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Angela Perkins sets 2 high school records

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Angela Perkins sets 2 high school records
Jack Pfeifer for IAAF

11 March 2001 – New York - American teen-ager Angel Perkins broke schoolgirl records in the 200 and 400 meters 90 minutes apart at the U.S. High School Indoor championships here today.

Perkins, 16, a high school junior from Cerritos, California, ran 53.25 in the 400, then came from behind with 50 meters left to overhaul Sanya Richards in the 200 in 23.59. Both broke U.S. high school indoor records.

"I thought I could win," Perkins said, "but I didn't know I was going to run that fast."

The meet was held on the banked 200m track at The Armory. Richards, a Jamaican attending school in Florida, was second in 23.71. She set the previous national record, 23.64, last year.

Moments earlier, a national record was set in the boys' 200 by Brendan Christian, of Austin, Texas, in 21.02, in a stirring stretch battle with Glenn McFadden, of New Haven, Conn. McFadden ran 21.05.

Toyin Olopuna, a multinational 18-year-old from Orillia, Ontario, won the girls' 60m in 7.36. "I was born in London," she said, "and moved to Canada in 1991." Her parents, however, are Nigerian. "I can represent any one of those countries. I haven't decided yet which one."

A Canadian 15-year-old from Pickering, Ontario, Tabia Charles, won the girls' triple jump with a lifetime-best 12.92.

On Friday, two U.S. girls battled in the pole vault, and both set national schoolgirl records. After tying at a record 4.01, Samantha Shepard and Stacie Manuel failed at 4.10 before Shepard, a 17-year-old from Weston, Massachusetts, won a jumpoff at 4.05.

An attempt at a 4-minute mile fizzled when Nick Willis, from Lower Hutt, New Zealand, became ill and struggled home to win in 4:10.43, far off the 4:01.33 he ran outdoors two months ago. "It's been a long season, since October," said Willis, who lay collapsed on the infield for 20 minutes after the race.

In the pentathlon on Saturday, Laurent Lavigne-Masse of Montreal won with a score of 3568.

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