from AAI website – Jason Smyth and Paul Hession in top form
– US Collegiate results
– 2008 SPARTAN INVITATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY Jason Smyth and Paul Hession in top form – US Collegiate results
Paul Hession capped a wonderful season with a second place finish in the 200m at the IAAF World Athletics final in Stuttgart yesterday.
Drawn in lane eight he was behind as they entered the straight, but a storming run in the closing stages brougth him from fifth to second, just one hundredth of a second behind the winner. His time of 20.58 showed just how consistent he has been throughout the season.
Second place guaranteed him a prize of $20,000.
200 Metres – M Final
Wind: -0.1 m/s
1 Stéphane Buckland MRI 20.57 . 0.149
2 Paul Hession IRL 20.58 . 0.160
3 Brendan Christian ANT 20.61 . 0.153
4 Christopher Williams JAM 20.66 . 0.162
5 Rodney Martin USA 20.66 . 0.164
6 Brian Dzingai ZIM 20.88 . 0.185
7 Marlon Devonish GBR 21.02 . 0.151
8 Joel Brown USA 21.23 . 0.139
SMYTH QUALIFIES FOR 200M FINAL IN ANOTHER WORLD RECORD TIME
Ireland’s latest Paralympic champion; Jason Smyth who won gold in the T13 100m on Saturday, got his 200m campaign off to a flying start in the Bird’s Nest in Beijing when he took two hundredths of a second off his world record mark to win his heat in 21.81seconds.
Cuba’s Luis Manuel Galano was a close second to Smyth in 22.04sec, with Jonathan Ntutu of South Africa third in a time of 22.71sec. In the other heat Alexey Labzin of Russia ran a season’s best time of 21.86sec to win; a mere five hundredths of a time off Smyth’s mark. The other Cuban in the field Luis Felipe Gutierres ran second in 22.04sec with Vugar Mehdiyev from Azerbaijan third in a time of 22.19sec. The heats were an example in how tight this 200m field is with five of those who qualified for tomorrow night’s final within half a second of each other.
Afterwards Smyth’s coach Stephen Maguire said: “He was controlled out there he ran a strong bend and a good straight and everything went according to plan. Tomorrow will be a really close run race but we’re looking forward to it.”
200m Heat 1
WORLD RECORD 21.83 SMYTH Jason IRL Assen (NED) 4 SEP 2006
PARALYMPIC RECORD 22.37 JIMINEZ R DOM Atlanta (USA) 21 AUG 1996
Wind: -0.3 m/s
1 1640 SMYTH Jason T13 IRL 4 JUL 1987 2 0.189 21.81 Q WR
2 1371 GALANO Luis Manuel T13 CUB 21 AUG 1982 6 0.208 22.04 Q SB
3 1917 NTUTU Jonathan T13 RSA 4 FEB 1986 4 0.246 22.71 Q SB
US Collegiate Results
Coastal Carolina Invitational
Men’s 6,000 Meter Run
3 McCarthy, Jamie Coastal Carolina 19:15.62
2008 SPARTAN INVITATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY
East Lansing, Mich.
MEN 8,000m
1 Ciaran O’Lionaird SO Michigan 24:44