(Kirby Lee/For the Press-Telegram)
The former Quite FIre and current Together Elite athlete Akawkaw Ndipagbor qualifies for the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships.
Akawkaw Ndipagbor and Shelise Williams earned a trip to the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in the women’s 400 meters in the USA Track & Field Junior Championships at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium at Ohio State on Sunday.
Ndipagbor, a Poly High freshman, placed third in 53.62 and Williams, a Wilson graduate who attends the University of Arkansas, was fourth in 53.65.
The top two finishers earned spots on the U.S. team for the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on July 8-13.
Ndipagbor’s third-place finish was the latest accolade in a stellar freshman year. Ndipagbor, the fastest middle school athlete in the 400 in the nation as an eighth grader, won the Southern Section Division I, Masters Meet and the state title in a state season-leading 53.35.
Ndipagbor ran the fifth-best qualifying time of 54.17 after a conservative start in the prelims on Friday to advance to the final. The race turned into a duel between Beard and Whittaker for the top two spots with Ndipagbor and Williams in the running for third.
Ndipagbor’s third-place finish was the latest accolade in a stellar freshman year. Ndipagbor, the fastest middle school athlete in the 400 in the nation as an eighth grader, won the Southern Section Division I, Masters Meet and the state title in a state season-leading 53.35.
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[...] Akawkaw Ndipagbor (TOGETHER Youth Elite Track & Field Team) captured two individual titles on the day in the intermediate girls 400m and 100m, clocking 53.76 and 12.05 respectively. On Saturday Ndipagbor took third in the 200m in 24.22. Ndipagbor’s wins reflected her performances at the 2007 competition, where she took first in the youth girls 100m and 400m. [...]