100 METERS
Heats, Semifinals and Final, Wednesday.
Gold: Prezel Hardy (1999).
Silver: Bryan Sears (1999), Willie Hardge (2001).
Bronze: Jonathan Wade (2001), Kenneth Gilstrap (2007).
Micaiah Harris (pictured) of Western Branch (Chesapeake, Va.) was just twenty-fourth on the list of U.S. athletes who had bettered the IAAF qualifying standard for the 100 meters but that did not deter him from winning the U.S. Trials. Running into a 1.2 meter per second wind, he set a personal best of 10.68. Daniel Estrada of Northwest Guilford (Greensboro, N.C.) was second in 10.74. Earlier in the year he had won the State 4A title and two weeks before he had run a wind-aided 10.46. The challenge of reaching the final is a tough one for the two runners but not impossible. In the past a time of 10.82 has reached the final. The world leader is Abdul Hakim Sani Brown of Japan with a best of 10.30 but history suggest that Derick Silva of Brazil with a best of 10.38, Javan Martin of the Bahamas, at 10.41 and Akanni Hislop of Trinidad-Tobacco at 10.47 will bare close watching. Two others of note are Jack Hale of Australia at 10.50 and 10.42w and Rechmial Miller of Great Britain, at 10.50 and 10.35.