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Andrew Jones of Texas and Josh Hamblin of Utah, came 1st and 2nd in the 110m hurdles at the Brooks PR Invitational (high school). Jones ran 13.14 (0.9w) for the win. That's a PB for Jones and makes him #2 performer and performance all-time. Hamblin's 13.24 makes him the #5 high school performer...

Puripol Boonson ran 20.03 (0.3w) in Taiwan.

Ewa Swoboda also ran sub 11 today ... 10.99 in Poland, wind legal.

10.97, a new PB for Amy Hunt today in Stockholm to finish 2nd. Glad to see that she has joined the elite sub-11 club.

Trevor Bassitt ran a new PB of 47.37 in a 400m hurdles race that was about as close it could possibly be. He came in 2nd by 2/1000ths of a second!

Henriette Jaeger of Norway wins the women's 400m at the Rome Diamond league in a great time of 49.60. I believe that is the #4 time in the world. She is a little dynamo. Kelly Hodgkinson, the #1 800m runner, came 7th with a PB of 51.14.

Trey Cunningham with a great race in Rome, winning in a World Leading time, and a Personal Best of 12.98! He joins very elite company in the sub-13 club.

Today in Austria, Karolina Manasova of the Czech Republic set a new national record with a time of 11.01 (0.9w). Rebekka Haase of Germany was 2nd in 11.04, and Isabel Posch was 3rd in a NR of 11.10. On the men's side, Elliot Jones of Great Britain won the men's 100m in 10.09 (-0.3w).

Here's a good video of Bobby Morrow winning the AAU (US) Championships in 1956.

Here is Andrew Rock finishing 2nd at the 2005 World Championships at Helsinki. Jeremy Wariner took the gold medal.

Since we're all talking about Sam Blaskowski and how he's gone from DIII Champion to a world class sprinter, it reminds me of another DIII Champion, who also attended The University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, and also became a world class sprinter. That sprinter is Andrew Rock. Rock was a 9-time...

Here's Camden Capehart at the top of Boy's High School 100m list.

Sam Blaskowski at the top of the American Men's 100m.