CARTER SHATTERS STANFORD HURDLES RECORD

April 6, 2013



CARTER SHATTERS STANFORD HURDLES RECORD



Stanford junior runs fastest time in the world this year



TUCSON, Ariz. – Stanford junior Kori Carter ran the 400-meter hurdles in 54.71 seconds at the Jim Click Shootout track and field meet on Saturday, shattering her own school record while running the fastest time in the world this year.



Carter outdueled Arizona’s Georganne Moline, the defending Pac-12 champion and a 2012 Olympic finalist, who was second in 54.98 at University of Arizona’s Roy P. Drachman Stadium. Both achieved the ‘A’ standard (55.40) for the World Championships, to be held in Moscow, Russia, in August.



Carter crushed her Stanford standard of 57.10, which she set at the 2011 Pac-10 Championships in Eugene, Ore. Carter holds every school indoor and outdoor hurdles record and, though she is the defending Pac-12 champion in the 100 hurdles, Stanford coaches believe her future is in the 400 hurdles. She seemed to prove them right in her season debut in the event.



Two other Stanford women were meet winners – Justine Fedronic in the 800 and Brianna Bain in the javelin. Fedronic ran 2:03.93 in her season debut in that event to close within 0.4 of her school record and edged freshman teammate Amy Weissenbach, whose 2:05.39 placed her second and made her the No. 7 performer in school history.



Bain, the 2012 NCAA runner-up and Pac-12 champion, made her season debut with a winning throw of 158-10.



In all, Stanford achieved school all-time Top 10 marks in five events. In addition to Carter and Weissenbach, Alyssa Wisdom reached her outdoor best of 53-6¼ to move into No. 4 on the list while finishing fourth in the women’s shot put. And Jules Sharpe achieved an outdoor best of 7-1½ to move into a tie for fifth on the all-time men’s high jump list while placing third.



In addition, Stanford’s 4x400 women’s relay team of Carissa Levingston, Carter, Fedronic, and Kristyn Williams placed second with a time of 3:35.11 to move into No. 10 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list.



For more information, contact:



David Kiefer

Assistant Athletic Communications Director

Stanford University

dkiefer@stanford.edu

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