POSTED: Monday August 24th 2009
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Team USA Superlatives, 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Team USA won more gold medals than any other country (10)

Notable accomplishments by Team USA athletes at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin:

 -Team USA won more gold medals than any other country (10)...2nd place Jamaica (7)

-Team USA won more medals than any other country (22)...2nd place Jamaica (13)

 -Team USA dominated the placing table with 231 points…2nd place Russia (154)

 -Tyson Gay posts American record in 100 meters: 9.71 seconds (third-fastest time ever).

 -Dwight
Phillips won his third world outdoor title in the men’s long jump,
tying Ivan Pedroso of Cuba for the most wins ever at this event.

 -Trey
Hardee improved his personal best by 256 points in winning the
decathlon gold medal with 8,790 points, making him the #3 American all
time in that event.

 -Team
USA is now the only nation to have three separate athletes win gold in
the men’s shot put in three consecutive years: Adam Nelson (2005),
Reese Hoffa (2007), Christian Cantwell (2009).

 -
Michelle Carter’s sixth-place finish in the women’s shot put is the
highest by an American since Connie Price-Smith finished fifth in 1997.

 -Amy
Yoder Begley’s sixth-place finish in the women’s 10,000m in 31:13.78 is
the fastest time ever by an American at a World Outdoor Championships.

-Jenny
Barringer bettered her own American record in the 3,000m steeplechase
final in 9:12.50, which improved upon her previous standard by nearly
10 seconds. Her fifth-place finish is the highest ever by an American
at a World Championships.

 -Dathan
Ritzenhein’s time of 27:22:28 is the best ever by an American in the
10,000m at a World Outdoor Championships. His sixth-place finish is
also the best ever by an American.

-For the first time in World
Championships history, three U.S. men: Bernard Lagat, Lopez Lomong and
Leonel Manzano qualified for the men’s 1,500m final. The last time
three American men appeared in an Olympic 1,500m final was 1968 (Jim
Ryun, Tom Von Ruden, Marty Liquori).

-Kerron Clement joined
National Track & Field Hall of Famer Edwin Moses (1983, 1987) and
Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic (2001, 2003) as the only men
ever to win the world 400m hurdles title twice. All three accomplished
the feat in consecutive years.

-Rachel Yurkovich became the
first American woman to qualify for the women’s javelin final at a
World Championships since Karin Smith finished 10th in 1983.

 -These
championships mark the first time ever that Team USA has placed three
women (Christin Wurth-Thomas, Shannon Rowbury & Anna Willard) in a
World Outdoor Championships 1,500m final.

- Nick Symmonds is the
first American to make the men’s 800m final at a world outdoor
championships since Rich Kenah won the bronze medal and Mark Everett
finished eighth in 1997.

-Allyson Felix won her third consecutive women’s world 200m title, more than anyone in history.

 -Stephanie
Brown Trafton and Aretha Thurmond qualified for the women’s discus
final. It was the first time two Americans competed in that final since
2001.

-Kara Goucher’s 10th place finish in the women’s marathon
is the highest for an American since Linda Somers placed seventh in
1995.

 -Team
USA women’s fifth place finish in the World Marathon Cup at the World
Outdoor Championships is its best finish ever. Team USA finished sixth
in 1999, 2005 & 2007.

 -
For the first time ever, three U.S. women (Rowbury, Wurth-Thomas,
Willard) finished in the top ten in the women’s 1,500 meters.

-Shannon
Rowbury’s bronze medal win in the women’s 1,500m final is the highest
finish by an American since Regina Jacobs won the silver medal in 1999.

-Team USA’s gold medal winning women’s 4x400m relay squad of
Debbie Dunn, Allyson Felix, Lashinda Demus and Sanya Richards posted
the fastest time in the world since 1993 (3:17.83). It is the
sixth-fastest time ever.

 -Brittney
Reese’s win in the women’s long jump is the first by an American at the
World Outdoor Championships since Tianna Madison won gold at Helsinki
in 2005.

 -Team
USA’s gold medal winning 4x400m relay quartet of Angelo Taylor, Jeremy
Wariner, Kerron Clement and LaShawn Merritt posted the fastest time in
the world this year of 2:57.86.

For more information on Team USA at the World Outdoor Championships, visit http://www.usatf.org/events/2009/IAAFWorldOutdoorChampionships/. 
 
 

     

About USA Track & Field

 

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Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and
field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States.
USATF encompasses the world’s oldest organized sports, some of the
most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and
junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult
runners in the United States.

 

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