UW volunteer assistant coach Matthew Centrowitz wins 1500 in London, while Izaic Yorks sets new PR...
Centrowitz was in the main pack of 13 athletes, as only Djibouti’s Youssouf Hiss Bachir and University of Washington alum Izaic Yorks followed pacesetter Colby Alexander through the first 800, which he went through in 1:54.03.
After Alexander dropped out after the kilometer, Hiss Bachir and Yorks led the field entering the final lap.
However, Yorks got swallowed up by the pack with 250 meters to go, with Hiss Bachir struggling to keep his position in the front.
Meanwhile, Centrowitz worked his way to the front, and passed Hiss Bachir on the inside just after the field exited the final turn, getting the win in 3:35.22, just two days after finishing seventh in Monaco at the Herculis Meeting.
For his front running efforts, Yorks, who ended up finishing 12th, was rewarded with a new personal best of 3:36.81, eclipsing his previous PR of 3:37.74, set at the Payton Jordan meet at Stanford in 2016.
In the men’s 110 hurdles, former Renton resident Devon Allen was second in 13.30 to Jamaica’s Ronald Levy, who ran 13.13.
Allen said afterwards, “It was good because I competed well and got second. I'm still working on a few things and ran in Monaco two days ago and needed to recover quickly so I could run today so that makes me even happier with the performance.”
Neither the men’s 1500 nor the men’s 110 hurdle races were eligible for IAAF Diamond League points.
The IAAF goes into hiatus, as athletes prepare for the various continental championship meets, including the European Championships and NACAC Championships in early August. The Diamond League series returns on August 18th with the final qualifying meet in Birmingham, England, before the Diamond League finals in Zurich and Brussels.
Complete results of the Müller Anniversary Games are available here.
NOTE: The IAAF contributed to this report.
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