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Podcast 75: MICHELLE PERRY on her 2nd consecutive 100m hurdles World Championship
Posted September 3rd, 2007 at 6:24 PM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts
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Welcome to Episode 75 of The Final Sprint Podcast featuring my interview with American hurdler MICHELLE PERRY who successfully defended her 100m hurdles title and added to Team USA’s historic gold and overall medal count at the now concluded IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan
In the interview Michelle talks about surging for the lead in the last 10m and how it felt waiting for the official results of the extremely close race.
Download the podcast to hear Michelle discuss these topics, as well as, her advice for less experience runners, the keys to her consistency and dominance, how she stays busy and calm in the days before a race and what her second consecutive 100m hurdle World Championship means for her quest for Olympic gold.
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Host: Adam Jacobs | Guest: Michelle Perry
Producer: Greg Cherniet
Musicians: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File Size: 9.46 MB | Length: 9:14 MIN
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Video: Recap of the 2007 IAAF Outdoor Track & Field World Championships in Osaka
Posted September 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 PM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
The below video includes a collection of key moments from the 2007 IAAF Track & Field World Championships from Osaka, Japan. Featuring winning performances by: Luke Kibet, Reese Hoffa, Tirunesh Dibaba, Jefferson Perez, Valerie Vili, Tyson Gay, Ivan Tsikhan, Yekaterina Volkova, Nelson Evora, Kenenisa Bekele, Team USA, Meseret Defar, Veronica Campbell, Bernard Lagat, Jeremy Wariner, Brad Walker, Allyson Felix, Liu Xiang, Michelle Perry, Catherine Ndereba, and many more!
Team USA Superlatives:
2007 IAAF World Outdoor T&F Champs
Posted September 3rd, 2007 at 11:53 AM by Martha Jones
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Notable accomplishments by Team USA athlete at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Osaka:
- 1st medal in women’s 10,000m
- 1st gold medal in men’s pole vault
- 1st gold medal in men’s 1,500m
- 1st medal of any kind in men’s 5,000m
- Bernard Lagat is first man to win 1,500-5,000 double at World Championships
- 1st time three Americans in men’s 5,000m final
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Lagat’s Second Gold Medal Caps World Championships
Posted September 2nd, 2007 at 4:33 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
While critics said he had bitten off more than he could chew, Bernard Lagat swallowed up the field of the men’s 5000m final here tonight, becoming the first man to win both the 1500m and 5000m at an IAAF World Championships in Athletics. He also became the first American to win a 5000m world title.
It mattered not his winning time of 13:45.87 was the slowest in the history of these championships. In fact, it was the painfully slow early pace which set the stage for Lagat to use his unmatched closing speed to clinch the title over Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, the 2003 world champion. In a memorable sprint to the finish, Lagat just edged his former compatriot by 13/100ths of a second, running about 52 seconds for the final lap.
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Video: Lagat pulls off rare double gold
Posted September 2nd, 2007 at 2:09 PM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
Watch the video below to see Bernard Lagat storm through the final stretch of today’s men’s 5,000m final with his patented late-race kick to earn his second gold medal at the 2007 IAAF World Championships.
Lagat, who also won a gold in the 1,500m, became the first American in history to earn a gold medal double in the 1500m and 5000m at either a World Championship or Olympic Games.
Team USA ties gold medal record; Lagat and Felix make history
Posted September 2nd, 2007 at 10:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
It was a night of firsts, and one of history, for Team USA Sunday night in the final session of competition at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
With victories in the men’s and women’s 4×400m relays, the United States became the first country to sweep all four relays at a World Outdoor Championships.
Bernard Lagat became the first man to win the 1,500/5,000m double at Worlds, and the first American ever to medal in the 5,000.
Allyson Felix became the second woman in history to win three gold medals at a single World Championships, as the relay team of Dee Dee Trotter, Felix, Mary Wineberg and Sanya Richards ran the fastest time in 14 years.
The men’s 4×400m relay of LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, Darold Williamson and Jeremy Wariner ran the third-fastest time in history.
Breaux Greer became the first American since the inaugural World Championships in 1983 to win a medal in the men’s javelin.
At the close of competition, Team USA tied the all-time World Championships record for gold medals with 14, matching its feat from 2005, and tied the American all-time medal tally at a World Outdoor Championships with 26. Team USA led a medal table in which a record 46 countries won medals; Kenya had five gold and 13 overall, and Russia had four gold and 16 overall. The other occasion on which the United States won 26 medals, in 1991, just 29 countries were on the medal table.
Not a bad night.
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Japanese Medal Hopes Riding With Women Marathoners
Posted September 1st, 2007 at 4:00 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
Tomorrow morning’s women’s marathon will be the last opportunity for the Japanese team to win a medal at these 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics which draw to their conclusion tomorrow night. It was in Gothenburg in 1995 when the Japanese were last shut out of the medals, and in only two world championships have the home team not put at least one athlete on the medal stand: the Swedes in Gothenburg in 1995 and the Canadians in Edmonton in 2001.
No team has been more successful in the history of the IAAF World Championships women’s marathon than the Japanese. Of the 30 medals which have been distributed in the ten previous editions, Japan has won eight, double their nearest rival, Romania. In addition, they have won four of the last five World Cup team competitions which were first integrated with the World Championships in Athens in 1997. In Helsinki in 2005, the Japanese lost the Cup to the Kenyans by four minutes and are anxious to take it back.
Leading the Japanese will be veteran Reiko Tosa (pictured), the 31 year-old silver medalist from Edmonton in 2001 who boasts a 2:22:46 personal best. Tosa prepared for these championships in Kunming, China, according to a report in the DAILY YOMIURI newspaper.
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Competition concludes with relays, marathon, 5 km and field events
Posted September 1st, 2007 at 2:38 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
Several more medal opportunities present themselves to Team USA during Sunday competition at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Nagai Stadium.
After winning both 4×100m relays on Saturday night, the American 4×400m relays take the track for the last events of the Championships on Sunday, trying to become the first country to win all four relays at a World Outdoor Championships. The Americans will be favored in both races, particularly the men’s, following the Jeremy Wariner-led American sweep of the 400 on Friday.
In the field, 2007 world leader and American record holder Breaux Greer (Scottsdale, Ariz.) [Pictured]has medal potential in the men’s javelin final, while three-time Olympian Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.) competes in the women’s high jump final.
For the first time, three Americans will compete in the men’s 5,000 meter final, led by 1,500m gold medalist Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Ariz.). Adam Goucher (Portland, Ore.) and American record holder at 2 miles, Matt Tegenkamp (Madison, Wis.) also are looking for medals.
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Plodding Pace Helps Defar to 5000m Gold
Posted September 1st, 2007 at 1:00 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
Meseret Defar, the reigning Olympic gold medalist and world record holder at 5000m, claimed her first outdoor world title on the pentultimate day of the 11th IAAF World Championships at Nagai Stadium.
Helped by a plodding pace set by fan favorite Kayoko Fukushi, who was doubling back from the 10,000m, Defar did little but wait for 11 of the 12 and one-half laps. In the early going, she simply trailed a step behind Fukushi who was turning gentle 74 and 75 second laps. It wasn’t until the 11th lap that Vivian Cheruiyot tried to jump start the race with a sub-72 circuit. At the bell, Defar applied the pressure, but held her big sprint for the end.
“In the last 400 meters I increased the length of my stride,” said Defar after the race as if teaching a class. “And in the last 200 meters I used my sprint to win.”
Elementary, my dear Watson! Her 58.6 second final lap gave her a more than adequate cushion at the finish, grabbing the gold medal in 14:57.91, Ethiopia’s third of these championships.
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USA sweeps 4×100 relays, Walker takes first U.S. gold in pole vault
Posted September 1st, 2007 at 12:10 PM by Martin Kennedy
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage
Team USA swept the men’s and women’s 4×100m relays for the first time in 20 years, and Brad Walker won Team USA’s first-ever men’s pole vault gold Saturday night at the 2007 IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Nagai Stadium.
With one day of competition and six final events remaining, Team USA remains atop the medal tables with 22 medals, including 11 gold.
The men’s 4×100m victory made Tyson Gay the third man in World Championships history to win three gold medals at a single championship, but that feat was by no means assured heading into the relay.
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