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USATF News & Notes
Volume 4, Number 21 March 10, 2003
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In this edition:
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- Drossin shatters U.S. 15 km record (ex-Agoura HS star)
- Terek, Lott-Hogan win at USA Combined Events Championships
- Dunn leads Team USA to Pan Am Cup 50 km title
- Seaman, Armenta top U.S. race walk finishers in Tijuana
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Drossin shatters U.S. 15 km record
2000 Olympian Deena Drossin shaved 57 seconds off the U.S. 15
km record
she established last year and won her fourth-straight national title
Saturday at the USA 15 km Championships in Jacksonville, Florida. With
her performance, Drossin becomes the first female or male athlete to
accomplish this achievement.
Her time of 47 minutes, 15 seconds puts her over a minute ahead
of the
second-fastest American all-time, Lisa Weidenbach, who clocked 48:28 in
1989. Drossin of Team USA California earned $10,000 for her victory
plus an additional $6000 for the course and U.S. records.
Meb Keflezighi (ex-San Diego HS), 27, also of Team USA California,
won his third-straight
men's 15 km title by shaking Abdi Abdirahman two-thirds of the way into
the race. Keflezighi clocked 43:31 to Abdirahman's 43:59.
2000 Olympian Marla Runyan was the runner-up in 48:43, followed by
Colleen De Reuck (3rd-49:30), Sara Wells of Team USA Minnesota
(4th-50:07), Kim Fitchen-Young (5th-50:39) and Amy Rudolph of Team USA
California (6th-50:40).
Drossin's performance on Saturday suggests that she is in top condition
for the women's 8 km race March 29 at the 2003 World Cross Country
Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. Drossin was runner-up to
marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe at World Cross Country
Championships in 2002, but the British star recently announced she would
not defend the title in 2003 in order to focus on the London Marathon.
The next Circuit race for men is the Papa John's 10 Miler on March 29
in
Louisville, KY, while the women's next grand prix race is the USA
Marathon Championship in St. Louis on April 5. The 2003 USARC - nine
events for men and seven for women offers over $340,000 in prize money
and a $25,000 grand prix ($6000, $4000 and $2500) for the top three men
and women.
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