EME News: Junior Corner

July 6, 2008 from EME News from Alfonz Juck / www.runblogrun.com

LJUBLJANA (SLO): Matic Molicnik, who improved on 10.66 at 100m this year, will be one of the athletes of the Slovenian team representing at the 12th World Junior Championships in Polish Bydgoszcz starting next week. Among 9 women, Maja Mihelinec will be the next 100m sprinter as she ran 11.71 this year and third from the WYC Ostrava 2007, Maja Bratkic will try Triple Jump with a PB of 13.18m (2007). The Slovenian Athletics Association (ASZ) also named women's 4x100m squad for Bydgoszcz.

OSAKA (JPN): From 27 Japanese athletes 7 women will be representing the country at the 12th World Junior Championships next week. National champion Asuka Terada will be the only athlete doing two events - 100m (PB 11.71) and 100m Hurdles (PB 13.39). 800 m will be the event of Ruriko Kubo, who was able to run 2:04.44 already in 2006. On the men's side, Hiroki Sasase is the hope for Pole Vault (PB 5.41m), and only 17-year-old Akinobu Murasawa for 5000m with a PB 13:58.72, also as Ryuji Kashiwabara in 10.000m with PB 28:44.42 (2008).

KYIV (UKR): The Ukrainian team for the 12th World Junior Championships will be led by the junior world record holder in discus (1.750 - 70.13 m, Halle), Mykyta Nesterenko and javelin thrower Vira Rebryk with a European record very close to the junior WR - (62.93 m, 2003). Among 18 men next 3 national recorders are named - Seheda Stanislav in the Shot Put (PB 19.95 - 6kg), Andriy Martynyuk in the Hammer Throw (75.46m - 6kg) and finally a decathlete Mark Tymchenko (7242 pts). The Ukrainian medallists form the World youth championships in Ostrava 2007 are also on the starting list: gold Yuliya Baraley will run 400m (PB 52.40) and bronze Dmytro Savickiy will try Shot Put (PB 19.05). The bronze medalist from the 11th IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, Bohdan Bondarenko, is also in the team as his PB is 2.26m and this year he has already managed to jump over 2.25. Serhiy Tsybulka, who is also a solid High Jumper (PB 2.15) will represent in the men´s Pole Vault (PB 5.10m). Also the finalist from World Junior Championships 2006, Sheryf El-Sheryf, will represent in both Long Jump (7.82 - indoors) and Triple Jump (16.60m - indoors). Silver medalist from the 20th European Junior Championships in Hengelo 2007, Hanna Knyazeva, can be one of the leading names as she has a PB of 13.85m.

NAIROBI (KEN): 22 Kenyan runners will try to get medal at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz next week and the team is led by the World junior cross country bronze medallist Mathew Kisorio. The gold 800m medalist from the World Youth Championships 2007, Geoffrey Kibet, is also in the squad (PB 1:47.1). Titus Mbishai (PB 8:18.3), the 5th from 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Edinburgh, will start at 10.000m together with Josphat Bett. 8:29.1 is the PB achieved by Patrick Terer who will compete at 3000m Steeplechase together with Jonathan Muia. A silver medalist at 800m from the last World Junior Championships in Beijing 2006, Winny Chebet (PB 2:04.10), will be the leader of the group of 10 Kenyan women. The next gold medalist from the World Youth Championships in Ostrava 2007, Mercy Cherono, will fight for a medal at women's 3000m (PB 8:53.94). The top juniors prefer senior competitions (Jelimo, Masai, etc.).

BYDGOSZCZ (POL): After 30 hours of traveling the Australian team of 11 men and 17 women arrived in Poland for the 12th World Junior Championships in the city of Bydgoszcz. 18-year old Vicky Parnov, who was clearly first at the World Youth Championships in Ostrava last year and got bronze from WJC in Beijing 2006, is the greatest medal hope of the Australian team. The young Pole Vaulter with a PB 4.40m has already an experience from the senior World Championships in Osaka last year. The next young athlete with Osaka experience is 400m runner Kurt Mulcahy. He will represent at both 400m (PB 46.03) and 200m (PB 21.07). Adam Bevis, the bronze medalist in the Octathlon at WYC Ostrava 2007, will try Decathlon with a PB 7117 points. The Ostrava´s silver medal winner in Javelin, Hamish Peacock, comes with a solid PB of 71.36m. The 10k Race Walker Jessica Rothwell is also expected to challenge the rest of the field as she was already 5th in the junior race at the World Race Walking Cup in Cheboskary (PB 48:03.62). The next possible final placement can be expected from Kimberley Mulhall (shot put - 14.94m and discus - 51.69m), Ryan Gregson (1500m - 3:43.84), James Kaan (800m - 1:47.62), and Lomana Fagatuai (shot put - 14.89m and discus - 50m).

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