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NCAA
OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BATON ROUGE, LA, MAY
29-JUNE 1, 2002
ALL
PHOTOS ALISON WADE/NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS
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DAY
ONE: PAGE ONE | PAGE
TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE
FOUR (800m Preliminaries, Steeplechase Preliminaries)
DAY TWO: PAGE ONE | PAGE
TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE
FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE
SIX (1,500m Preliminaries, 10,000m Final)
DAY THREE: PAGE ONE |
PAGE TWO | PAGE
THREE (800m Final, Steeplechase Final)
DAY FOUR: PAGE ONE | PAGE
TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE
FOUR (1,500m Final, 5,000m Final)
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Josh
Spiker, Alan Webb and James Bowler at the start.
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300
meters in, Charlie Gruber of Kansas leads.
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R-L:
Gruber, Bowler, Dalibor Balgac, Sean O'Brien, Tom
Parlapiano, Gabe Jennings and Grant Robison.
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R-L:
Parlapiano, Webb, Jennings and Robison bring up the
back of the pack.
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Nearly
700 meters into the race, the pack has bunched up
again and it's clear that this won't be the faster
of the two heats.
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Gruber
continues to lead with 800 meters to go.
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Parlapiano,
Webb, Jennings and Robison hang out in the back of
the pack.
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The
pack heads around the first turn.
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L-R:
Brendon Mahoney, Spiker, Webb, Parlapiano, Robison,
Jennings and Gruber.
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With
one lap to go, ten runners together and only four
automatic qualifying spots available, it's anyone's
race.
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As
they came down the home stretch, it looked like the
100-meter final as the runners stretched out across
five lanes.
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#764
Grant Robison won the race in 3:45.11, all ten runners
finished within half a second.
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The
qualifiers, in addition to Robison, were Gruber (3:45.13),
Webb (3:45.14), O'Brien (3:45.18) and Spiker (3:45.19).
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Josh
Spiker and Sean O'Brien leaned at the finish, putting
them both in the final. Gabe Jennings did not lean
and missed out on a qualifying spot by .03.
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O'Brien
leaned so far that he fell to the track as he crossed
the finish line. He remained there for a moment but
was able to get up and walk away without assistance.
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Heat
winner Grant Robison of Stanford.
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The
start of the men's 10,000 meter final, Ryan Shay of
Notre Dame, the defending champion, leads.
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Edwardo
Torres of Colorado runs in the pack.
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Teren
Jameson of Utah also runs in the pack.
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Louis
Luchini leads Donnie Fellows, Joep Tigchelaar, Mike
Wisniewski and Ian Dobson.
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