Jeshua Anderson: Champion again
by Jeff Nusser on Jun 12, 2009 10:54 PM PDT
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PrintLike Barack Obama's march to the White House in November, there are some things that mere mortals just don't stand a chance of stopping.
Things like Jeshua Anderson in the 400-meter hurdles.
Anderson successfully defended his NCAA title tonight, lowering his school record time in the event to 49.28 48.47 seconds despite fighting a sore hamstring and not clearing the ninth hurdle cleanly.
"I need to work on my alternate leg more but my coaches said to come off of hurdle eight and try to run through it. Hopefully it looked better but that one was nasty. My legs are tired but all of this has been a blessing. I'm happy to be here and I thank God. I know Dutch was on me the whole time and we've been going at it since last year and I'm looking forward to years to come."
Anderson never ceases to amaze me. He runs one full lap around a track ... jumping over stuff ... in less than 50 seconds. Ridiculous.
Congrats again to Anderson, who continues to make all of us Cougs proud.
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It is amazing
I went to a 4A highschool in Washington state and ran track there. I was actually pretty good, and made it to State two years in a row. My event was the 400m, and the fastest I ever ran was 51 seconds. It seriously blows my mind that Jeshua can run the same distance, jumping over a bunch of hurdles, 2 seconds faster than I could.
Actually, you listed his semifinal time.
His winning time was a blistering 48.47 <http://www.flashresults.com/2009_Meets/outdoor/NCAA/>
Now if we could just get someone to throw him a proper deep ball...
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Jeshua Anderson is in select company....
His winning time yesterday was a personal best of 48.47.
The NCAA record of 47.56 in the 400-meter hurdles is held by Kerron Clement of Florida, set in 2005.
The Olympic and world record record of 46.78 was set by USA’s Kevin Young in 1992 in Barcelona.
For a comparison, USA’s Angelo Taylor won this event in Beijing in a time of 47.25.
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