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NAIROBI, July 13-- China won their first gold medal on the second day of the World U18 Championship in Nairobi through Liu Zhekai, who set a personal best throw of 77.54 meters. It was the third medal for China after having won two medals, a silver and a bronze on the first day on Monday. Another Chinese athlete Song Qingshu also won bronze in the boys' javelin to take the Asian giants medal tally to four. South Africa's Johannes Schlebusch won silver in a personal best throw of 75.68 meters. Germany leads the medal table with two gold and one bronze medals with South Africa second with four medals - One gold, two silver and one bronze. However, the day's highlight came in the final track event of the day, the boys' 110m hurdles heats. Running in the first heat, De'Jour Russell of Jamaica took his personal best from 13.31 (already a world-U18-leading time this year) all the way to 13.08. The time made him the second fastest U18 athlete of all time, behind his compatriot Jaheel Hyde's world U18 best of 12.96. None of the other hurdlers came close to Russell's performance, but there were other notable runs, including the remaining heat winners: Enrique Llopis of Spain with 13.47 (a personal best by 0.25), Lu Hao-hua of Chinese Taipei with 13.57 and Saoud Al-Humaidi of Qatar with 13.72. The early exit of Zayed Al Shamsi of the United Arab Emirates was also notable. The third fastest U18 athlete this year with 13.43 finished only sixth in his heat in 14.70 and was eliminated. | 
