Jr. Race In Edinburgh - (America?)/OSU Guy Dominates!!!

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  • curious bob
    8 years ago 01/07/2012 6:27pm CST
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    Junior men’s 6km
    1 Kirubel Erassa (USA) 19:54
    2 Kieron Clements (GBR) 19:55
    3 Mark Shaw (GBR) 19:58
    4 Eddie Owens (USA) 20:08
    5 Andrew Gardner (USA) 20:10
    6 Sean Tobin (IRL) 20:15
    7 Michael Bradjic (USA) 20:19
    8 Thomas Curtin (USA) 20:21

    I googled Erassa and it looks lik he went to school in GA for HS. Anyone know if he's American?

    According to his OSU bio (
    http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-track/mtt/erassa_kirubel00.html
    ), Erassa ran 14:19 in HS. Has scored in Big 12 in mile, was top 20 at Big 12s in xc this year.

    Who are the credentials of the other Americans in the race?

    Where do they go to school?

    Any brits out there? Who are your guys?
  • rojo
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    8 years ago 01/07/2012 6:39pm CST
    re: curious bob
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    Considering Erassa ran for the US, I'd assume he's an American citizen although I know Lukas V did compete for the US in triathlon and he's not an American.

    As for bios, it looks like USATF has bios of everyone in all the races.

    Jr Men here:

    http://www.usatf.org/events/2012/BupaGreatEdinburghInternationalXC/JUNIOR_MEN.pdf

    All races here:

    http://www.usatf.org/events/2012/BupaGreatEdinburghInternationalXC/startlist.asp
  • lkj
    8 years ago 01/07/2012 7:34pm CST
    re: curious bob
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    5th Garder- just a junior in h.s. at Mead H.S. in Spokane,Wa.

    What about the junior girls results?
  • rojo
    cofounder
    8 years ago 01/07/2012 7:42pm CST
    re: lkj
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    5th Garder- just a junior in h.s. at Mead H.S. in Spokane,Wa.

    What about the junior girls results?[/quote]


    The race people sent them to us and are here:

    http://www.letsrun.com/2012/edinburghresults-0107.php[quote]lkj wrote:
  • Ployboy
    8 years ago 01/07/2012 8:03pm CST
    re: lkj
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    You are thinking of Andrew Gardiner. This is a different guy (8th Footlocker 2008)

    lkj wrote:

    5th Garder- just a junior in h.s. at Mead H.S. in Spokane,Wa.

    What about the junior girls results?
  • envewi
    8 years ago 01/07/2012 10:19pm CST
    re: lkj
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    lkj wrote:

    5th Garder- just a junior in h.s. at Mead H.S. in Spokane,Wa.

    What about the junior girls results?

    Cuffe 2nd, Seidel 3rd, Knight 5th... very impressive performance for the US juniors. Nathan Weitz finished up pretty close to the front, as well as Gardner, so WA did well today!
  • bles you
    8 years ago 01/08/2012 12:01am CST
    re: curious bob
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    erassa was a great hs runner he's east african but i dont know if he's a us citizen, eddie owens was a good hs runner 8th at footlocker i think was a great 3k steeple runner (sub 9) in highschool, freshman at princeton this year had a solid 1st year
  • jjjjjjjjj
    8 years ago 01/08/2012 8:30pm CST
    re: bles you
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    4th Eddie Owens attended Packer Collegiate in Brooklyn and was partly coached by my teammate, I believe.
  • buttons
    8 years ago 01/09/2012 1:15pm CST
    re: curious bob
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    The Irish guy Sean Tobin is at Iona I think?