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LRC Lagat Wins 10,000m Debut In 27:49, Izaic Yorks Beats Pros In 1,500, Courtney Frerichs Dominates Steeple Brief comments on the races and full results on 1 page. *IAAF
- Men’s 10,000m: Lagat Gets Win In 10k Debut The 41-year-old had no trouble kicking away to the win in his 10k track debut.
- Women’s 10,000m: Irene Cheptai Wins With 1 Shoe, Marielle Hall Gets 10k Standard In Debut Many US women hit the Olympic standard, including Kellyn Taylor (31:40) bouncing back from the marathon trials and Alexi Pappas (31:46) and Jordan Hasay (31:58).
- Men’s 5,000m: US Army’s Shadrack Kipchirchir’s Outkicks Brit Andrew Butchart And David Torrence For Win (13:18) Sean McGorty was the first collegian, Chris Derrick struggled in 13:40.
- Women’s 5,000m: Sally Kipyego Only One Under 15:00, Nicole Tully PRs In 2nd (15:04) Jen Rhines US Masters’ Record (15:45)
- Men’s Steeple: Matt Hughes Gets Win (8:22) Over Stanley Kebenie Mason Ferlic got the NCAA lead.
- Women’s Steeple: Courtney Frerichs Of New Mexico Dominates, Becoming 3rd Collegian Under 9:30
- Men’s 1,500m: NCAA Stud Izaic Yorks Gets Comfortable Win In 3:37.74 Over Ingebrigtsen And Jager German Fernandez (3:44) and Matthew Maton (3:45) in heat 3.
- Women’s 1,500m: Aussie Linden Hall Gets Nearly 6-Second PR To Win (4:04) As No One Else Hits Standard Lauren Johnson, Cory McGee, Morgan Uceny and Shelby Houlihan were the first Americans.
*Ella Donaghu Breaks Oregon HH Record With 4:15.28
Heat 2 Women: High Schooler Christina Aragon Wins Heat 2 Of 1,500 In 4:11.24 To Move To #4 All-Time In US For HS
- Men’s 800m: Eliud Rutto Of Middle Tennessee States Powers To Impressive Victory Over Craig Engels Of Mississippi
- Women’s 800m: 800 Newcomer Chrishuna Williams (Formerly Of Arkansas) Gets PR And Win In 2:00.58 Over Fedronic And Vessey
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