University of Tennessee Athletics
Coleman Earns Bronze At Pan Am Juniors
July 31, 2015 | Track & Field
EDMONTON, Canada -- Tennessee rising sophomore Christian Coleman earned a bronze medal in the men's 100-meter dash at the Pan American Junior Championships on Friday in Edmonton, Canada.
Earlier in the day, Coleman, the reigning SEC Freshman runner of the year, won his semifinal heat with a wind-aided 10.16 (+3.3) to advance the evening's final. Coleman clocked a 10.32 final to earn bronze behind Cuba's Reynier Mena Berenguer (10.17) and fellow American Noah Lyles (10.18).
The Pan American Junior Championships is a biennial event held among athletes from the nations of the Americas in the years preceding and following the Summer Olympic Games. Only athletes aged 19 years or younger are eligible to compete.
Coleman is coming off a stellar freshman campaign that saw him earn the SEC's Indoor Freshman Runner of the Year as well as the league's Co-Freshman of the Year honor for the outdoor season. He was an indoor All-American after finishing sixth in the 60-meter dash at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March, making him UT's first indoor All-American in the 60 meters since Justin Gatlin in 2001. The Atlanta native would go on to score second team All-America honors during the outdoor season, finishing 15th in the National Championships in both the 100 and 200-meter dash.
Coleman qualified for the Pan Am Junior Championships by virtue of a runner-up finish at the 2015 USATF Junior Championships. There, he clocked a career-best and wind-legal time of 10.18 in the finals of the 100-meter dash.
CONGRATS to Christian Coleman on winning bronze in the 100m at the 2015 Pan Am Junior Championships in Edmonton!
Posted by Tennessee Volunteers Track and Field on Friday, July 31, 2015
