JUNIOR LADIES ELIMINATION RESULTS

USA's Mariah Richardson after finishing her 300-meter time trial.

It’s only 10:47am and it must be close to 95-98 degrees. The sweat is running down my back like the shower I took this morning!!

As is customary (as my host family keeps telling me), the World Championships in Colombia started one hour later than scheduled. Good thing as Ananda and I had a very hard time finding a place to “stand” as Press. Although they have given us a press bracelet, they do not allow us to go everywhere the “real” press gets to go! But just wait, we are pushy Americans. LOL

Junior World Class Ladies just finished their first Time Trial. With Alexandra Harris (Virginia) and Mariah Richardson (North Carolina) representing USA. We missed the first few skaters that included Alex. We apologize to Alex, as I know she skated her heart out.

Currently we have the young skater #12 from Chinese Taipei is currently in first (remember we missed the first few skaters) with a time of 27.54 followed by Argentina #3 with a time of 27.61. Mariah Richardson had a time of 28.07.

It is official… just announced the following placements:

1 - #12 C.T
2 - # 3 Argentina
3 - # 14 C.T.
4 - # 4 Argentina
5 - #21 Colombia
6 - #662 Korea
7 - #16 Colombia
8 - # 47 Italy
9 - #69 USA – Mariah Richardson
10 - #63 South Korea
11 - #65 Spain
12 - # 30 – India

Again there is no information currently available to us to tell you who these skaters are by name. Please bare with us as we beg and borrow for this information. The top twelve skaters will compete tonight in the finals of the 300-meter time trial. They will skate in inverse order this evening (meaning that 12th will skate first). Anything can happen as we have seen in the past. Good luck to Mariah.

Linda