Ok, I looked.
Position 1 to 5 all ran PBs
Position 6 and 7 were near PB
Position 8 was a couple of tenth slower than her PB
Unusually fast race.
Ok, I looked.
Position 1 to 5 all ran PBs
Position 6 and 7 were near PB
Position 8 was a couple of tenth slower than her PB
Unusually fast race.
2nd wasn't a PB (0.02 slower). Most of the PBs were less than 0.2, and often equalling previous w times. Fast but what you would expect in ideal conditions in the most prestigious race of the year. These girls don't get much competition most of the year (outside of CA states)
Vhyvhgvghvhg wrote:
Ok, I looked.
Position 1 to 5 all ran PBs
Position 6 and 7 were near PB
Position 8 was a couple of tenth slower than her PB
Unusually fast race.
rojo wrote:
Sub 11 as a tenth grader? Is that the greatest hs performance ever in like all events...
Jim Ryun's 3:55 because he set the HR and beat --out kicked-- Peter Snell the Olympic champion.
G-Spotter wrote:
2nd wasn't a PB (0.02 slower). Most of the PBs were less than 0.2, and often equalling previous w times.
Fast but what you would expect in ideal conditions in the most prestigious race of the year. These girls don't get much competition most of the year (outside of CA states)
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Ok, let's pull out this thread in 2 years.
Here is the part that no one anywhere is talking about.
I was in New Mexico 2 weeks ago and saw Candace Hill run there. The week before Candace was in Eugene to run the high school 200 meter dash at the Prefontaine Classic. Last week as is noted on this thread she was in New York and this weekend she is in Seattle, Washington.
In the space of 4 weeks Ms Hill has traveled roughly 17000 miles to find conditions that would be conducive to producing the optimum results.
Hats off to Ms Hill, her coaches, her parents and most importantly her travel agent.
initial reports for the wind was 2.5. tons of PRS and it turns out to be exactly the maximum wind aka Beamon's Long Jump.
Actually on the webcast it showed up as 2.0 from the start. Somebody tweeted it as 2.5 and since twitter is more important than an actual broadcast that is what everybody seems to think the wind was.
But count me as a believer as I have seen her run in person.
But while everyone will comment on wind and sometimes wind and altitude conversions they never actually talk about how windy conditions actually affect a sprint race.
Having been to numerous track and field meets throughout my career as a track coach I have noticed that some winds are just a little bit better than others.
In the Brooks PR meet the thing that caught my attention first was the equipment shed directly behind the runners.
Colorado University hosted the Big 12 championships at Potts field about 7 years ago which boasted this exact configuration.
What I noticed then was perhaps what happened in Seattle on Saturday. The wind is blocked by the shed but a disturbance is created and the wind is then forced over the shed accelerating faster then the 2.0 meter per second allowable. Yet it decelerates back to the 2.0 meter allowable by the time the wind is measured at the wind gauge.
Now I always wondered about two things when they use wind gauges in meets and that is the fact that the wind in the curve for a 200 meter race is never measured and that the wind guage is placed at 50 meters for a 100 meter race.
IMHO I believe that the biggest benefit for a sprinter in the 100 meter dash is gained in the first 30 meters of a race and in a 200 meter dash that advantage is gained in the curve.
Does anybody know what that would convert to with 0mps wind?
Les wrote:
Does anybody know what that would convert to with 0mps wind?
11.103
http://myweb.lmu.edu/jmureika/track/wind/index.htmlhahahahahaha,thats hilarious,and very immature.As a big muscular gay man,being emasculated by women isnt even relevant to me..Also 10.98 is a fast 16 year old boy's time.Thats not a girl's time.Americans are the world champions of drug use in sport,and anybody with half a brain living outside the US knows this.
What just happened? wrote:
One of the all-time great high school performances... as a sophomore.
I don't get this American fixation on what class they are in. All that matters is age. As I understand it a freshman could be anywhere from 14-16. Pretty meaningless saying "he/she ran it as a freshman".
Mark Lewis Francis ran 10.93 as a 15 year old.
How old is Ms Hill?
Did she eat three plates of beans before that race?
She's damn fast!
Candace Hill is 16 years and 131 days old.
It's meaningless until she is tested for doping.
I highly doubt they test for anything at a HS meet, even in one of this caliber. HS running has gotten way too crazy.
Just about a month younger than Wilma Rudolph anchoring the US 4x100 in 1956 Melbourne Olympics (bronze medal). Of course, Candace would have won the Gold that year.
douglas burke wrote:
Candace Hill is 16 years and 131 days old.
jeff tallon wrote:
hahahahahaha,thats hilarious,and very immature.As a big muscular gay man,being emasculated by women isnt even relevant to me..Also 10.98 is a fast 16 year old boy's time.Thats not a girl's time.Americans are the world champions of drug use in sport,and anybody with half a brain living outside the US knows this.
There's nothing immature about pointing out the obvious, and everything immature about your lame troll attempts. Your muscles are just covering up your insecurities and feelings of emasculation. It's quite pathetic for a grown man to be hiding behind a computer, spewing vitriol about a CHILD. But continue being in denial. ;)
She was tested at the meet.
Logical Man wrote:
I highly doubt they test for anything at a HS meet, even in one of this caliber. HS running has gotten way too crazy.
She looks a lot like Bolt when she comes up from her start and starts lengthening her stride. Looks like a one-of-a-kind athlete.
Good memories from that track! I never raced well, but had nice workouts I remember watching Norris Frederick throw down his incredible triple in 2004 (meet records in the HJ (7 feet, 1 inch) and LJ (24-4¾), and 47-11¼ to win the TJ). Also Pyrah showing up to the Seattle Track Classic to race the new Husky ace Eric Garner.
Hill's Soph 10.98 and Hunter's JR 8:42 and Brazier with 1:47 and Rohrer at 9:59 are staggering add-on's.
Doclove wrote:
Candace rather than Candice!
Why do Americans take regular names then misspell them?
Candace was a legendary (i.e. almost certainly fictional) Nubian queen who defeated Alexander the Great. I have no idea if that's the origin of her name, but it's hardly a misspelling of a "regular name".