Carmelita Jeter runs 10.67 in WAF! note by Larry Eder, stats by K. Ken Nakamura

Carmelita Jeter, qualifying heats, WAC 2009, August 2009, photo by PhotoRun.net.
Carmelita has won the WAF 100 meter final with the time of 10.67! Into a headwind! What way to end the season! Putting it together in the WAF at the end of the year is pretty amazing!
K. Ken Nakamura, one of our favorite track experts, emailed some additional facts, on Jeter’s performance: “Carmelita Jeter’s time at WAF, 10.67 into 0.1m/s head wind, is the fastest time ever into the headwind. The previous record was 10.70 by Marion Jones in 1999 World Championships in Sevilla.”
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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