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Wichita State javelin thrower and Ark City native wins junior national championship

The championship was won after the first throw.

With his first throw of the day, Wichita State freshman Taran Taylor secured the javelin title at the USATF Junior Championships with a mark of 233 feet, 2 inches over the weekend in Bloomington, Ind.

The victory qualifies Taylor to the 2018 IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland on July 10-15.

"I knew going in that I needed a good one in my first three throws to put pressure on everybody else," Taylor said. "Whenever I hit that first throw, I knew it was a good one.