Sunday, July 06, 2014

News: Padua; Memorial Leon Buyle Videos, USATF Juniors, Kampf, Leer

Gopher grad Harun Abda was fourth in the 800 at the World Athletics Meet in Padua on Sunday in 1:46.32. Result is HERE. "1:46:3 today," wrote Abda on Twitter. "Not a great time but 4sec faster than what I ran at USA's champ, It was hard to run fast when there were 13 ppl in 1 heat."

Team USA Minnesota's Jon Peterson's thoughts on his first race this summer in Europe HERE. 3K video is HERE. 1500 video is HERE.

Minnetonka's Mia Barron finished fourteenth in the long jump with a leap of 5.75m/18'10.5".  Result is HERE.   A missed result from yesterday, Kasson Mantorville's Taylor Wiebke finished tied for ninth in the high jump clearing 1.65m/5'5". Result is HERE.Video is HERE.  Another athlete I missed was St. Thomas pole vaulter Connor O'Neill.  He had three misses at the opening height of 4.90m/16'.75". Result is HERE.

Photos from USATF Juniors, Day 1 from The Oregonian are HERE. Jenna Truedson wearing hip number 5 is in photos # 4 and 5.

Team USA Minnesota's Heather Kampf has arrived in Cork, Ireland ready to run the 800 in the Cork City Sports International Meet on Tuesday. Will Leer is in Hungry and will be running in the István Gyulai Memorial Athletics Meeting on Tuesday. Gabe Grunewald will be running the 1500 in Lignano, Italy in the Sports Solidarity Meet on Tuesday.

June St. Cloud Times article on Dan Christian is HERE

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