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HBCU products finish 1-2 in men’s
400m hurdles final at World Track & Field
Championships
August 10, 2005
HELSINKI, Finland - In a 400m hurdles final that began in a steady
drizzle and ended in a downpour, 2005 USA Outdoor Championships
runner-up and St Augustine's product Bershawn Jackson (Raleigh,
N.C.) won the gold medal with Hampton alum James Carter (Baltimore,
Md.) capturing the silver medal Tuesday night at the World Outdoor
Championships in Helsinki.
The race began with reigning Olympic gold medalist and two-time
defending world champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic
falling to the track before arriving at the first turn after
appearing to suffer an injury to his hamstring. Carter, Jackson
and fellow American Kerron Clement (Gainesville, Fla.) ran
strongly through the backstretch with Jackson using his speed
to pull away from the competition down the main straightaway
to win in a personal best of 47.30 seconds. Carter finished
second with a career best time of 47.43. Japan's Dai Tamesue
finished third in 48.10, just ahead of Clement, who placed
fourth in 48.18.
Jackson's victory is the first for an American in this event
at a world championships since Derrick Adkins mined gold at
Gothenburg in 1995 (47.98). For Carter, who placed fourth in
the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, his silver medal win matches
Joey Woody's (48.18) performance in Paris in 2003.
The only other time Americans went 1-2 in the 400m hurdles
at a world outdoor championships was in Rome in 1987 when National
Track & Field Hall of Famer and Morehouse alum Edwin Moses
won the gold and Danny Harris brought home the silver medal.
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