Winger finishes third in IAAF Continental Cup javelin to help Team Americas win championship...
Competing for Team Americas along with Laila Ferrer Domingos of Brazil, each of the eight athletes in the field (two per continental team from Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Africa) received three preliminary throws, in which Winger threw 198-0 (60.37m).
After three throws, only the top thrower from each team advanced to the semi-final round (round 4), so Winger was the Americas representative competing against Team Asia/Pacific’s Huihui Lyu of China, Team Europe’s Christin Hussong of Germany, and Team Africa’s Jo-ane Van Dyk of South Africa.
Unlike conventional field event competitions, the marks from the preliminary rounds did not carry over to the semi-final nor the final round.
In the semi-final round, Winger finished third of the four remaining throwers with a throw of 198-1 (60.38m), but was eliminated along with Van Dyk, as both Lyu and Hussong threw further in the round.
Lyu, who had the best overall throw on the day in round 3 of 209-7 (63.88m), took the victory with the best throw in the final round of 189-11 (57.88m) to Hussong’s 180-7 (55.05m).
Despite the experimental nature of the format of the field events in the IAAF Continental Cup, Winger was nonetheless pleased with her performance Sunday in this interview with the IAAF.
In the men’s 110 hurdles, Oregon alum and former Renton resident Devon Allen finished fifth with a time of 13.57, as Team Europe’s Sergey Shubenkov of Russia continued his winning ways, clocking 13.03, while being pressed by Allen’s Americas teammate Ronald Levy of Jamaica, who was second in a season best 13.12.
Several innovations and format changes were tried at the IAAF Continental Cup, including pulling the last runner in the 3000s and steeplechase off the track (think of the devil’s mile commonly run indoors), and finishing the meet with a co-ed 4 x 400 relay.
The Americas won the overall two-day team competition with 262 points. Defending champions Europe finished second with 233 points with Asia-Pacific taking third place (188) ahead of Africa (142).
Complete results from the IAAF Continental Cup are available here.
In New York, Sam Prakel finished 13th, while Matthew Centrowitz was 16th in the invitational section of the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile contested under cool and rainy skies on the streets of Manhattan.
Prakel ran 3:58, while Centrowitz ran 4:01, as Great Britain’s Jake Wightman won in 3:54.
In the women’s race, Camas’ Alexa Efraimson finished fifth in 4:21, while Katie Mackey of the Brooks Beasts was 13th in 4:26.
Former world champion Jenny Simpson won her seventh career 5th Avenue Mile with a time of 4:19.
Complete results of the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile are available here.
NOTE: The IAAF and the New York Road Runners contributed to this report.
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