Mike Powell Wins Men's Long JumD
NTiKe Powell hccci> hi'oti\ at.-m
tor historic ;<>ng jumps. It help> if n
comes from Carl, Lewis e\er? it's,
out of Lew in pa*!.
With Lewis running ? and los
ing ? the 2QCJ at about the same
time, there was no one. else around
to pro\ ide it and Powell in his mind
turned to his old ri\ al.?
On his last try, Powell pro
duced a jump of 8.59 meters to sea!
his second straight world title.
It wasn't a history-making
jump, but at least it put some luster
on an otherwise bland competition
where the winner seemed certain
from the start. Still, it was the sec
ond longest of the year, afier Pow
ell's own 8.70.
I didn't want to have the
worst winning jump in World
Championships history so I had to
beat Carl's ft. 55," he said.
Lewis won the title in 19X3 by
jumping 8.55 and again in Rome by
getting H.67.r- ? T ?
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But in Tokyo, Powell stole the
show and became the sensation of
the meet when he beat Bob Bea
mon's 23-year-old mark and set the
world record at" 8.95.
Lewis revenged himself at the
1992 Barcelona Olympics, where
Powell had to settle for the silver.
No one was threatening Powell
Friday night.
"1 didn't exactly set things on
firtL like_Ucl99 L' ' Powell said.
"'It's been that way all year ~
"The object is to have the
longest jump of the competition. No
one^ wu.s jumping far this year. If
anyone was jumping 8.60, 8.70
tonight, I would have had to jump
longer," he said.
"I had to find some motivation
for ray last, jump, so 1 tried to beat
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Mike Powell bites his gold medal after winning the long jump.
Carl's 8.55 in Helsinki.'
"Every time you win a world
championship you have to he
happy. I'll he smiling just as in
Tokyo " Powell said.
Powell fouled in his first jump,
took the lead with his second
attempt of K.I 6 and hit a big one
orriy in his last jump.
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He was already comfortably in
the lead after his fifth jump of 8.43.
His last and longest leap only con
firmed his victory.
"I wanted to have a big one in
.the first and then have tun." said
the 29-year-old. "But when 1
fouled, I just wanted to get a legal
jump in the second."
Stanislaw-Tarasenko oi kussia
clinched the silver medal with a leap
of 8. 16, just edging Vital) Kirilenko
of Ukraine, who had to settle for the
bronze with a personal best of X. 1 5.
Erick Walder, the second
American in the final, finished
fourth at 8.05. although he came
into the meet trailing only Powell on
this year's lists.
School
Bowie State
W-S State
CIAA September Schedule
9/4 9/11 9/18 9/25
(a NC Central
"UK) pm
(aEiizabeth Cit\
1 :30 pm
Elizabeth City State W-S State"'
1 :30 pm
Fa\etteville State
Hampton
Johnson C. Smith
(a Delaw ire State
2 pm
@ Livingstone*
1:30
@ Morehouse1**
1 :30 pm
Hampton"
I :00 pm
NC A&T State
7:00 pm
@Fayetteville*
7 pm
Elizabeth City*
7 pm
@Bowie State"
1pm
@Glenville State
1:30 pm
So. Connecticut
1 00 pm
(a Howard
1 :30 pm
Edinboro. PA
1 :3() pm
Norfolk State*
7 pm
Virginia Union"
7 pm
@B-Cookman
2 pm
Virginia State
1 :30 pm
(?Livingston*
1 :30 pm
@ Norfolk State*
7 pm
(SCheyney
1 pm
Grambling State
7pn)
NC Central*
7:30 pm
Livingstone
Norfolk State
North Carolina
Central
Virginia Union
? Virginia State
Hampton*
1:30 pm
Virginia State*^
7 pm
Bowie State
7 pm
@ Howard
1 pm
@ Norfolk*
7 pm
Virginia L'nion*&
2 pm
@NC Central*
7 pm
Norfolk State*
7 pm
@Livingstone*&
2 pm
@W. Liberty
1 pm
@ Central State
2 pm
@Fayetteville*
7 pm
(?Virginia State*!
1 :30 pm
@ Hampton*
7 pm
NC Central*
1 :30 pm
W-S State*
1 :30 pm
Elizabeth City*
7 pm ,
@JC Smith*
7:30 pm
Morgan State
7 pm
Bowie State*
1:30 pm
Legend: *=CLAA Game; **=Designated CIAA Game; %=?abor Day
NC; S-Gold Bowl. Richmond, VA; !-Fish Bowl, Portsmouth. VA; #=
++=Battle of the Bay
Classic; &-Sportsman's Classic, Wilmington,
= Whitney Young Classic, Meadowlands,.NJ;
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Hampton University-Pirates Strut theirii
t Stuff in Pre-season Final Scrimmage ??
In the final scrimmage before
| the regular season. Humpton Uni
versity's junior quarterback Matt
Montgomery was in great form.
"! ~ ? Montgomery completed 1 1 of
j 27 passes for 237 yards and three
I touchdowns. "His performance was <
j super. He is a super leader and it
I showed." said Pirate head coach Joe
Taylor.
Montgomery's prime target was
j junior split-end Fmmitt Taliaferro,
who finished with three receptions
for 82 yards and one touchdown.
His big play was a 64 yard touch
down reception, which was the first
score of the day.
The bright spot of the rushing
game was senior fullback Todd
Harvey, with 68 yards on 10 carries.
f rj*s. hman Anihonv Smith and
sophomore Kevin White were also
impressive. Smith finished with 1 1
carries for 58 yards and one touch
down. White had scoring runs of
two and six yards and also pulled a
62-yard touchdown reception from
Montgomery.
Junior defensive tackle Josh
Austin had an outstanding day with
three solos, two tackles for 13 yards
In losses and two quarterback sacks,
ohn Meredith had two solos and
five assists; Corey Swinson, three
solos, two assists and one quarter
back sack^ and Hugh Hunter was
also impressive with three solos. .
two assists and one quarterback
sack.
"We showed defensively, that
we had" the quickness that should
keep us in every game," concluded
Taylor.
The Pirates open the season
this Saturday at Livingston College
in Salisbury .
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