Britany Anderson Sets New World U20 100H Record

Jamaican Britany Anderson set a new world U20 record in the women’s 100m hurdles at Wednesday’s (24 July) Motonet Joensuu Grand Prix in Finland.

First, the 18-year-old clocked 12.79 in the heats to beat the previous best of 12.84 set by Cuban Aliuska Lopez in 1987. Then, Anderson went considerably faster in the final, winning the race in 12.71 (+1.3m/s), 0.01 ahead of Annimari Korte whose 12.72 was a new Finnish record.

Anderson, the 2017 world U18 champion and silver medallist at the World U20 championships last summer, arrived in the eastern Finnish city with a 13.01 best set at last year’s championships in Tampere.

American Dior Hall ran 12.74 in 2015, but the time is yet to be ratified by the IAAF.

Selected Results Below:

100m A (1.9) 1 Takuya Kawakami (jpn) 10.27; 2 Andrew Fisher (brn) 10.32; 3 Jonathan Nyepa (mas) 10.37; 4 Przemyslaw Slowikowski (pol) 10.37; 5 Oskari Lehtonen 10.53; 6 Robert Moise (hai) 10.59; 7 Jonathan Quarcoo (nor) 10.59; 8 Amiya Kumar Mallick (ind) 10.60

200m A (1.2) 1 Przemyslaw Slowikowski (pol) 20.77; 2 Kirara Shiraishi (jpn) 20.83; 3 Oskari Lehtonen 20.83; 4 Masafumi Naoki (jpn) 21.28; 5 Robert Moise (hai) 21.30; 6 Jonathan Nyepa (mas) 21.39

800m A 1 Ramzi Abdenouz (alg) 1.47.28; 2 Joseph Reid (gbr) 1.47.71; 3 Andreas Bube (den) 1.47.99; 4 Christian Von Eitzen (ger) 1.48.54; 5 Mohamed Abouettahery (mar) 1.48.89; 6 Jan Petrac (slo) 1.49.15; 7 Ville Lampinen 1.49.73; 8 Joonas Rinne 1.50.38; 9 Rivar Tipp (est) 1.53.51

3.000m 1 Topi Raitanen 7.52.82; 2 Per Svela (nor) 7.55.83; 3 Marius Vedvik (nor) 7.56.29; 4 Sam Atkin (gbr) 8.01.41; 5 Brian Fay (irl) 8.09.26; 6 David Nilsson (swe) 8.09.90; 7 Erik Udo Pedersen (nor) 8.14.96; … 9 Alexander Nilsson (swe) 8.16.54; … 12 Sebastian Nilsson (swe) 8.19.73

LJ 1 Roni Ollikainen 7.79 (1.0); 2 Kalle Salminen 7.74 (0.6); 3 Ifeanyichukwu Otuonye (tks) 7.66 (0.6); 4 Mateusz Rózanski (pol) 7.63 (1.0); 5 Ramone Bailey (jam) 7.58 (1.4); 6 Reynold Banigo (gbr) 7.43 (1.2)

TJ 1 Roger Haitengi (nam) 16.26 (1.5); 2 Adrian Swiderski (pol) 16.24 (0.8); 3 Simo Lipsanen 16.15 (1.1); 4 Carlos Veiga (por) 16.02 (1.4); 5 Topias Koukkula 15.92 (1.7)

JT 1 Magnus Kirt (est) 87.35; 2 Antti Ruuskanen 80.79; 3 Lassi Etelätalo 80.72; 4 Shivpal Singh (ind) 76.90; 5 Tanel Taanmae (est) 75.82; 6 Toni Sirviö 72.54; 7 Teo Takala 72.49; 8 Joni Karvinen 72.12; 9 Patrik Torn 70.44

Women

800m A 1 Hedda Hynne (nor) 2.02.42; 2 Maryna Arzamasava (blr) 2.03.12; 3 Volha Nemahai (blr) 2.03.53; 4 Sara Kuivisto 2.04.09; 5 Liga Velvere (lat) 2.04.36

100mh A (1.3) 1 Britany Anderson (jam) 12.71; 2 Annimari Korte 12.72; 3 Reetta Hurske 12.78; 4 Isabelle Pedersen (nor) 13.28 (13.23 (1.2) 2h1); 5 Rikenette Steenkamp (rsa) 13.35 (13.20 (1.4) 4h2); 6 Jutta Heikkinen 13.74 (13.65 (1.4) 5h2); B (1.4) Marika Partinen 13.72; in heats: Nooralotta Neziri 12.95 (1.4) 3h2; Julia Enarvi 13.61 (1.2) 3h1; Viivi Avikainen 13.70 (1.4) 6h2

400mh 1 Lina Nielsen (gbr) 56.91; 2 Jessie Knight (gbr) 56.94; 3 Wenda Nel (rsa) 58.09; 4 Eveliina Määtänen 59.11

3.000m St 1 Camilla Richardsson 9.35.27; 2 Alicja Konieczek (pol) 9.36.09; 3 Fancy Cherono (ken) 9.36.61; 4 Elizabeth Bird (gbr) 9.36.84; 5 Adva Cohen (isr) 9.38.01; 6 Michelle Finn (irl) 9.41.23; 7 Tuigong Caroline Chepkurui (ken) 9.48.97; 8 Jania Rauma 9.49.95; 9 Jana Sussmann (ger) 9.54.30; 10 Yukari Ishizawa (jpn) 10.01.98; 11 Valeriya Zhandarova (geo) 10.13.69

HJ 1 Mariya Siratsiuk (blr) 1.79; … 3 Nadezhda Andryukhina (rus) 1.75

JT 1 Tatsiana Khaladovich (blr) 64.82; 2 Irena Sediva (cze) 59.35; 3 Asdis Hjalmsdottir (isl) 59.27; 4 Ge Lijuan (chn) 55.71; 5 Jenni Kangas 55.12; 6 Heidi Nokelainen 53.29; 7 Marina Saito (jpn) 52.34; 8 Jatta-Mari Jääskeläinen 50.27; 9 Risa Miyashita (jpn) 50.23