World Cross Country Championships

Mar 20-21, 2004 at Brussels, Belgium

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Flanagan leads Team USA at World Cross Country Championships
3-21-2004

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BRUSSELS, Belgium – Shalane Flanagan’s finish in the senior women’s short course race was the top performance for Team USA Sunday at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Brussels, Belgium.

Sunday’s races at Ossegem Park in Laken Brussels were held under mostly sunny skies with temperatures in the low 50s. Stiff winds provided a challenge to the competitors along with slippery and muddy conditions due to Saturday’s considerable rainfall. Due to the muddy condition of the turns, those areas became especially treacherous to the athletes, who were forced to slow down considerably to avoid slipping.

A two-time NCAA cross country champion and the 2004 U.S. 4 km cross country champion, Flanagan, who is currently red-shirting prior to her senior year at the University of North Carolina, had the most impressive U.S. performance of the day by finishing 14th in the women’s short course competition. Three-time NCAA 5,000m champion and the collegiate record holder at 5,000 meters Lauren Fleshman was the next American across the finish line in 24th as the U.S. placed seventh in the team competition.

Additional U.S. finishers included Christin Wurth-Thomas (Fayetteville, Arkansas), 43rd, Melissa Buttry (Waverly, Iowa) 60th, Sarah Hann (Winchester, N.H.) 64th and Janet Trujillo (Superior, Colorado) 77th. Ethiopia narrowly won the gold medal over Kenya (19-21) with Canada grabbing the bronze medal.

2000 Olympian and 2001 U.S. 10,000-meter champion Abdi Abdirahman (Tucson, Arizona) led Team USA’s 12 km men’s squad to an 11th place finish by placing 34th. Two-time Olympian and 2004 U.S. 12 km cross country champion Bob Kennedy (Indianapolis, Ind.) was 44th, with Richard Brinker (Utica, Mich.) finishing 51st. Dave Davis (Portland, Oregon) was 82nd, with Nolan Swanson (Springfield, Oregon) 93rd and Joshua Eberly (Gunnison, Colorado) 108th. Ethiopia won the men’s team competition with 14 points, with Kenya the runner-up with 30 points.

The first to hit the course on Sunday were the Junior Men, with Team USA being led to a seventh place finish in the team competition by Aurora, Colorado, prep standout Ryan Deak, who placed 34th. Stanford University freshman Forrest Tahdooahnippah was 37th, with Joshua McDougal (Peru, N.Y.) 49th, Pete Janson (Boulder, Colorado) 55th, Trent Hoerr (Peoria, Illinois) 60th and Ian Burrell (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 81st. Kenya edged out Ethiopia for the team gold medal 20 points to 25. Uganda was third with 33 points.

SENIOR WOMEN 4 km

Individual Standings: 1. Edith Masai (KEN), 13:07; 2. Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH), 13:09; 3. Teyba Erkesso (ETH), 13:11; 4. Werknesh Kidane (ETH), 13:14; 5. Isabella Ochichi (KEN), 13:18.

Team USA: 14. Shalane Flanagan – 13:34; 24. Lauren Fleshman – 13:56; 43. Christin Wurth-Thomas; 14:21; 60. Melissa Buttry – 14:33; 64. Sarah Hann – 14:38; 77. Janet Trujillo – 14:57.

Team Scoring: 1. Ethiopia – 19 points, 2. Kenya – 21; 3. Canada – 87, 4. Morocco – 101, 5. Great Britain – 125, 6. Portugal – 127, 7. United States – 141.

SENIOR MEN 12 km

Individual Standings: 1. Kenenisa Bekele (ETH), 35:52; 2. Gebre-egziab Gebremariam (ETH), 36;10; 3. Sileshi Sihine (ETH), 36:11; 4. Eliud Kipchoge (KEN), 36:34; 5. Charles Kamathi (KEN), 36:36.

Team USA: 34. Abdi Abdirahman – 38:09, 44. Bob Kennedy – 38:28, 51. Richard Brinker – 38:36, 82. Dave Davis – 39:30, 93. Nolan Swanson – 40:03, 108. Joshua Eberly – 41:03.

Team Scoring: 1. Ethiopia – 14 points, 2. Kenya – 30, 3. Eritrea – 66, 4. Morocco – 68, 5. Australia – 101.

JUNIOR MEN 8 km

Individual Standings: 1. Meba Tadesse (ETH), 24:01; 2. Boniface Kirrop (UGA), 24:03; 3. Ernest Meli Kimeli (KEN), 24:16; 4. Barnabas Kiplagat Kosgei (KEN), 24:16; 5. Mulugeta Wendimu (ETH), 24:44.

Team USA: 34. Ryan Deak – 26:27; 37. Forrest Tahdooahnippah – 26:29; 49. Joshua McDougal – 26:50; 55. Peter Janson – 27:03; 60. Trent Hoerr – 27:08; 81. Ian Burrell – 124.

Team Scores: 1. Kenya – 20 points; 2. Ethiopia – 25; 3. Uganda – 33; 4. Morocco – 61; 5. Japan – 105.

Senior Women 4 km quotes:

Shalane Flanagan: All I wanted to do today was to get some experience. I'll come back with some vengeance next year. We have a good team this year, but I'm sure we'll have a better team in the years to come. I was in so much pain, and I look down at my chest (glances at USA logo), and said to myself, 'that's why I'm running today'. It makes me proud that I'm not only representing USA, but my school, my family, and my parents. This race is much more physical than anything I've been in. I was throwing some elbows out there and was making my own space as best as I could. Those ladies are fierce competitors and I tried to come in with that mentality. This race helps me realize how great the world's top runners are and how much harder I have to train.

Lauren Fleshman: That was a challenge! I don't know how you prepare for a race like this and I'm not sure you can create something to simulate a race like this. That was an eye opener for me, and tells me what I need to do in the next few months. I need to get better racing, but that's okay, this lets me know what I am up against...there's a lot of tough women out there. I might have gone out a little quick with the start, but I wanted to take a risk, but I thought that it would be worth it to stick my nose in and go out the first 2k and try to be in the top 15 and see if I could hold on to it. I don't think I am at a point in my training that I can do that.

Melissa Buttry: It was really good. I didn’t run that well at all, but it was great to be here to go after it. I didn’t get out as fast as I wanted. I just couldn’t get my legs going. It wasn’t really a good race for me, but the team did really good.

Sarah Hann: I ran in Dublin (2002 World Cross Country Championships) and I don’t remember it being this tough. I got a bad start this time around and I tried to make up a lot of ground on the second loop. I felt strong on the second loop this time. I was more confident and strong here and in Dublin I was scared. This time I was a little more focused on doing well. I’m just proud to be a part of the U.S. team.

Christin Wurth-Thomas: It was fun. It’s a tough cross country course and that’s what it’s all about. I wanted to go out strong, especially in the second loop. The conditions were difficult and the turns were especially difficult. It was tough. I’m going to go back home and focus on track again.

Janet Trujillo: The hills affected me right in the beginning, and the mud puddles, but I'm glad that four people scored, and I was rooting for my team from back there. I was trying hard to finish decently, but it turned out the way I wanted it, but I gave it all I had. I really couldn't recover after the first 400 meters.

Senior Men 12 km quotes:

Abdi Abdirahman: I ran the way I wanted to run, but I was bothered by something in my hip with about two laps to go. For about three laps I was where I wanted to be, and I was positioning myself, then everything changed that lap (when the lead pack made their move). This is a real cross country course. This course shows your strengths and weaknesses. The Belgians really know how to put together a cross country course.

Dave Davis: This is definitely the hardest race I've ever been in. I think I should have gone out a little bit easier than I did and I got eaten up alive. If I had to do it over again, I would go out a little more sensibly and try and pick off people as I go along. I should have been smarter about it. I just got away from my plan.

Bob Kennedy: I didn't feel good...I never did. I felt decent warming up, but I never felt right. For at least three kilometers I was in the position I wanted to be, with the idea that I would start picking through the pack, but I went the other way.

Richard Brinker: I had to race the way I train and that’s the way I went out. If I would’ve pushed it hard early I would’ve finished dead last. My goal was to run an even pace, but I think I slowed down about ten seconds per lap. This has been a helluva time. I’m glad to be here. It was my goal in college to make a U.S. team and it was a great experience once I got here.

Nolan Swanson: I guess I went out to hard through the first 800 meters because I couldn’t run from there to 8K when I stopped to rub out a stitch. After that I felt okay the last lap and a half. I got it out of there and I kept rubbing it and I ran faster the last lap and a half than I did from 4K to 7K. We didn’t do very well. I didn’t catch anybody but two or three people in the last lap. I ran like a rookie.

Joshua Eberly: I definitely started out too quick. After about 1K I started to feel the lactic acid and then it was tough. It was a good experience and I’m still young, I just turned 23. It’s a great experience to be with Bob (Kennedy) and Abdi (Abdirahman) and everyone else. Hopefully next year I’ll improve and step up.

Junior Men’s Team quotes:

Joshua McDougal: It was a great experience in the mud. Everything was incredible. I just went out the last few kilometers and had absolutely nothing. After the first 2K I didn’t feel that great and I kept falling off from there. We didn’t want to go out too fast. We wanted to pace ourselves and take the race as it came. It was great to see where I stood against the rest of the world. It wasn’t as good as I hoped.

Pete Janson: They went out really fast. I’ve never seen anything like that before. A lot of guys got out fast and I think that was a good thing. I went out kind of slow. That was my strategy hoping that some people would come back. It seemed that people were going up the hills really easy and going down the hills really hard. I went kind of even on both. It didn’t work out that much. I stayed at about the same position relative to about everyone in the entire race.

Trent Hoerr: I got out really slow and I couldn’t get anything going on the first lap and tried to move on the second lap and got passed by about 50 guys, and pretty much that was it. I was just tired today. We talked about going out and bunching up but that didn’t really work.

Ryan Deak: It went perfect. I got a great start. I didn’t feel like I was going fast at all, but I was ahead of some Kenyans, so I relaxed about the next 100 yards and I relaxed up the hill and then relaxed to the first K point. About the 6K mark I got a horrible cramp in the side of my stomach and that totally killed my last loop. I got passed by about 10 guys, but for the most part I felt tremendous out there and it’s the best I’ve ever felt. My race plan worked out perfectly.

Forrest Tahdooahnippah: I tried to stay low-key during the week and tried not to get too worked up. As soon as I got here, with all the different countries and people chanting “USA, USA” and all the spectators from all over, it was amazing. As far as the race itself, I looked out and saw the people and decided to sprint as hard as I could for the first 200 meters and it turned out really well. I was passing a ton of people and a ton of people were passing me. I was able to dig in with about a kilometer left and I was able to get some people, but the last 100 meters I was out of everything.

Ian Burrell was not available for comment.

 

Team USA Junior Women take fourth at Brussels
3-20-2004

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BRUSSELS, Belgium – Led by top finishers Amber Harper and Alison Costello, Team USA’s Junior Women’s squad placed fourth Saturday at the 2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Brussels, Belgium.

Saturday’s races at Ossegem Park in Laken Brussels were held under cloudy skies with temperatures in the low 50s. Competitors also had to deal with breezy conditions with a steady drizzle, along with an occasional downpour. The moisture caused the course to become wet and slippery with numerous patches of mud.

Team USA’s junior women’s team took to the course first on Saturday and equaled its best ever placing at the World Cross Country Championships by finishing fourth in the team competition with 120 points. Ethiopia grabbed the top four places in winning the team competition with 10 points. Kenya was the runner-up with 36 points, with Japan third with 67 points. Team USA’s junior women also placed fourth in 1995 in Durham, England, and in 2003 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The U.S. was led by Amber Harper (Provo, Utah), who placed 24th, followed by Alison Costello (Los Angeles, Calif.) in 30th and Amanda Trotter (Palo Alto, Calif.) in 31st. Jennifer Barringer (Oveido, Florida) was 35th with Trotter’s twin sister Katy (Palo Alto, Calif.) 36th and Brittany Brockman (Waco, Texas) 60th.

In the senior women’s long course race, the Americans placed fifth overall. Kate O’Neill (New Haven, CT.) was the top finisher, running 15th. Katherine Newberry (Williamsburg, VA.) placed 25th, Katie McGregor (Edina, MN) was 27th, Ann Marie Schwabe (Boulder, CO) was 31st, while Laura O’Neill (New Haven, CT) finished 38th, and Molly Austin (Boulder, CO) was 79th.

Team USA’s men’s short course squad finished seventh in the team competition. 1996 Olympic steeplechaser Robert Gary (Columbus, Ohio) led the way with his 33rd place finish. Other U.S. finishers included Luke Watson in 36th place, Sandu Rebenciuc (Lafayette, Colo.), who finished 46th and Jared Cordes (Colorado Springs, Colo.) who was 48th. Ian Connor (Columbus, Ohio) was 58th and Isaiah Festa (Colorado Springs, Colo.) placed 60th.

JUNIOR WOMEN 8 km

Individual Standings: 1. Meselech Melkamu (ETH), 20:48; 2. Aziza Aliyu (ETH), 20:53; 3. Mestawat Tadesse (ETH), 20:59, 4. Workitu Ayanu (ETH), 20:59; 5. Chemtai Rionotukei (KEN), 21:04.

Team USA: 24. Amber Harper (21:58), 30. Alison Costello (22:10), 31. Amanda Trotter (22:11), 35. Jennifer Barringer (22:19), Kathleen Trotter (22:20), 60. Brittany Brockman (23:04).

Team Scoring: 1. Ethiopia - 10 points, 2. Kenya – 36, 3. Japan – 67, 4. United States – 120, 5. Russia – 160. SENIOR MEN 4 km

Individual Standings 1. Kenenisa Bekele (ETH), 11:31; 2. Gebre-egziab Bebremariam (ETH), 11:36; 3. Maregu Zewdie (ETH), 11:42; 4. Abdullah Ahmad Hassan (QAT), 11:44; 5. Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT), 11:44.

Team USA: 33. Robert Gary (12:12); 36. Luke Watson (12:17); 46. Sandu Rebenciuc (12:23); 48. Jared Cordes (12:24), 58. Ian Connor (12:29), 60. Isaiah Festa (12:30).

Team Scoring: 1. Ethiopia - 17 points; 2. Qatar - 39; 3. Kenya - 52; 4. Morocco - 119; 5. Algeria - 120; 6. Canada - 128. United States - 163.

SENIOR WOMEN 8 km

Individual Standings: 1. Benita Johnson (AUS), 27:17; 2. Ejegayehu Dibaba (ETH), 27:29; 4. Alice Timbilili (KEN), 27:36; 5. Teyba Erkesso (ETH), 27:43

Team USA: 15. Kate O'Neill (28:37); 25. Kate Newberry (28:56); 27. Katie McGregor (28:57); 31. Ann Marie Schwabe (29:05); 38. Laura O'Neill (29:27); Molly Austin (31:00).

Team Standings: 1. Ethiopia - 26 points; 2. Kenya - 30 points; 3. Great Britain & Northern Ireland - 74 points; 4. France - 90; 5. United States - 98.

The action resumes Sunday with the Junior Men’s race beginning at 1:15 p.m., followed by the Senior Women’s 4 km at 2:15 p.m. The Championships will conclude with the Senior Men’s 12 km race at 2:45 p.m.

Junior Women’s Team quotes:

Amber Harper: We all stuck together and it was awesome. I felt good and I just went. It was hard in the wind, though. It was a fun race. There were a lot of people yelling at us that Japan was the team right in front of us. I know I passed one of their gals towards the end. It was really muddy, but not as muddy as I thought it would be.

Jennifer Barringer: There are so many people and I’ve never raced at this high a level. It’s been awesome meeting Bob Kennedy and Shalane Flanagan and all the other great runners on our team. It’s a great thrill to be a part of this. I think I raced really strong.

Amanda Trotter: Running with these girls is awesome. It was muddy and we gave a great effort. We all know that we have about the same ability and we knew that if we could stick together we could do well. I’m very happy.

Katy Trotter: I fell on the last turn and it was hard to get up. It was a shame. We knew that Japan was right in front of us and we tried to pass them.

Alison Costello: It was fun to be out there, but the race was really tough. This is a lot different than running against other collegiate runners. I love running with the Trotters. We ran together nearly the whole race and we became one unit and it was such a team race. The whole time they were talking and helping everyone else and we’ve developed a real bond.

Brittany Brockman: This was really interesting. There really is nothing like it. This is my first time out of the U.S. and I really can’t wait to come back again. It’s such an honor to be here. I’m really happy for the team.

Senior Men 4 km quotes:

Jared Cordes: I kinda started in the middle and had to work my way back up. I don’t think I finished that strong. It didn’t feel like the best race I’ve had, unfortunately. For a while during the second half of the race there was four of us (Americans) running side by side and that helped a lot as we tried to work our way up. We ran pretty well.

Luke Watson: I think all of us thought we’d finish a couple notches higher. No one really blew up today, it didn’t seem. I think we all had middle of the road races. We needed a high sixth and we didn’t have that today. We had great depth today, we just didn’t do as well as we would’ve hoped.

Isaiah Festa: We got out next to the Kenyans and they got out real well and I just followed them. I got out in the top 20 and then I fell back aways and after that I just tried to regroup and move up as best I could. This is my first international experience and I learned a lot. Now I’ll go home and get ready to run the steeplechase on the track.

Ian Connor: It was rough. I tried to go out a little softer than I did last year. It was all-out running. You really can’t compare this race to any other race. It’s like holding your breath for 4k or so. You really can’t prep for this. The pace is incredible right from the gun. You really can’t recover from the downhill because there’s an uphill just as quickly.

Sandy Rebenciuc: The mud definitely makes this a tough race. The chutes were kind of narrow. I’m happy to have scored and helped the team. The competition does not allow you much leeway as far as what you can do as a team, so we just went with the flow.

Robert Gary: The course is pretty tough and muddy, but I’m a mud runner. I really wanted to get into the top ten going up the first hill, but I was going as hard as I could, but I just got left. I was picking my way through, but got a bit lazy in the third kilometer and didn’t feel like I came through very hard at the finish, but when you’re getting your butt kicked it’s kinda hard to rally. I was literally going all out the first 400 meters up the hill and ten guys passed me. It’s go as hard as you can, take a deep breath and then go hard again. I kinda wished I had run the 12k…you get a little more time to recover.

Senior Women 8 km quotes

Kate O’Neill—I didn’t know what to expect. It’s sort of crazy with the crowd and the mud. I couldn’t get a sense of pace, so I tried to make it hurt the whole way, and put as much effort into it as I could in the places you could, because it was muddy in some spots, and you had to anticipate those spots and go fast when the footing’s good, and luckily, things worked out pretty well. I thought it paid off to swing out and run on firmer ground. I’m going to try and remember what I learned here today and apply it to the track.

Kathy Newberry—The plan was to get established in the first lap and go from there. I went out comfortably, but not too hard. I focused on lap by lap working my way up. It was crazy, but it was good to have people who have had experience at this meet. They were helpful in preparing me for this.

Katie McGregor—I felt good at the beginning, but I was hoping to be out around 10-20th place.

Ann Marie Schwabe—I thought that it went really well. After the 4k, it felt like a cyclone. I love the course, with the mud and the sharp turns, uphill and downhill. This was a true cross country course, and it was amazing. This was the best cross country experience I’ve ever had. My personal goal was to be a scorer on the U.S. team, and I did that.

Laura O’Neill—I knew it was going to be really crowded in the beginning and pretty muddy, so that is what I was nervous about, so it was a different kind of nervous, as opposed to being nervous about other factors. It was fun running with the mud splashing, and I am pretty happy with my performance. It war really neat hearing people cheer in different languages. It’s the most challenging course I’ve ever been on. It was a good course and a fair course. Katie, Ann Marie, and Molly gave us some feedback on what to expect, as they’ve competed at Worlds before, but quite honestly, I really didn’t know what to expect, but I wanted to learn something and have a good race.

Molly Austin—It was awful. I got here Monday, and my legs were real sluggish, and I kept thinking that it would get better. At the start, it felt awful, and my goal was just to finish. I’m real bummed, but it happens. The lesson I learned today is to keep my head up…it has to get better. It’s an honor to even come here and run against this kind of competition.

 

USATF announces 2004 World Cross Country Team

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, March 15, 2004

INDIANAPOLIS – Olympian Bob Kennedy and NCAA champion Shalane Flanagan lead the Team USA lineups that will compete at the 32nd IAAF World Cross Country Championships, March 20-21 in Brussels, Belgium. A total of six races will be held at the World Championships, in the following divisions: senior men’s 12 km and 4 km, senior women’s 8 km and 4 km, junior men’s 8 km and junior women’s 6 km.

Athletes earned their places on the Team USA roster at the 2004 USA Cross Country Championships held February 6-7 in Indianapolis. The event mirrored the format used at the World Championships with three races held each day.

Team USA will be led by two-time Olympian Bob Kennedy, who at Indianapolis won the men’s 12 km title for the second time in his career. Kennedy, who previously won the U.S. long course title in 1992, is the American record holder in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters.

Kennedy will be joined on the men’s long course squad by 2000 Olympian Abdi Abdirahman, who will be competing at the World Cross Country Championships for the fifth time in his career after placing fifth at the U.S. Championships. Kennedy and Abdirahman last joined forces at the 2001 World Cross Country Championships where they finished 12th and 15th respectively in helping lead the U.S. squad to the men’s long course team bronze medal. Abdirahman’s best finish at World Cross Country was in 2002 when he placed 11th in Dublin, Ireland.

Also look for Dave Davis to compete on the U.S. men’s long course team following his seventh place finish in Indianapolis. Davis placed 64th in the 4 km race at the 2002 World Cross Country Championships.

Team USA’s women’s long course squad will be led by 2004 national runner-up Katie McGregor, who placed 16th at the 2003 World Cross Country Championships in helping Team USA to the team bronze medal. She will be joined by 2004 third-place finisher Ann Marie Brooks, who placed 56th in the 4 km race at the 2003 World Cross Country Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. Molly Austin (5th at Indy) will make her second World Cross Country Championships appearance following her 77th place finish last year in Lausanne. The women’s long course team also will feature former Yale standouts and identical twins, Kate and Laura O’Neill, who placed fourth and sixth respectively in Indianapolis.

Former Notre Dame standout Luke Watson will lead the men’s short course team in Brussels after finishing as the runner-up last month in Indianapolis. 1996 Olympic 3,000m steeplechaser Robert Gary also will compete on the men’s short course squad after finishing as the runner-up to Kennedy in the long course race, and third in the short course race in Indianapolis. The 2003 U.S. short course cross country champion, Gary last competed at the World Cross Country Championships in 1998 in Marrakech, Morocco. Ian Connor (6th at Indy) will compete for Team USA again after placing 62nd in the short course race last year in Lausanne.

The University of North Carolina’s Shalane Flanagan made the U.S. women’s 4 km squad by winning her first USA Cross Country title last month by a two-second margin over Carrie Tollefson. The 2002 and 2003 NCAA Cross Country champion, Flanagan will be joined by 2003 NCAA 5,000m champion Lauren Fleshman (3rd at Indy). The two will be reunited in Brussels after solid performances as juniors at the 2000 Worlds in Vilamoura, Portugal, where Fleshman finished 26th and Flanagan placed 29th.

The University of Colorado’s Peter Janson enters the World Cross Country Championships as the 2004 USA junior men’s champion. He is the second consecutive Buffalo to win the U.S. crown after his collegiate teammate Billy Nelson won the title in 2003. Joining Janson on the squad is prep star Ryan Deak, who was the runner-up to Janson in Indianapolis and will enroll as a freshman at Colorado in the fall. Colorado head coach Mark Wetmore serves in that capacity for this year’s junior men’s team.

UCLA freshman Alison Costello will lead the U.S. junior women’s team following her win in the 6 km competition in Indianapolis. One of the Bruins’ top performers at their seventh place finish at last year’s NCAA Cross Country Championships, Costello will be joined by twins Amanda (5th at Indy) and Katherine (4th at Indy) Trotter, both freshmen at Stanford University. Brigham Young University freshman Amber Harper placed third at Nationals and enters the World Championships as the reigning USATF Junior Olympic Young Women’s cross country champion.

2004 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Team USA Roster (Alphabetical by event)

Senior Men’s 12 km
Name Place at U.S. Champs Residence
Abdi Abdirahman 5th - 35:37 Tucson, Arizona
Richard Brinker 10th – 36:10 Utica, Michigan
Dave Davis 7th - 35:46 Portland, Oregon
Joshua Eberly 9th – 36:00 Gunnison, Colorado
Bob Kennedy 1st - 35:03 Indianapolis, Indiana
Nolan Swanson 6th - 35:39 Springfield, Oregon

Senior Men’s 4 km
Ian Connor 6th – 11:22 Columbus, Ohio
Jared Cordes 4th – 11:17 Colorado Springs, Colorado
Isaiah Festa 5th – 11:19 Colorado Springs, Colorado
Robert Gary 3rd – 11:15 Columbus, Ohio
Sandu Rebenciuc 7th – 11:28 Lafayette, Colorado
Luke Watson 2nd – 11:14 South Bend, Indiana

Junior Men’s 8 km
Ian Burrell 6th – 24:28 Colorado Springs, Colorado
Ryan Deak 2nd – 24:24 Aurora, Colorado
Trent Hoerr 3rd – 24:24 Peoria, Illinois
Peter Janson 1st – 24:14 Boulder, Colorado
Joshua McDougal 5th – 24:27 Peru, New York
Forrest Tahdooahnip 4th – 24:25 Palo Alto, California

Senior Women’s 8 km
Molly Austin 5th – 27:44 Boulder, Colorado
Ann Marie Brooks-Schwabe 3rd – 27:33 Boulder, Colorado
Katie McGregor 2nd – 26:47 Edina, Minnesota
Katherine Newberry 7th – 28:02 Williamsburg, Virginia
Kate O’Neill 4th – 27:38 New Haven, Connecticut
Laura O’Neill 6th – 27:45 New Haven, Connecticut

Senior Women’s 4 km
Melissa Buttry 4th – 12:59 Waverly, Iowa
Shalane Flanagan 1st – 12:26 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Lauren Fleshman 3rd – 12:38 Stanford, California
Sarah Hann 6th – 13:05 Winchester, New Hampshire
Janet Trujillo 5th - 13:01 Superior, Colorado
Christin Wurth-Thomas 7th – 13:08 Fayetteville, Arkansas

Junior Women’s 6 km
Jenny Barringer 5th – 21:34 Oviedo, Florida
Brittany Brockman 6th – 21:37 Waco, Texas
Alison Costello 1st – 20:55 Los Angeles, California
Amber Harper 3rd – 21:19 Provo, Utah
Amanda Trotter 5th – 21:34 Palo Alto, California
Katherine Trotter 2nd – 21:06 Palo Alto, California


2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Schedule of Events:

March 20, 2004: 12:40 p.m. Junior Women’s 6 km 1:30 p.m., Senior Men’s 4 km 1:30 p.m., Senior Women’s 8 km 2:10 p.m.

March 21, 2004: Junior Men’s 8 km 1:15 p.m., Senior Women’s 4 km 2:15 p.m., Senior Men’s 12 km 2:45 p.m.

WM-Athletes who finished in the top six at the U.S. Championships who are not going to Brussels:
Men’s 4k--1.Charlie Gruber
Women’s 8k--1.Colleen de Reuck
Women’s 4k--2.Carrie Tollefson
Men’s 12k--2.Robert Gary, 3. Jorge Torres, 4.Alan Webb

 

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