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Topic: 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics


  
  Coe College Athletics: Wrestling
Ira Carrithers was induced to come to Coe in 1915 as athletic director and coach of basketball and baseball and assistant coach in football.
Willis D. Lamb built over the years a career in athletics and business that is memorable for his dedication to Coe College, his love of hard work and good sportsmanship, and his skill both as a coach and a businessman.
In the 1915 state championship meet won by Coe Bailey won the 100-yard dash, the quarter mile and was a member of the record-setting mile and half-mile relay teams.
www.coe.edu /athletics/halloffame/index.htm   (7024 words)

  
 New York Yankees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Cardinals and the Athletics are tied for second with nine World Series victories each, and the Dodgers are second in World Series appearances with eighteen.
Stengel was blamed for the World Series loss for failing to start his ace, Ford, three times in the Series, and was replaced as manager with Ralph Houk prior to the 1961 season.
The first significant sign of success came in 1994, when the Yankees had the best record in the AL when the season was cut short by the players' strike.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_Yankees   (9023 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Athletics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events.
Athletics was the original sport at the first Olympics back in 776 BC where the only event held was the stadium-length foot race or "stade".
Athletics was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been part of the program ever since, providing the backbone of the Olympics.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Athletics   (1651 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - International Association of Athletics Federations - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics (known in some parts of the world as "track and field").
It was founded in 1912 at its first Congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation.
However, the IAAF retained the word "amateur" in its name until its 2001 Congress at which the IAAF's title was changed to its current form.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=IAAF   (243 words)

  
 hicham
Early in the 1997 season he broke the world indoor records in the 1500 meters and the mile and then won the world indoor championships at 1500 meters.
He won the 1500 meters world championship and took second in the 5000 meters at the world championships.
At the end of the season he was sick and withdrew from the World Athletics Final but won the Iaaf male athlete of the year award for a third straight time.
www.famousmuslims.com /hicham.htm   (773 words)

  
 WyomingAthletics.com : Traditions :: University of Wyoming : Official Athletic Site
One of his first acts as president was to hire Glenn "Red" Jacoby as athletic director, and together they brought Wyoming athletics to national prominence.
He led the Western Athletic Conference in scoring each year he played at Wyoming, and he was selected to the All-WAC team three times.
The offense was a perfect fit for the athletic Talboom, who led Wyoming to a 9-1 record and first ever Skyline Conference title in 1949.
wyomingathletics.cstv.com /trads/hof-1994.html   (1188 words)

  
 1994: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: World adopts Baiul, Ukraine keeps rolling (12/25/94)
After a decade of successes in the 1980s (in 1986, it won the European championship and was ranked second only to the squad that won the World Cup for Argentina that year), Kyyiv Dynamo suffered through considerable financial difficulties and various indignities since independence.
While on the subject of Montrealers, 1994 was also the year when Canada's Greg Rusedski of Pointe Claire, Quebec (a suburb of the home of the Canadiens) also achieved a degree of success.
Ukraine's rowing teams left their stamp on the World Rowing Championship held on September in Indianapolis, Ind., thanks to the dedicated support of Laryssa Barabash Temple, the U.S. representative of the NOCU and the Buffalo Friends of Ukrainian Athletes, whose co-presidents, Mykola Lewczyk and Joe Grega, have become leading patrons of the Ukrainian Olympic movement.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1994/529417.shtml   (2278 words)

  
 TWU Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2002
In her first season of collegiate competition, German won the high jump at the AAU national championships and at the AIAW state, regional and national championships and then went on to compete in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich during the summer.
The 1994 Division II NCAA Woman of the Year for the state of Texas exemplified the true meaning of being a student-athlete.
She was also an active member of the TWU Athletics Council and through her brother, Williams had direct involvement in the Special Olympics.
www.twu.edu /athletics/HOF2002.htm   (1200 words)

  
 IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - World Championships in Athletics 2003 - News
He had nothing to do with athletics in school, other than in PE class, where he found others were better runners than he was.
For those who argue that the dense concentration of world class runners in Kenya's Rift Valley is the result of the snowballing effect of numerous nearby role models, Limo is clearly a case in point.
Won Kenya's loaded World Championships trials 5000 decisively (13:24.8 at 1500m altitude) but aggravated a left calf injury that was still bothering him in Zurich GL 5000, where he chose not to test it with a hard kick and settled for 6th in 13:04.39.
www.iaaf.org /WCH03/news/Kind=2/newsId=23027.html   (3513 words)

  
 1994 Draft Mlb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Since then he produced thousands of drawings in his unusual drafting style; framed or pinned directly on the wall, they are often combined by the dozens in no discernible order, like a giant scattered notebook.
With solo exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1994), Pettibon is considered one of the world's most significant innovators of figurative art.
The 1994 NHL Entry Draft was held on 28 June 1994.
mlbdraft.usamsoc.com /1994draftmlb.html   (937 words)

  
 IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
The 2001 World champion at Half Marathon, Gebrselassie has excelled at that distance this year, setting the World record of 58:55 in Phoenix in January, and in the process breaking the 20km mark too (55:48).
In the Berlin race, where he was well under the World record pace, Gebrselassie slowed to 15:21 for the 5Km between 35Km to 40Km, and thus fell behind.
On his next marathon, at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, he surged away convincingly covering the 5Km from 30Km to 35Km in 14:44 and the 5Km from 35Km to 40Km in 14:49.
www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=36929.html   (1403 words)

  
 UAF: Athletics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Junior guard Mike Titus drives toward the hoop on his way to another two points during the Nanooks' 79-60 win over Northwest Nazarene Jan. 11 in the Patty Center.
The Nanook rifle team dominates college rifle with eight NCAA titles (1994, 1999-2004, 2006) and will host the 2007 national championship in March.
In November 2002, the UAF Division II basketball team won the Division I Top of the World Classic, which pitted them against seven Division I schools; the team finished fourth in the 2005 competition.
www.uaf.edu /uaf/athletics/index.html   (344 words)

  
 Runner's & Triathlete's Web Athletics: World Youth team leads the way to conclude Junior ...
World Youth 400m hurdles gold medalist, Collins separated herself from the from the field after the third hurdle enroute to a Junior Olympic intermediate girls 400m hurdles, record with a time of 58.26 seconds.
World Youth team 100m gold medalist Knight, made good on her promise, winning the intermediate girls 100 meters in time of 11.57.
After a string of impressive performances in the 4x800m, 800m, and 3,000m World Youth team member, Jones, finished her meet on high note by winning the intermediate girls' 1,500 meter run in a time of 4:27.35.
www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20050731_USATF_Junior_Olympics.html   (935 words)

  
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Southern Athletic Club, based in the southern suburban region of Adelaide, South Australia provides a regional club base for Track and Field Athletics.
Athletics SA 1998 under 18 female Athlete of the Year.
I wish these officials the best of luck and it is my hope that they enjoy themselves and return with great and fond memories of their experience.
www.angelfire.com /ab/sac/welcome.html   (520 words)

  
 Texas A&M Athletics Athlete Bios
Pope outpointed Cahill 151.5 to 149.5 in the reining phase, but the AandM star showed why she is the two-time national champion in horsemanship by overtaking Pope in the flat phase to claim her third straight honor.
On Friday at the IHSA National Championships, Cahill successfully defended her individual open horsemanship crown by defeating Laura Phillips of Ohio State for the top spot.
At the first-ever Varsity National Championships, held at the University of Florida, Cahill put on a show by scoring 11 of the Aggies’ 19 points en route to AandM winning the overall title 43-28 over the University of Georgia.
www.aggieathletics.com /bios.php?SID=WEQ&PID=669   (1152 words)

  
 Valparaiso University: Department of Athletics
A seven-time USA World Championships Team member, Liss finished 7th in the 1500 meters and 12th in the 5000 meters at the 2000 Olympic Trials.
Collette also captained the 2003 World Cross Country Team and was a member of the 2002 World Cup Team, competing in the 5000 meters.
As a junior, he was a key part of the first Valpo squad to win 20 games at the Division I level.
www.valpo.edu /athletics/index.php?a=t&a2=vnr&nid=12&nrid=1077   (2003 words)

  
 Cathy Freeman, Famous Athletes, Cathy Freeman
Freeman won medals in 100 meter, 200 meter and 400 meter events in the Australian championships between 1990 and 2003.
She also won seven medals in the 400 meter event in the Australian Championships, among which six were gold medals.
Freeman was the 400 meter world champion in 1997 and 1999.
www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/great-olympians/athletics/cathy-freeman.html   (641 words)

  
 fhu athletics
She was the team captain her junior and senior years and was chosen the Senior Athlete of the Year by the yearbook staff.
Laurent Johnson was athletic director and coach a FHC in the early years of the school’s athletic programs and his contributions to the forming of our programs make his selection to the Sports Hall of Fame only fitting.
His participation in athletics had begun at CCHS in 1927 when he was a member of the football and baseball squads.
www.fhu.edu /athletics/halloffame.asp   (10156 words)

  
 Cathy Freeman - Athletics Gold
Her fast times gave her good world rankings in both events and it seemed Cathy had arrived as a star of world athletics.
In 1995 she experienced a setback of sorts when she blew up in the final of the World Championships 400m, when expected to medal, and finished fourth.
Though she missed the 1998 Commonwealth Games due to injury, she returned to win the World Championships 400m in 1999 and looked set to challenge for a fairytale gold medal in the Sydney Olympic Games.
www.geocities.com /geetee/bios/cathy.html   (960 words)

  
 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING Quality Indicators Spring 2003  Superior academic and support programs
Additionally, UW was ranked 42nd in the world in industrial organization economics, ahead of schools including University of Iowa, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Cornell University, Texas AandM University, Rutgers University, and Brigham Young University.
In addition, Holbrook was elected to a two-year term as secretary of the American Geophysical Union's Seismology section, the world's largest association of seismologists in academia.
Organized by the UW Art Museum, the exhibition is traveling to the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles, the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.
uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu /uw/facts/quality.asp   (13099 words)

  
 The History of Jim Crow
The very lucrative and prestigious title of world heavyweight boxing champion was racially charged by the beginning of the 20th century.
Boxing, fostered by groups such as the Police Athletic League, continues to be a popular sport among young, predominantly urban African Americans, and, with such celebrity bouts as the one between Laila Ali and Jacqui Frazier, has begun attracting young women as well as young men.
In 1888, the LCBC held the "Colored Championships of America" baseball tournament, which was won by the Cuban Giants over teams from Pittsburgh, New York, and Norfolk.
www.jimcrowhistory.org /resources/lessonplans/hs_es_sports.htm   (7144 words)

  
 New York State Association of Independent Schools: Conferences and Workshops
She is a prolific writer and speaker in the areas of coaches’ employment and compensation systems, creating tiered athletic program models, coach evaluation and Title IX.
Her 39 career goals are tied for the highest total in school history, while she holds the record for most assists in a game with four.
Prior to his arrival at Drew, he served as the assistant varsity/head junior varsity coach at Columbia University from 2000-03 where he helped develop the nation’s number one scoring defensive team that led the Ivy League in scoring defense, field goal percentage defense, and blocked shots.
www.nysais.org /page.cfm?p=4&verbose=51&ref=list   (1651 words)

  
 Haile Gebrselassie, Famous Athletes, Haile Gebrselassie
Gebrselassie again became the world champion in the 5000 meter and 10,000 meter events in the 2000 World Championships.
In the 2003 World Championships, Gebrselassie won silver medal in the 10,000 meter event.
He won another world title in the 3000 meter event in the IAAF World Indoor Championships.
www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/great-olympians/athletics/haile-gebrselassie.html   (793 words)

  
 On Campus - The University of Maryland Terrapins - Official Athletic Site
The University of Maryland athletics program is widely recognized as one of the best in the nation.
Maryland ranked 6th nationally in the Excellence in Athletics Cup, an award that recognizes all-around achievement in athletics and areas associated with student-athletes, including (1) graduation rates, (2) gender equity, (3) financial integrity, and (4) competitive excellence.
The Terps are one of only 7 schools to have won a National Championship in both football and men's basketball (the others are Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, UCLA, Syracuse and Connecticut).
umterps.cstv.com /school-bio/md-athletics.html   (333 words)

  
 Day 5 - World Junior Championships - DyeStat High School Track   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carolina Kluft is on her way to a world junior record.
Winner of the World Youth Championships in Debrecen last year, Brown powered to the finish line of the men’s 100m final to clock a new Championships record of 10.09.
After winning this year's World junior cross country title, no one doubted, as is the tradition, much more would be heard of Gebre-egziabhe Gebremariam, another awesome Ethiopian teenager.
www.dyestat.com /us/2out/WorldJr/day5.htm   (5198 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Athletics | Athlete with sticking power
He may have finished fifth in his final race at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, but he bowed out of hurdling a true champion.
Jackson still holds the world record for 110m hurdles, which stands a decade after he broke the 13 second barrier and set a new time of 12.91secs.
Fellow hurdler, American Tony Rees, who was in the race with Jackson when he broke the world record, gave his opinion to BBC Wales Sport.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/athletics/2849321.stm   (614 words)

  
 Beijing This Month- World Junior Championships Close
One world junior record and ten championship records were broken.
Traditional world track and field powerhouse Kenya finished on top of the medal tally with six gold, six silver and three bronze medals.
With less than two years to go before 2008, the world junior championships were an important rehearsal for the Games in Beijing.
www.btmbeijing.com /contents/en/btm/2006-09/whatshot/junior   (337 words)

  
 Nazret.com EthioBlog - Athletics
The 25-year-old Tadesse, the World 20km road race champion took the race by the scruff of its neck after breaking away from the defending champion Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia before sprinting away to win in 35 minutes 50 seconds.
Kenya's world 10,000 meters bronze medallist Moses Mosop was second in 36:13 and his compatriot Bernard Kiprop third in 36:37.
Kenya's Linet Barasa won the junior women's race, but the race was chaotic as her compatriot and the defending champion Pauline Korikwiang along with two Ethiopians stopped after crossing the line thinking that they had taken the medals - only to be informed that it was the penultimate lap.
nazret.com /blog/index.php?cat=62   (1989 words)

  
 1994 4runner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As a bonus, the 1994 Stanley Cup Champions Highlight Program, which tells the story of the entire season, is included.
1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics - The 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 1994 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics.
Quebec general election, 1994 - The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12, 1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada.
www.gzjunan.com /19944runner.html   (592 words)

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