson Felix ran down Olympic silver medalist Shericka Williams (JAM) in the Nutrilite women's 400m to win in a world-leading 50.50 to Williams' 50.58. 2007 World Outdoor bronze medalist Novlene Williams-Mills took third in 51.11. Beijing silver medalist Jenn Stuczynski continued her domination of the women's pole vault on American soil, winning the event with a world-leading 4.81 meters/15 feet 9.25 inches. 2000 Olympic gold medalist Stacy Dragila was second with a clearance of 4.52m/14-10. Two-time World Outdoor 100m medalist Lauryn Williams posted a world leader in winning the women's 200m, crossing the line in 22.34. 2006 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion Shalonda Solomon was the runner-up in 22.43. The men's 5,000m saw an American all-comers record set as 2008 Olympic 10,000m bronze medalist Micah Kogo won the race in 13.02.90. 2007 double World Outdoor champion Bernard Lagat was the runner-up in 13:03.06. One of the biggest upsets of the day came in the NYRR women's 5,000m, when Kenya's Linet Masai handily dispatched world record-holder Tirunesh Dibaba, 14:35.39 to 14:40.93, to run another world leader Other winning athletes included 2008 USA Indoor champion Mike Rodgers winning the Visa men's 100m in a windy 9.94 (+3.1mps) and 2008 Olympic gold medalist LaShawn Merritt winning the Nutrilite men's 400m in 44.75. 2008 Olympic bronze medalists Tasha Danvers and Bershawn Jackson won their respective races as Danvers won the Irie Jam women's 400m hurdles in 55.19 and Jackson won the Reebok men's 400m hurdles in 48.52. 2008 Olympian Christin Wurth-Thomas won the Reebok women's 1,500m in a meet record, personal best 4:03.96. On the men's side, 2008 Olympian and NCAA champion Leo Manzano won the race in 3:34.14. Two-time Olympic silver medalist and Indoor Visa Champion Terrence Trammell continued on his winning ways, winning the men's 110m hurdles in 13.12, and Carmelita Jeter won the women's 100 in a wind-aided 10.85 (+2.8). For more information and complete results, visit www.VisaChampionshipSeries.com or www.usatf.org.
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NCAA D1 Track and Field Championships June 8th - 11th 2011 at the Drake University Des Monies, Iowa . Tickets click here NCAA D2 Track and Field Championships May 26th - 28th at Cal State Stanislaus, Turlock Ca Tickets click here NCAA D3 Track and Field Championships 2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field ChampionshipsJune 23-26, 2011 Hayward Field - Eugene, OR 2011 IAAF World Championships August 27th - Sept 3rd 2001 Daegu, Korea
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The Payton Jordan is fast becoming one of the best distance meets in the country. 
If his performance did nothing else, it reminded observers that there is more than one name in the world of men's sprinting. And that in 2007, the top name in men's sprinting was Tyson Gay.
