The penultimate day of the 2016 US Olympic Team Trials opened with the heptathlon. The women contested four of the seven events today: 100 meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, and 200 meters. The remaining events will be contested Sunday (long jump, javelin, and 800 meters.) In the 100 hurdles, … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 6
The women’s pole vault preliminaries opened the meet up today. “Around 12” from the two flights would advance to the final. Heavy rain began to fall midway through qualifying and the event was suspended for some time. Jenn Suhr waited until the bar was at 14-9 before taking a go. She cleared the … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 5
After a two day break in track events, things resumed in earnest at the oval office. Events for the women were the shot put (qualifying), javelin (qualifying), 5,000 (2 heats, semi-final), 100 hurdles (5 heats, qualifying), 400 hurdles (5 heats, qualifying), shot put (final), 1500 (3 heats, … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 4
The women’s steeplechase semi-finals kicked off the Independence Day edition of the USATF Track and Field Olympic Team Trials. Three heats of 12 women vied for 14 spots in the final. The top three from each heat automatically advanced along with the next five fastest. There were no surprises from … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 3
Day 3 included finals for the high jump, 400, and 100. The high jump finals kicked off the events for the women. The favorites going into the day were the youngster Cunningham and American record holder Lowe. By the third round only six ladies remained, including the favorites. Cunningham and … [Read more...]