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USATF News & Notes
Volume 3, Number 77 August 8, 2002
2002 NACAC Championships set to begin
The 2002 POWERade North America Central America & Caribbean (NACAC) Under-25
Track and Field Championships are set to kick off August 9-11 at Trinity
University in San Antonio, Texas.
Olympic silver medalist Terrence Trammell and 2002 U.S. Outdoor champions
James Carter and Yuliana Perez lead Team USA against international teams
from around the region.
“Having athletes of this caliber committed to the NACAC championship sets
the stage for a terrific meet,” said Dr. Susan Blackwood, executive director
of the San Antonio Sports Foundation, host of the event. “Spectators can
expect to witness world-class competition in San Antonio.”
The 2002 POWERade NACAC Under-25 Track and Field Championships are hosted by
the San Antonio Sports Foundation and sanctioned by NACAC Athletic
Association and USA Track & Field.
Tickets cost $10 per day or $20 for a three-day event pass. Children under
eight are admitted free of charge with a ticketed adult. Tickets are
available at www.sanantoniosports.org or through the Sports Foundation at
210-820-2101.
For more news and information on the NACAC Championships, visit
www.usatf.org.
Jones and Pintusevich-Block go head to head
Olympic 100m gold medalist and two-time World champion Marion Jones will
soon race against the woman who beat her last year at the World
championships. Going head to head for the first time in 2002, Jones and
Ukrainian Zhanna Pintusevich-Block will take their starting blocks at the
Norwich Union Grand Prix at Crystal Palace in London on August 23.
Jones was clocked in 10.84 seconds on July 19 in Monaco, which was the World
’s best performance of the year before Pintusevich-Block bettered the mark
to 10.83 the following day.
Jones and Pintusevich-Block will not run alone, as all five of the World’s
best 100m sprinters so far this year are scheduled to be in the race.
Rounding out the world-class field are 2001 U.S. Outdoor champion Chryste
Gaines, Bahamian Commonwealth Games winner Debbie Ferguson and Jamaican
Tayna Lawrence.
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