2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials — Track & FieldHayward Field, Eugene, OR |
Women's 10,000 Meters  Amy Yoder-Begley (leading) took third place in a personal-record 31:43.60. Kara Goucher (second here) was the runner-up in 31:37.72, and Shalane Flanagan (in third) took command on the final lap to win in 31:34.81, a stadium record. |
Men's 100 Meters  Exhibiting perfect form, Tyson Gay beat a world-class field to win in 9.68, the fastest time ever run. A 4.1-meters-per-second tailwind kept the time from qualifying as a world record, but Gay served notice that he’ll be ready for Jamaica’s world record-holder, Usain Bolt, in Beijing.
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Women's 800 Meters  Hazel Clark set a blistering pace won in 1:59:82, followed by Alice Schmidt in 2:00:46 and Kameisha Bennett in 2:01:20. Nicole Teter, who finished fourth in 2:01:30, will go to Beijing because she has attained the Olympic "A" standard (2:00.00) and Bennett has not.
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Men's 800 Meters In a sweep by Oregonians, Nick Symmonds (center) and Andrew Wheating (far left) kicked hard to finish 1-2; Christian Smith (far right) dove at the line to take third by an eyelash. All three ran personal records, and the home crowd may have set a record for decibel level. |
Men's 5000 Meters  Bernard Lagat, who medaled for Kenya in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, will represent the United States in Beijing: He won in 13:27.47. Lagat will be joined by Matt Tegenkamp (second) and Ian Dobson (third); he'll try to add the 1500 meter title on Sunday, July 6.
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Women's 3000-meter Steeplechase  Anna Willard of Ann Arbor, MI, won in a new American-record time of 9:27.59. Lindsey Anderson (second in 9:30.75) and 2008 NCAA champion Jennifer Barringer (third in 9:33.11) completed the team for this event, which will be on the Olympic program for the first time in Beijing.
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 Lesley Higgins, an NYRR member who competes for the New York Athletic Club, ran 10:04.04 to finish 13th in Thursday night's steeplechase final. Higgins balances top-level training with 50-hour work weeks in the office of New York Governor David Patterson. |
Men's Masters 3000 Meters  NYRR was well represented in this exhibition (non-Olympic) event for athletes 40 and older. Armando Oliveira (in front, above) of the Nike Central Park Track Club finished 10th in 9:05.19, and his teammate Neil Fitzgerald, a masters 800-meter champion, was 16th in 9:44.75.
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Women's 5000 meters  Kara Goucher turned the tables on 10,000-meter winner Shalane Flanagan, outkicking her to win in 15:01.02 as both women became two-event Olympic qualifiers. Flanagan finished third behind Jen Rhines, who made her third Olympic team (in three different events).
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Men's 10,000 Meters  Abdi Abdirahman, Galen Rupp, and Jorge Torres (left to right) earned Olympic spots on July 4. Abdirahman led virtually wire-to-wire and pulled away from Rupp on the last lap to make his third U.S team in this event. |
Men's 3000-Meter Steeplechase  Anthony Famiglietti of Long Island, an NYRR member who trains in Central Park, took it out hard and held off late challenges to win the final in 8:20.24 and make his second Olympic team.
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Men's 1500 Meters  Bernard Lagat ran 3:40.37 to add the 1500-meter title to his earlier 5000-meter victory. Leonel Manzano (right, in blue) and Lopez Lomong (left, in sunglasses) completed an all-foreign-born U.S. 1500-meter team for Beijing. Alan Webb (far left) was fifth and failed to qualify.
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| Kudos to local runners Terry Ballou and Janice Reid, members of the Millrose Athletic Association, who competed in the women’s masters 200 meters exhibition at the Olympic Trials on Saturday, July 5. Ballou took fifth in 27.77 and Reid took sixth in 27.91 | ||
