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Newton
Delivers Paris Trip
Rob
Newton finally delivere the performance he has theatened
in the last few weeks with two stunning pb's in the
space of little more than an hour. Having qualifed fastest
in the AAA final and been quickest in the first round
of the European u23 championships, before being disqualified
and finishing fifth in these respective championships,
the Mansfield athlete took almost 2/10th of a second
off his pb to move to fourth on the Uk all time list
with a 13.36 final victory following a 13.42 heat clocking.
Newton
was the undoubted star of the show as Loughborough staged
its and Britain's first ever European Athletics Promotion
meeting. The Ted Gey and Lloyd Cowan
athlete attained the A standard for the Paris World
Championships with both his runs and comprehensively
defeated a field including 13.35 American performer
Todd Matthews and Irish record holder Peter Coghlan,
whose 13.76 none the less was a big seasonal best. Mohammed
Silah Freckleton's ran 13.79 in the heats and then 13.80
for 4th place, both performances better than his pervious
best.
To
put in context the quality of Newton's performance,
the time ranks him equal 14th in the world in 2003 and
ranks him in British terms infront of Olympic finalist
Hugh Teape, Commonwealth Games medalist Dave Nelson
and World Indoor Medalist Nigel Walker.
On
a good day for sprint hurdling there were also pbs for
Kris Jones 14.22 and Midlands Champion Nick Gayle 14.87
in the men's event, whilst Julie Pratt twice clocked
13.39 her season's best , as Sarah Claxton just held
off American Christine Ohaeri and Belgian Myrian Tschomba
to win the final. Hannah Elwiss' 14.07 was also new
best time.
The
wind that assisted the sprint hurdlers was not so helpful
for the one lap hurdlers ealier in the day. That did
not stop there being an excellent battle between Anthony
Boruamato and Matt Douglas, with the Sale Harrier reversing
the result from the AAA's four days before [when they
both medalled behind Chris Rawlinson] to triumph in
50.04 as both Brits dominated a field comprised of sub
50 second runners.
The
women's race was aslo a strongly fought battle, with
Liz Fairs leading off the bend before being caught by
New Zealand record holder, Rebecca Wardell who triumphed
in the run in with 57.39 as the first three athletes
went below 58 seconds, with Katie Jones anmd Tracey
Duncan also below 59 in a high quality a race.
For
Fairs a sub 57 clocking would seem a strong possibility
if she can get the right races and she is clearly establishing
herself as Britian's number two in 2003, behind Natasha
Danvers.
Women's
400m Hurdles A |
1 |
Rebecca
Wardell [NZL] |
57.39 |
2 |
Liz Fairs |
57.56 |
3 |
Nadja Petersen
[SWE] |
57.92 |
4 |
Katie Jones |
58.42 |
5 |
Tracey
Duncan |
58.80 |
6 |
. |
. |
Women's
400m Hurdles B |
1 |
Michelle
Carey [IRE] |
60.03 |
2 |
Claire
Heafford |
61.29 |
3 |
Nele van
Dornick [BEL] |
62.07 |
4 |
Hannah
Stares |
65.97 |
|
5 |
. |
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6 |
. |
. |
Women's
400m Hurdles C |
1 |
Louise
Alwin |
61.97 |
2 |
Claire
Brason |
62.65 |
3 |
Shona McPhereson |
64.06 |
4 |
Laura Demario
[BEL] |
71.53 |
| 5 |
. |
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| 6 |
. |
. |
Women's
100m Hurdles A Final |
1 |
Sarah
Claxton |
13.30 |
2 |
Christine
Ohaeri [USA] |
13.34 |
3 |
Mryiam
Tshomba [BEL] |
13.39 |
4 |
Julie Pratt |
13.39 |
5 |
Hannah
Elwiss |
14.07 |
6 |
Nicola
Robinson |
14.28 |
7 |
Jeni Malloy |
14.46 |
8 |
. |
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wind |
0.5 |
Women's
100m Hurdles B Final |
1 |
Gemma
Bennett |
14.59 |
2 |
Sarah Adams |
14.64 |
3 |
Katey Read |
14.87 |
4 |
Claire
Pearson |
14.94 |
5 |
Alison
English |
15.03 |
6 |
. |
. |
7 |
. |
. |
8 |
. |
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wind |
0.0 |
Men's
400m Hurdles A |
1 |
Anthony
Borsumato |
50.04 |
2 |
Matt Douglas |
50.18 |
3 |
Hennie
Botha [RSA] |
51.11 |
4 |
Nick O'Brien
[NZL] |
52.12 |
5 |
Cleverson
Olivera [BRA] |
52.31 |
6 |
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Men's
400m Hurdles B |
1 |
Greg
Little [JAM] |
51.60 |
2 |
Jeff Christie |
51.75 |
3 |
Rob Lewis |
51.97 |
4 |
Monte Raymond
[CAN] |
53.11 |
5 |
. |
. |
6 |
. |
. |
Men's
400m Hurdles C |
|
1 |
Joe
Lloyd |
53.19 |
2 |
Henrik
Vincentsen [DEN] |
54.93 |
3 |
Ben Caldwell |
55.76 |
4 |
Tom Patton |
55.92 |
5 |
. |
. |
6 |
. |
. |
Men's
100m Hurdles A Final |
1 |
Rob
Newton |
13.36 |
2 |
Todd Matthews
[USA] |
13.65 |
3 |
Peter Coghlan
[IRE] |
13.76 |
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4 |
Mohammed
Silah Freckleton |
13.80 |
5 |
Sultan
Tucker [LIB] |
13.91 |
6 |
Duncan
Mallins |
14.04 |
7 |
Rich Alleyne |
14.08 |
8 |
Andy Turner. |
DNF |
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wind |
1.3 |
Men's
100m Hurdles A Final |
1 |
Luiz
Balcers [BRA] |
14.12 |
2 |
Justin
Lindsey [USA] |
14.15 |
3 |
Kris Jones |
14.22 |
| 4 |
Francis
Smith |
14.43 |
5 |
Matt Butler |
14.64 |
6 |
. |
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7 |
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8 |
. |
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wind |
1.0 |
1 August 2003
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