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closeFormer Cal Poly star Sharon Day sures love to high jump at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Day finished third tonight in the women's high jump at the U.S. Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field, equalling her personal record of 6 feet, 4 3/4 inches to automatically qualify for the world championships in Berlin in August.
A year ago, Day finished third at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, also at Hayward Field, to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.
Chaunte Howard, Amy Acuff and Day all cleared 6-4 3/4 in tonight's competition, so the placing order came down to misses. Howard cleared 6-4 3/4 on her first attempt to get the win, Acuff cleared it on her second attempt for second and Day on her third attempt to finish third.
All three then missed all three of their tries at the next height, 6-5 1/2.
Howard, Acuff and Day also finished 1-2-3, respectively, at last year's Olympic Trials.
Day will have an opportunity to earn a world championship berth in a second event later this week. She will be competing in the heptathlon Saturday and Sunday and has the top mark in the U.S. entering the competition.
Still to come tonight, Stephanie Brown Trafton, the Olympic gold medalist from Beijing, seeks her first national title in the women's discus.
Another former Cal Poly star, Ben Bruce, will be in the first round of the men's 3,000 steeplechase later tonight.
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