{"id":309,"date":"2010-04-18T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2010-04-18T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:01:00","slug":"track-heating-up-heading-into-penn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Track Heating Up Heading into Penn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Smith started things with his 44.81 WL in Florida, but several athletes put up world leaders and outstanding marks yesterday as the season began to hit it\u2019s traditional stride heading into Penn Relays weekend!<\/p>\n<p>As I thought it might, the Kansas Relays produced a world leader in the 100 and the year\u2019s first sub10. It wasn\u2019t by previous world leader Churandy Martina however as the Kansas 100 went to Ivory Williams (US) in a near PR 9.95. Williams had an outstanding indoor season and seems to be continuing the pace outdoors. Also sprinting well in Kansas was super vet Veronica Campbell Brown who scorched the track for a 22.32 200 meter victory and world leader. <\/p>\n<p>On the west coast the 400 was the hot event as two one lap leads were set in Mt SAC. In the women\u2019s 400 long hurdler Lashinda Demus (US) went 51.40 with barriers to climb to the top of the world list, while Jeshua Anderson (US) went 49.11 over hurdlers to climb to the top of the 400 hurdles list. Mt SAC also saw world leaders in the women\u2019s 5000 and men\u2019s hammer throw as Sally Kipyego (KEN) ran 15:02.83 and Libor Charfreitag (SLO) threw 80.59m (264\u2019 5\u201d). <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Australia Fabrice Lapierre (AUS) let loose a windy (3.1 mps) jump of 8.78m (28\u2019 9.75\u201d)! Though windy it still makes him the 6th best performer under any conditions behind Mike Powell (8.95m, 29\u2019 4.5\u201d), Bob Beamon (8.90m, 29\u2019 2.5\u201d), Carl Lewis (8.87m, 29\u2019 1.25\u201d), Robert Emmiyan (8.86m, 29\u2019 1\u201d) and Ivan Pedroso (8.79mw, 28\u2019 10.25w). Pretty solid company! Lapierre began to emerge last year with legal 8.35m (27\u2019 4.75\u201d) and windy 8.57m (28\u2019 1.5\u201d) jumps and appears to be continuing his improvement. He could be heading towards being the new face of the long jump and a threat to 8.84m (29\u2019 0\u201d)! he definitely bears watching.<\/p>\n<p>As does Tyson Gay after yesterday\u2019s stellar 400. If you want to see what I mean, take a look below!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">if ((navigator.userAgent.match(\/iPhone\/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(\/iPod\/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(\/iPad\/i))) {$(\"#display_video\").html('<video src=\"http:\/\/d18tka3ecu2l5z.cloudfront.net\/1040140_00020_1271608025135.mp4\" controls preload autoplay width=\"480\" height=\"310\"><\/video>');}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flotrack.org\">Track and Field Videos on Flotrack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Smith started things with his 44.81 WL in Florida, but several athletes put up world leaders and outstanding marks yesterday as the season began to hit it\u2019s traditional stride heading into Penn Relays weekend! As I thought it might, the Kansas Relays produced a world leader in the 100 and the year\u2019s first sub10. It wasn\u2019t by previous world leader Churandy Martina however as the Kansas 100 went to Ivory Williams (US) in a near PR 9.95. Williams had an outstanding indoor season and seems to be continuing the pace outdoors. Also sprinting well in Kansas was super vet Veronica Campbell Brown who scorched the track for a 22.32 200 meter victory and world leader. On the west coast the 400 was the hot event as two one lap leads were set in Mt SAC. In the women\u2019s 400 long hurdler Lashinda Demus (US) went 51.40 with barriers to climb to the top of the world list, while Jeshua Anderson (US) went 49.11 over hurdlers to climb to the top of the 400 hurdles list. Mt SAC also saw world leaders in the women\u2019s 5000 and men\u2019s hammer throw as Sally Kipyego (KEN) ran 15:02.83 and Libor Charfreitag (SLO) threw 80.59m (264\u2019 5\u201d). Meanwhile in Australia Fabrice Lapierre (AUS) let loose a windy (3.1 mps) jump of 8.78m (28\u2019 9.75\u201d)! Though windy it still makes him the 6th best performer under any conditions behind Mike Powell (8.95m, 29\u2019 4.5\u201d), Bob Beamon (8.90m, 29\u2019 2.5\u201d), Carl Lewis (8.87m, 29\u2019 1.25\u201d), Robert Emmiyan (8.86m, 29\u2019 1\u201d) and Ivan Pedroso (8.79mw, 28\u2019 10.25w). Pretty solid company! Lapierre began to emerge last year with legal 8.35m (27\u2019 4.75\u201d) and windy 8.57m (28\u2019 1.5\u201d) jumps and appears to be continuing his improvement. He could be heading towards being the new face of the long jump and a threat to 8.84m (29\u2019 0\u201d)! he definitely bears watching. As does Tyson Gay after yesterday\u2019s stellar 400. If you want to see what I mean, take a look below! &nbsp; Track and Field Videos on Flotrack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3DCY-4Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":140,"url":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=140","url_meta":{"origin":309,"position":0},"title":"Early Weekend News","author":"CHill","date":"April 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Relay running takes center stage at Drake and Penn, but distance runners made some noise on Friday at a couple of meets here on the West Coast. 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