Headliners for Medtronic TC Mile Announced

Four Olympians will add some speed and potentially threaten the course records at the May 9 Medtronic TC Mile in Minneapolis. 

New Zealand’s Nick Willis, the 2008 Olympic silver-medalist at 1500m, will join Kenya’s Boaz Lalang, a semifinalist at 800-meters in Beijing, Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes, a 1500 semifinalist at the London Games last year, and Australia’s Gen LaCaze, a steeplechaser in London, in the professional waves of the race that runs through the heart of downtown Minneapolis on Nicollet Mall.

The foursome joins defending champions Craig Miller (Colorado Spring, CO) and Heather Kampf, a Rosemount, Minnesota native who competes for Team USA Minnesota among announced competitors in the race.  Also declared are 2012 Medtronic TC 1 Mile Men’s runner-up Aaron Braun (Flagstaff, Ariz.), newly crowned USA 1 Mile champion Garrett Heath, a native of Winona, MN, and US Olympic Trials 800 finalist Phoebe Wright (Signal Mountain, TN.)