Abdi Abdi, Ryan Hall Lead US Contingent at US Road 10k Champs in Atlanta by: USATF July 2, 2007
INDIANAPOLIS - 2007 10,000 meter track champion Abdi Abdirahman
(Tucson, Ariz.) leads the men's field for the USA Men's 10 km
Championship on Wednesday, July 4, in Atlanta. The championships are
hosted by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution Peachtree Road Race.
Abdirahman,
who won his third track title last week at the AT&T USA Outdoor
Track & Field Championships in Indianapolis, will face-off with
2007 USA Half-Marathon Champion and American Record holder Ryan Hall
(Big Bear Lake, Calif.); 2006 USA 25 km champion and American Record
holder Fernando Cabada (Bloomington, Ind.), and Brian Sell (Rochester
Hills, Mich.), the 2006 USA Half-Marathon champion.
Also
in contention for the title will be James Carney (Boulder, Colo.), who
holds the fifth fastest 10,000 meter performance (27:43.64) for an
American this year; Fasil Bizuneh (Flagstaff, Ariz.), a member of the
2007 Team USA squad for the World Cross Country Championships, and 2002
USA Men's 10 km champion Ryan Kirkpatrick (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
A total prize purse of $30,000 will be paid to U.S. men with $10,000 going to the champion.
Celebrating its 38th running, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race is the largest 10 km race in the world.
USA Running Circuit
The
2007 USA Men's 10 km Championship is the fifth event for men in the
2007 edition of USA Track & Field's 2006 USA Running Circuit
(USARC).
The USARC, a USA Track & Field road
series, features USA Championships from 5 km to the marathon and
attracts the best U.S. distance runners. The thirteenth edition for the
men and twelfth for the women, the 2007 USARC has nine events for men
and seven events for women.
The first ten U.S.
runners earn points at each USARC race (15 for first, 12 for second, 10
for third, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1), with a final $12,500 grand prix
purse ($6000, $4000, and $2500) for the top three men and women point
scorers overall. The USARC points at the USA Marathon Championships
will be doubled.
The mission of the USA Running
Circuit is to showcase, support, and promote U.S. runners. Since its
inception in 1995, the USARC and its races have provided over $4
million dollars to U.S. distance runners.
For more information on the 2007 USA Men's 10 km Championship and the 2007 USARC, visit www.usatf.org.
