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Mitchell, Alums Take on World's Best
August 24, 2007 | Track and Field
Aug. 24, 2007
NORMAN, Okla. - University of Oklahoma senior Jacobi Mitchell and three former Sooners take to the track against the best in the world beginning this weekend at the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan.
Mitchell and OU alums Michael Blackwood, Laverne Jones and Danny McFarlane end their impressive 2007 track and field seasons at the meet.
McFarlane is making his seventh trip to the World Championships. Blackwood has run at the meet three times and Jones twice. It is the first appearance for Mitchell.
McFarlane starts first in the 400-meter hurdles preliminary heats Saturday, Aug. 25. Fellow Jamaican Blackwood runs the 400-meter dash, Tuesday, Aug. 28.
Mitchell, a 2007 NCAA All-American and Pan American Games qualifier, will represent his native Bahamas in the 200-meter dash. The preliminary heats for the event run Tuesday, Aug. 28.
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Jones, a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands, will be the last of the quartet to begin her quest for gold when she runs the 200-meter dash preliminaries Wednesday, Aug. 29.
The IAAF World Athletics Championships have been held every two years since 1991. They began with a four-year interval in 1983 at Helsinki, Finland.
For more on the World Championships, visit IAAF.org.
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