Enttire 2009 Prefontaine Classic start list: Let's have fun pick your winners

Men's 3k and women's 1500 are freaking ridiculous. Shaheen and Willard for those.

Anyone know what kind of shape Shannon Rowbury is in?

women's pole vault? looks like that is missing

Willard is a great runner, but... look at who is in the race, the Olympic gold medalist in the 1500 as well as Gelete Burka who just ran sub 4 last week.

I'm excited to see the first Willard/Barringer showdown with Rowbury there as well (and curious as to what Flanagan will run).

I'm guessing it is 3000 meters and not 2000 like it says for the women? This race looks absolutely stacked too. Kara Goucher, interesting to see she runs marathons and then last week did an 800/1500 double and now the 3k. Another great race with Cheruiyot as well as Masai who took down Dibaba last weekend. Kipyego also there...

Interesting to see Arianna Lambie as well, now training with Salazar.

Men

400 Hurdles.....Kerron Clement

800m............Yuriy B.

Bowerman Mile...Haron Keitany over Leo

3000m...........Bernard Lagat does he really wants it

steeple.........Paul Koech

Shot Put........Reese Hoffa

High Jump.......Andrey Silnov to lose

Long Jump.......Irving edges Dwight Phillips again

Women

100Hurdles......Priscilla Lopes- REALLY hope I'm wrong

800m............depends on if the Kenyan's are on or subpar

1500m...........Anna Willard pushes winner (Christin Wruth or Geleta to the line)

2000m...........Vivian Cherioyut

Discus..........Stephanie Brown Trafton

Hammer..........no idea

Long Jump.......Brittney Reese

It is a 2000m race. Seems strange to me to have 1500m and 2000m, but that's what they are doing. The sprint fields are yet to be officially announced, so those aren't all of the entries.

Who is Haron Keitany? I mean let's be honest, Kiprop has got to be the favorite.

The women's 2000m has a rumor that two athletes want to attack the women's WR Maryam and Vivian but will they even got out at the right pace- that's a hard record. Would much rather see them run the 3000m- hope they change it at the last minute.

Ummm... ever heard of Jordan Hasay?

great, great fields.

MEN

400 METER HURDLES

Kerron Clement

800 METERS

Alfred Yego (Kenya) and NHSR for Greer at 1:45.8

BOWERMAN MILE

Asbel Kiprop (Kenya)

3000 METERS

Bernard Lagat

STEEPLECHASE

Paul Koech (Kenya)

SHOT PUT

Christian Cantwell

HIGH JUMP

Andrey Silnov (Russia)

LONG JUMP

Dwight Phillips

POLE VAULT

Derek Miles

WOMEN

100 HURDLES

Perdita Felicien (Canada)

800 METERS

Janet Jepkosgei (Kenya) Jelimo needs to prove herself after her opener.

1500 METERS

Gelete Burka (Ethiopia)

2000 METERS

Maryam Jamal (Bahrain)

DISCUS THROW

Stephanie Brown Trafton

HAMMER THROW

Oksana Menkova (Belarus)

LONG JUMP

Yelena Sokolova (Russia)

Yeah, I think we're still missing the sprints here. I guess they're doing the 300 meters, Merritt's going to be in that.

Otherwise, Kiprop over Keitany in the mile, Yego in the 800, I'll get to the rest later.

Alan Webb for a big win in the mile

in that field, I'm thinking Webb is going to be towards the back. Hope I'm wrong.

and the 2000! that's just a retarded distance to run in the US when you're also running the 1500.

If you remember in 2007 Vivian ran a sub 60 second at the World Championships to medal and in 2008 she beat Meseret Defar in a sprint finish in one GP meet. Vivian is working on her speed even more as she run more 1500m this year and feel like a 2000 would give her more indication where she is in training and Maryam can go either 800m or 5000m with her 1500m. I do agree it would be better for both of them if this was a sub 8:30 3000m and they are not the only two to watch in the race.

WEBB is going to win this and everyone will jump right back on the bandwagon.

I know Alan's not gonna win but I hope he makes some drastic improvements from his season performances so far this year.

777 wrote:

Who is Haron Keitany? I mean let's be honest, Kiprop has got to be the favorite.

He ran 3:30 last month.

777 wrote:

Who is Haron Keitany? I mean let's be honest, Kiprop has got to be the favorite.

Clearly the olympics was the only 1500 you watched last. I'll agree Kiprop is the favorite, but not by much.