A fantastic fourth for Justine
Justine in action at the World Champs in Italy
Larry Bentley
ESHOWE’S top athlete Justine Palframan has returned from the IAAF World Youth Athletic 2009 Championships with a fourth place in the 400m.
She narrowly missed the finals in the 200m.
The championship took place from 8-12 July in the town of Bressanone/Brixon near the Austrian border in northern Italy where the top youth athletes from 170 countries gathered. Justine finished third in the 200m semi-finals in a time of 24.17 seconds, but unfortunately only the first two of the three semi-finalists and the two best losers went through to the final.
In the 400m, Justine won her first heat and came third in the semi-final, good enough to get her through to the final.
She ran a time of 54.55 seconds in the final to finish fourth.