The day after Maggie Ewen, who broke her Minnesota State record in the shot at this year's State Meet, won the Junior Championship in the discus Liz Podominick finished third in the USATF Outdoor Championships to qualify for the US team for the IAAF World Championships in Moscow. Podominick has the A standard from earlier in the year, so even though her distance on Saturday was only 199'1"(60.69m), she made the team by placing third. "I had really good warmups and then I tensed up a little bit in the prelims. Then my fifth throw was my best mark, but I couldn't save it. I just focused on what I could control, which was in the circle, and tried to make the team."
Former MSHSL 2001 Class A discus champ from Pelican Rapids Rachel Longfors finished eighth in the discus with a throw of 185'1"(56.43m).
Team USA Minnesota's Heather Kampf finished sixth in the 800 final in 2:00.68. Winner Alysia Montano took the lead from the start and held off a fast closing field in the final stretch. Kampf led the chase pack for a lap and a half but came up short in the final lap as the top three finishers each broke two minutes.
The men's 5K started off with Garrett Heath in the lead for an 80 plus second first lap and didn't get much faster for nearly two miles as the entire field ran 5 minute pace. Lots of pushing, checking, and words between some of the runners jammed together, until Ben True took off with less than a mile to go as the leaders ran a sub four minute last mile. Heath was in contention for a spot on the team into the final straight, and ended up sixth in 14:58.85. His brother Elliott Heath was seventh in 15:02.07, and Hassan Mead was ninth in 15:11.76. Bernard Lagat won the race in 14:54.16.
Minnesota State Mankato's Christopher Reed finished 13th in the shot put with a throw of 62'.25"(18.90M).
Sunday, June 23, 2013
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