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USATF
Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Hayward Field, Eugene,
OR, June 21-24, 2001
Photos
by Alison Wade/www.mensracing.com
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Women's
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Matt
Holthaus took out the pace early on in heat one of the men's
1,500 rounds before fading to a non-qualifying 9th (3:52.54).
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2000
Olympian Jason Pyrah takes the lead, followed by former World
Indoor bronze medalist Erik Nedeau and Andy Downin. Only Downin
advanced to the final.
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Drew
Griffin (#362), Jeremy Huffman (#434) and Nedeau run near
the front with 200m to go.
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High
schooler Alan Webb, took heat one in 3:45.77 with a furious
finishing kick.
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Another
high schooler, Ryan Hall of California, ran in heat two but
had a tough day, running 3:53.03, 11 seconds slower than the
performance that had qualified him for this meet.
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Stanford-bound
Hall (9th, 3:53.03) runs with his future teammate, Gabe Jennings,
the winner of heat two in 3:4080.
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Ibrahim
Aden (4th, 3:41.36) leads Paul McMullen (2nd, 3:41.12) in
heat two. Both advanced to the final
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NCAA
Champion Bryan Berryhill leads heat three (which he won in
3:40. 47) while Don Sage (9th, 3:52.61), Joel Atwater (8th,
3:47.31) and Seneca Lassiter (2nd, 3:41.20) follow.
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Thanks
to Berryhill's rapid frontrunning style, heat three had the
4 of the 6 time qualifiers with Berryhill, Lassiter, Michael
Stember, Clay Schwabe, Nick McFalls and Christian Hesch all
advancing.
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The
10,000m final gets underway with 2000 Olympians Alan Culpepper
and Abdi Abdirahman setting the pace.
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Hanson's
James Jurcevich (14th, 30:19) and Team USA Southern California's
Matt Downin (6th, 29:17.45) run side by side.
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Coming
off the back stretch at Hayward field, Culpepper, Abdirahman,
Downin, etc. follow leader Mebrahtom
Keflezighi (not pictured).
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In
a race that featured many lead changes among Abdirahman, Culpepper
and Keflezighi, Abdirahman takes the lead here and manages
to keep it.
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Abdirahman
widens his lead.
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Weldon
Johnson (with Downin), running in a singlet plugging his web
site -- www.letsrun.com
-- had a great race here, moving up to snag fourth (29:01.40).
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With
a few laps to go, Abdirahman was clearly confident of his
hances for victory, gesturing to some of his friends in the
crowd.
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Abdirahman
said after the race that he figured it was his chance to win
this title after Culpepper took it in 1999 and Keflezighi
took it in 2000.
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