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Several junior world leads posted in Changzhou
23 April 2012 - Just days after China had confirmed a big team for the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona (10-15 July) in the preliminary entries, the junior athletes of the country underlined their medal chances at the National Junior Championships in Changzhou during the weekend.
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Weather improves to allow records to highlight last day of CARIFTA Games
10 April 2012 - The last time the CARIFTA Games were held in Bermuda, Usain Bolt set a World Junior record, running 19.93 seconds to win the Under-20 men’s 200m. Eight years later, with the LIME CARIFTA Games back at the Bermuda National Sports Complex in Devonshire this Easter weekend (7, 8, 9 April) and in the presence of IAAF President Lamine Diack, weather conditions were initially far from ideal for record-setting, unless you were expecting new marks for wind speed! The gauge read up to 5.5 metres per second, and temperatures hovered in themed teens for the first two days.
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Five qualify for Barcelona at South African junior champs in Germiston
1 April 2012 - With the start of April marking exactly 100 days to go until the IAAF World Junior Championships, Barcelona 2012, five newly crowned champions from this weekend's Yellow Pages South African Youth, Junior and Schools National Track and Field Championships in Germiston, achieved the required qualifying standard to secure their places on the national team for the World Junior Championships which take place from 10-15 July.
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