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Bahamas mens relay team advances to finals in Barcelona
By Kermit Taylor - Bahamas Athletics
Jul 14, 2012 - 4:22:50 PM

AAF World Junior Championships - Update 5

Barcelona, SPAIN - Team Bahamas mens 4x400 Metres Relay team finishes third and advances to the finals on July 14th at the IAAF World Junior Championships. Meet the team Julian Munroe, Stephen Newbold, Elroy McBride and O'Jay Ferguson...

Reporting and photos by Kermit Taylor of Bahamas Athletics.

Heat 1
Position Lane Team Country Mark .
1 3 Jamaica Junior
(Shavon Barnes; Omar McLeod; Jermaine Fyffe; Lennox Williams) JAM 3:08.83 Q (SB)
2 7 Italy Junior
(Vito Incantalupo; Alberto Rontini; Davide Re; Michele Tricca) ITA 3:08.87 Q (SB)
3 4 Bahamas Junior
(Julian Munroe; Stephen Newbold; Elroy McBride; O'Jay Ferguson) BAH 3:08.96 (SB)
4 6 Spain Junior
(Julio Arenas; Lucas Bua; David Jiménez; Sergi Torres) ESP 3:14.85 (SB)
5 8 India Junior
(Sandeep Sandeep; Sanjeev Sheokand; Jeevan Karekoppa Suresh; Sumit Malik) IND 3:20.12 .
. 5 South Africa Junior
(Taariq Solomons; Pieter Conradie; Bernardus Pretorius; Ruan Greyling) RSA DQ .

In the Finals of the men 200m Teray Smith ran out of lane 2 and finished 7th. Teray really gave it his all. Position Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark . React 1 6 848 Delano Williams TKS 20.48 (NJ) 0.159 2 9 911 Aaron Ernest USA 20.53 (PB) 0.153 3 8 918 Tyreek Hill USA 20.54 . 0.140 4 4 720 Karol Zalewski POL 20.54 (NJ) 0.149 5 3 181 Zhenye Xie CHN 20.66 . 0.168 6 5 336 David Bolarinwa GBR 20.69 (PB) 0.140 7 2 55 Teray Smith BAH 20.99 . 0.146 8 7 514 Julian Forte JAM 21.00 . 0.14 — with Ryan Borntojump Ingraham, Alonzo Trackboiz Aj Russell, Sandra Laing and 47 others.

In the Women 4x100 Metres Relay, Team Bahamas ran in lane 5 made up of Devynne Charlton; Carmiesha Cox; Rashan Brown and Anthonique Strachan, after the second exchange Rashan Brown suffered a hamstring pull Team Bahamas was unable to finish. Heat 1 Position Lane Team Country Mark . 1 7 United States Junior (Morgan Snow; Kali Davis-White; Jennifer Madu; Shayla Sanders) USA 43.95 Q (WJL) 2 4 Netherlands Junior (Miquella Lobo; Tessa van Schagen; Naomi Sedney; Marloes Duijn) NED 44.68 Q (SB) . 8 Australia Junior (Carla Williams; Monica Brennan; Ella Nelson; Ashleigh Whittaker) AUS DQ . . 5 Bahamas Junior (Devynne Charlton; Carmiesha Cox; Rashan Brown; Anthonique Strachan) BAH DNF . . 6 Slovenia Junior (Laura Strajnar; Kaja Debevec; Tina Slejko; Maja Petrovic) SLO DNF . . 3 PR of China Junior () CHN DNS

In the mens 4x100m relays Team Bahamas ran in heat 2 lane 2 and finished second. Team Bahamas will run in the finals tonight out of lane 8. Position Lane Team Country Mark . 1 6 United States Junior (Cameron Burrell; Aldrich Bailey; Arman Hall; Arthur Delaney) USA 39.25 Q (SB) 2 7 Bahamas Junior (Anthony Farrington; Blake Bartlett; Shane Jones; Stephen Newbold) BAH 39.48 Q (NJ) 3 9 Trinidad and Tobago Junior (Jesse Berkley; Jonathan Holder; Ashron Sobers; Jonathan Farinha) TRI 40.01 . 4 3 Germany Junior (Robert Polkowski; Patrick Domogala; Maximilian Ruth; Jonas Lohmann) GER 40.08 (SB) 5 8 Italy Junior (Alessandro Pino; Eseosa Desalu; Giacomo Tortu; Giovanni Galbieri) ITA 40.41 (SB) 6 5 Denmark Junior (Morten Dalgaard Madsen; Andreas Trajkovski; Emil Strom; Frederik Thomsen) DEN 40.60 (NJ) . 4 Finland Junior (Miika Wynne-Ellis; Markus Koivula; Samuli Lehtinen; Eetu Rantala) FIN DQ .