Friday, June 25, 2010

Yes/No: Leer Top Minnesotan at USA 1500m?

Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa is the site of this year's USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Minnesotans will be competing all over the stadium, but especially concentrated in the middle distance and 10k events. The meet has kicked off yesterday and will conclude on Sunday.

The event with the most Minnesotans is also the penultimate event of the entire meet: the Men's 1500 meter. Will Leer has the fastest 1500 time of the Minnesotans in 2010 but will be pushed by Ben Blankenship and the Heath brothers - Garrett and Elliott.

So our questions this week is ...

Y/N: Will William Leer finish as the top Minnesotan in the finals of the 1500 Meters at the USA Outdoor Championships on Sunday?

The Men's 1500 competition begins with prelims on Friday evening at 6:25. The final will be held on Sunday at 2:40 P.M. Will Leer is the sixth ranked 1500 meter runner with a seed time of 3:37.26. Garrett Heath is next - eleventh, 3:39.25. Blankenship is ranked fourteenth - 3:39.77 and Elliott Heath is twenty-seventh, 3:41.27.

(For the purposes of the contest, if no Minnesotan makes the final, the top Minnesotan will be defined as the athlete that ran the fastest in the first round.)

To play our game, simply type "yes" or "no" into the subject line of an e-mail and send it to us at DtBFantasy [AT] gmail [DOT] com before 6:15 P.M. CST, Friday, June 25th. Please put your answer in the subject line of the e-mail and make sure your full name appears somewhere in the e-mail. We will continue to offer a bonus for participants making their debut in Yes/No - a correct answer will be worth two points for any first-time players.

My answer: Yes

The fantasy contest question from last week was: Will Mary Akor or Chris Raabe (or both) repeat as Grandma's Marathon champions on Saturday? The answer was no. Raabe finished sixth and Akor fourth. Twenty-six contestants answered correctly this week and there was no change among the top seven players overall.

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