Three Aggies set to compete in IAAF World Junior Championships
Jul 19, 2010 | Track and Field
July 19, 2010
MONCTON, Canada - Three Texas A&M athletes are set to take part in the IAAF World Junior Championships this week. Nearly 1,500 athletes will compete on the recently completed Mondo track facility on the University of Moncton campus.
Results of the meet will be available through www.iaaf.org.
Aggie frosh Donique' Flemings will compete in the 100 hurdles for the United States while a pair of incoming freshmen, Henrik Ingebrigtsen and Ashley Collier, will also be competing in the Championships. Ingebrigtsen represents Norway in the 1,500 meters while Collier is part of the relay pool for the United States 4 x 100.
Flemings claimed the U.S. Junior title in the 100 hurdles with a career best time of 13.33 seconds earlier this summer in Des Moines, Iowa. During the collegiate season Flemings also registered a career best of 58.10 seconds in the 400 hurdles.
On the A&M 4 x 400 relay Flemings ran the third leg in 53.07 as the Aggies placed second in the NCAA final with a school record of 3:28.57.
Flemings will have three races in the 100 hurdles, which includes the final. The first round race is Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. (CST). The semifinal is held on Wednesday at 6 p.m. with the final occurring on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
On the current world junior list for the 2010 season, Flemings ranks fourth in the world while U.S. teammate Evonne Britton of Penn State is fifth with a best of 13.37.
The current world leader at 13.26 is TCU's Larissa Matthews, who finished third at the U.S. Junior meet and didn't qualify for the U.S. team. Ranked second and third on the world junior list is a pair of German hurdlers who will be in Moncton, Miriam Hehl (13.31) and Jenna Pietsch (13.32). They placed first and second at the German Junior qualifying meet in early July.
Ingebrigtsen is currently seventh in the 1,500 on the 2010 world junior list. He recently set the national junior record in Norway with a time of 3:40.14 when he placed seventh during the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway.
It was the third time this season that he lowered the junior record, starting with an indoor mark of 3:44.01. Then in a race in late May he clocked 3:42.06. Also in May, Ingebrigtsen won a 3,000-meter race in Oslo with a time of 7:58.15, a personal best by 10 seconds.
Ingebrigtsen races in the first round of the 1,500 on Tuesday at 9 a.m. (CST) and the finals of that event will be held on Thursday, at 7:05 (CST).
Collier, who claimed a State 4A title in the 100 meters for Ft. Worth Dunbar in high school, placed fourth in the 100 and fifth in the 200 during the U.S. Junior Championships and was selected to the relay pool for the 4 x 100.
The United States has claimed gold in the 4 x 100 during the past three World Junior Championships and in the past two victories the relay crew has included a future Aggie - Gabby Mayo (2006) and Jeneba Tarmoh (2006 and 2008).
First round action in the 4 x 100 relay will take place on Friday, July 23, at 4:40 (CST) with the finals held on Saturday, July 24, at 2:30 (CST).
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