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.)
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