Armstrong, Ellerton, Felicien and Klaas top-out Harry Jerome Classic in Vancouver
03.07.2011 World
Burnaby, B.C. Canada - Many of Canada’s finest track and field athletes marked their 1 July national holiday with memorable performances at the Harry Jerome International Track Classic in Vancouver on Friday (1).
Strong fields of competitors from 16 countries produced one meet record and several Canadians achieved IAAF World Championship standards.
No one was more thrilled than Andrew Ellerton of Sudbury Ontario, who took the lead in the men’s 800 metres on the homestretch and held off American 20-year-old phenom Cas Loxsom to win in 1:45.04. The time was more than a second better than his previous personal best, and he might have gone even faster if not for a stumble with 30 metres to go. Loxsom finished second in 1:45.28, and Richard Jones of the U.S. was third in 1:45.56. Also notable was seventh-place Kefri Neil, whose 1:49.43 clocking places him third among North American high schoolers.
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