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August 21, 2006
Jordan Vaden wins
100 meters while Team USA Finishes 2nd at Norwich
Union International Match
Courtesy of
USATF
USA's Jordan Vaden was an unexpected winner of the
men's 100m. Running into -1.5 meters per second
headwind, Vaden won in 10.39 seconds to upstage the
home favorites Mark Lewis-Francis and Dwain
Chambers. Lewis-Francis was second in 10.41 with
Chambers third, two hundredths behind. Allyson
Felix, Wallace Spearmon, Bernard Lagat and Brianna
Glenn also led Team USA to a runner-up finish on the
final day of the 2006 Norwich Union International
Match in Birmingham, England.
Russia won the team competition over the weekend
with 349 points, with Team USA finishing second with
312.5 points. Britain was third with 269 points with
China fourth with 158.5.
The 2005 World Outdoor champion in the women's
200 meters, Allyson Felix ran a seasonal best
through a swirling crosswind in winning in 22.19
seconds. Sanya Richards was the runner-up in 22.52
seconds. Also in 200m action, World Outdoor
Championships silver medalist Wallace Spearmon had
little trouble in picking up his fifth victory of
the season by winning his specialty in 20.30
seconds.
Two-time Olympic medalist and reigning USA
Outdoor 1,500m and 5,000m champion Bernard Lagat won
the men's 3,000 meters in 7 minutes, 50.49 seconds,
over Britain's Mo Farah by more than a second.
Brianna Glenn, a last minute replacement for
injured 2003 World Outdoor 100m champion Torri
Edwards, won the women's 100 meters in 11.34
seconds, finishing just ahead of Russia's Irina
Khabarova (11.41).
The U.S. dominated the men's 400m hurdles, as
2005 USA Outdoor champion Kerron Clement finished
just ahead of his U.S. teammate and reigning world
champion, Bershawn Jackson, in 48.64 seconds.
Jackson's runner-up time was 48.67 seconds. In the
women's 100m hurdles, two-time World Outdoor
Championships finalist Jenny Adams won easily in
12.94 seconds.
Other U.S. winners on the final day of
competition included 2006 USA Indoor and Outdoor
champion Khadevis Robinson in the men's 800m
(1:47.48), and 2006 World Indoor champion Brad
Walker won the men's pole vault with clearance of
5.61meters/18 feet, 4.75 inches.
On Saturday, 2004 World Indoor champion Christian
Cantwell continued his global domination this
outdoor season by defeating teammate Reese Hoffa in
the men's shot put. Cantwell won with a throw of
21.13 meters/69 feet, 4 inches, with Hoffa the
runner-up with a toss of 20.62m/67-8.
Jamel Ashley won the men's 400m in 45.55 seconds
over Russia's European Championships silver medalist
Vladimir Frolov, and Gabe Jennings was a tearful
winner of the famous Emsley Carr Mile in 4 minutes,
10.02 seconds, becoming the first American winner of
the race since National Track and Field Hall of
Famer Jim Ryun in 1967.
"It is a great honor," said Jennings to the IAAF
website. "I am very emotional at the moment but I'm
feeling fantastic."
For more information on the 2006 Norwich Union
International Match, including the complete results,
visit
www.iaaf.org. |
