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Taylor takes triple jump gold at World Youth Champs
Posted July 14th, 2007 at 8:30 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
On the first warm day of the meet Saturday, conditions were tailor-made for Team USA’s Christian Taylor (Fayetteville, Ga.), as he shattered his previous personal best and won the triple jump with a final-attempt leap of 15.98 meters/52-5.25 on the fourth day of the 5th IAAF World Youth Championships.
Taylor, the long jump bronze medalist whose best coming into the meet was 15.22m/49-11.25, had a hip problem and was behind the board on his first three attempts, but managed to improve on each try. His fourth-round effort of 15.64m/51-3.75 put him into the lead for good, and with the gold assured he uncorked a massive final attempt to record the best jump by a youth in the world this year. Bryce Lamb (Chandler, Ariz.) was eighth at 14.99m/49-2.25.
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