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>>Kudos to USATF for affirming the monumental 400 hurdle race 
>>by Kerron Clement, a high school junior (!) from La Porte, Texas. His
49.77 at the Junior 
>>Olympics finally erases the legendary 49.8 (hand-timed) altitude mark
by Shawnee Mission North's Bob >>Bornkessel at South Lake Tahoe during
the final Olympic Trials of August 1968.


Finally?  Bornkessel's record had already been erased a week earlier by
Kenneth Ferguson's 49.38 in the World Juniors in Jamaica.  Ferguson of
course was second to Clement at Omaha in 49.83, which is also superior
to Bornkessel's hand time.  




John Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DyeStat - the Internet home of high school track
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