Cheever Second at Stanford with a PR

Jamie Cheever

Team USA Minnesota's Jamie Cheever finished second in the 3,000 meter steeplechase at the Payton Jordan Invitational Sunday night, bettering her PR by more than 20 seconds in 9:29.13.  Trailing Colorado's Emma Coburn early in the race, Cheever closed the gap to less than a second with a lap to go, but was unable to get past the  2012 US Olympian who was ninth in the Olympic final, and finished just in front of Cheever in Palo Alto in 9:28.26.

Hassan Mead finished fifth in the final section of the 5K with a new PR of 13:15.50, Garrett Heath was eighth in 13:20.01, also a PR. Team USA Minnesota's Jonathan Peterson finished sixth in heat two of the 5K in 13:45.86, and the University of Minnesota's John Simons was ninth in the same heat with a PR of 13:49.65.

Former Gopher Ben Blankenship was fifth in the final heat of the 1500 in 3:39.71.  The university of Minnesota' Nick Hutton won heat three of the 1500 in 3:42.73. Wisconsin's Rob Finnerty finished 12th in heat two of the 1500 in 3:43.06. The Gophers' Andrew Larson finished 12th in heat three of the 5K in 14:17.97.  Team USA Minnesota's Meghan Payton finished 13th in the second heat of the women's 5K in 16:13.37.  Elliott Heath scratched from the meet earlier in the week.

Cheever's time easily made the A standard qualifying mark for the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow.  Mead missed the A standard by half a second, but has a B standard mark.  Full results are HERE. FloTrack photo gallery from the meet is HERE.