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Hannah Willms 5th in High Jump; Alex Gochenhour 10th in Heptathlon at IAAF Junior World Games
Moncton, Canada - Two of this past season best Iowa high school track and field athletes qualified and this week met the best junior athletes in the world at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada. Hannah Willms qualified for the finals in the high jump with leap of 5-09.25 on Saturday. Willms cleared all four of her attempts and tied three other with the top qualifying jump. On Sunday Willms best jump was 1.82 meters of 5-10 which was good for a fifth place finish overall. The Dike-New Hartford graduate will play volleyball at Iowa State in the fall. Alex Gochenhour finished tenth in the Heptathlon where twenty-five of the worlds best junior athletes competed. Gochenhour will be a senior next year at Logan-Magnolia high school. Dafine Schippers of the Netherlands won the competition with 5,967 points. Gochenhour totaled 5,260 points. Listed below are the results involving Willms and Gochenhour. IAAF World Junior Championships
High Jump Qualifying Results
1-Hannah Willms, United States, Dike-New Hartford graduate - 1.81 (5-09.25)
1-Hanne Van Hessech, Belguim - 1.81
1-Elena Vallortigara, Italy - 1.81
1-Sietske Noorman, Netherlands - 1.81
5-Amy Pejkovic, Australia - 1.78
6-Deborah Broderson, Germany - 1.78
7-Isobel Pooley, Great Britian - 1.78
7-Agnieszka Bukpwczyk, Poland - 1.78
7-Marusa Cernjul, Slovania - 1.78
10-Leontia Kallenou, Cyprus - 1.78
11-Katarina Mogenburg, Norway - 1.78
12-Cristina Ferrando, Spaing - 1.74
12-Keeley O'Hagen, New Zealand - 1.74
14-Lisa Egater, Austria - 1.74
15-Alyxandria Treasure, Canada - 1.70
High Jump Finals Results
1-Marija Vukovic, Montenegro - 1.91
2-Airine Palsyst, Liechtenstein - 1.89
3-Elena Vallortigara, Italy - 1.89
4-Hanne Van Hessesche, Belgium - 1.86
5-Hannah Willms, United States, Dike-New Hartford graduate - 1.82
6-Sietske Noorman, Netherlands - 1.82
7-Victoria Dronsfield, Sweden - 1.78
8-Amy Pejkovic, Australia - 1.78
9-Elizabeth Lamb, New Zealand - 1.78
10-France Paul, France - 1.78
11-Chaira Vitobello, Italy - 1.73
12-Michalina Kwasiewska, Poland - 1.73
Heptathlon Results - Top 10
1-Dafine Schippers, Netherland - 5,967
2-Sara Gambetta, Germany - 5,770
3-Helga Margret Thorsteindottir, Iceland - 5,706
4-Grete Sadeiko, Estonia - 5,705
5-Tilia Udelhoven, Germay - 5,677
6-Laura Ikauniece, Latvia - 5,618
7-Xenia Krizsan, Hungary - 5,594
8-Linda Treisel, Estonia - 5,453
9-Martina Salander, Sweden, 5,446
10- Alex Gochenhour, United States, Logan-Magnolia High School - 5,260
 Alex Gochenhour (Logan-Magnolia High School)
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