Cayla Hatton 4th at World Juniors !

 

Today at the World Jr. Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Cayla Hatton, the recent Phillips Andover Academy graduate and Farmington, Conn. native, established a New England High School record, finishing fourth in the 5,000 meters championship race. Hatton's time, 15:50.32, betters the previous New England record of 16:00.4, set by Dover, New Hampshire's Cathy Schiro at the Boston College Relays in '85. Schiro's record had stood for 27 years.
 
Hatton now becomes the No. 2 all-time US High School performer in the event, trailing only Emily Sisson [Chesterfield, MO] who ran 15:48.91 in 2010. Sisson, a Providence College junior, finished 12th this year in the 5000 meters at the US Olympic Track and Field Trials earlier this month.
 
The race was won by Ethiopia's Buze Diriba in 15:32.94, just one-thousand of a second ahead of her countrywoman Ruti Aga. Kenya's Agnes Jebet Tirop was third
 
This was Hatton's second New England record of the year. On March 31 she set the 10,000 meter mark with a clocking of 33:17.28 at the Tufts Snowflake Invitational. Hatton's time also establishes a new Eastern Track record for the event, according to Walt Murphy, editor and publisher of Eastern Track. Schiro had previously held the Eastern Track record.
 
Larry Newman/Netrack
Results courtesy of IAAF
 
 
1 1214 Buze Diriba  ETH 15:32.94 .
2 1211 Ruti Aga  ETH 15:32.95 (PB)
3 1417 Agnes Jebet Tirop  KEN 15:36.74 (PB)
4 1744 Cayla Hatton  USA 15:50.32 (PB)
5 1419 Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui  KEN 15:58.10 .
6 1582 Alena Kudashkina  RUS 16:05.64 .
7 1539 Monica Madalina Florea  ROU 16:08.07 (PB)
8 1775 Allison Woodward  USA 16:08.29 (PB)
9 1687 Nancy Cheptegei  UGA 16:15.49 (PB)
10 1133 Xufeng Wu  CHN 16:19.84 .
11 1408 Shiori Yano  JPN 16:21.29 .
12 1400 Moe Kyuma  JPN 16:21.36 .
13 1125 Zhixuan Li  CHN 16:24.29 (PB)
14 1430 Doyeon Kim  KOR 16:27.62 .
15 1466 Irene van Lieshout  NED 16:38.68 .
16 1467 Jip Vastenburg  NED 16:47.32 .
17 1538 Anca Maria Bunea  ROU 16:51.53 .
18 1486 Aminata Olowoora  NGR 17:59.79 .
. 1264 Emelia Gorecka  GBR DNS