Athletics: HURDLE TOO FAR; Jaded Jacko finds it so tough as he brings curtain down on career.Byline: Frank Haynes David Francis Haynes, usually known as Frank Haynes (8 March 1926 – 11 September 1998) was a British Labour politician. A former miner, Haynes became MP for Ashfield in 1979, regaining a seat that had been lost to the Conservatives in the 1977 by-election. COLIN JACKSON
Colin Ray Jackson CBE (born February 18, 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh sprint and hurdling athlete of Jamaican and distant yesterday blew his dream of making a golden farewell to his glorious athletics career. World record holder Jackson was fifth and outside the medals in the 60 metres hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. The 36-year-old Welshman, making his 71st appearance in a British vest , clocked 7.61 seconds. He was second off the blocks behind Shaun Bownes Shaun Bownes (born 24 October 1970 in Johannesburg) is a South African hurdler. His personal best time is 13.26 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Heusden. This is the current African record. [1] He also holds the African record in 60 metres hurdles (indoor) with 7. , the Commonwealth 110m hurdles champion. But a tiring Jackson was overtaken in the rush for the finishing line. Allen Johnson, the world 110m outdoor champion, won in 7.47secs ahead of Sydney Olympic gold medallist Anier Garcia, who clocked 7.49secs. In third place behind the American and Cuban came Liu Xiang, world junior record holder, in 7.52secs. Another personal best lifted Frenchman Ladji Doucoure to fourth in 7.58secs. Jackson said: "It has been a wonderful, wonderful, 20-odd years I've been performing. "I'm sorry I couldn't perform a little bit better but my legs are really tired." Jonathan Edwards also finished empty-handed when he had a horror last round in the triple jump. He had been lying second with a fifth-round jump of 17.31m but superb efforts from Walter Davis and Yoelbi Quesada pushed the Olympic champion into fourth place. American Davis cleared 17.35m - the biggest leap of his career - to go top of the leaderboard lead·er·board n. A board that displays the leaders in a competition. leaderboard Noun a board displaying the current scores of the leading competitors, esp in a golf tournament . European champion Christian Olsson from Sweden registered 17.70m, the best in the world this year. And Cuban Quesada, former world outdoor champion, moved third, clearing 17.27 to put the pressure on Edwards who could manage only 17.19. The Briton has never won the title. The closest he has come was runner- up two years ago. The British side bettered their best total of six WIC WIC - WAN Interface Card medals in 1985 when they were third in the men's 4x400 metres relay. The team - Jamie Baulch, Tim Benjamin, Corie Henry and individual silver medallist Daniel Caines - finished in a season's best time of 3:06.12. The United States won the event in 3:04.09 - the fastest time in the world this year - ahead of Jamaica, whose time of 3:04.21 was a national record. Among the women, Kelly Holmes broke the British 1500m record as she won silver. The Commonwealth champion was no match for world record holder Regina Jacobs, the American racing away for an easy win in a championship record time of 4:01.67. Holmes sat comfortably in the pack during the early stages and in the last 200m slipped past on the inside of Russian Yekaterina Rozenberg to beat her across the line by 0.14secs in 4:02.66. Holmes' performance was more than four seconds better than the previous UK record of 4:06.75 set by Hayley Tullett last year. |
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