Tim Duckworth & Amos Bartelsmeyer to compete in European Championships next weekend...
Here’s a spattering of news and notes compiled over the last few days:
British Athletics has named Tim Duckworth (left/photo by Paul Merca) to its team for the 2019 European Championships March 1-3 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Duckworth, who won both the heptathlon and the decathlon at the NCAA championships for the University of Kentucky, is now living in the Seattle area and training under Husky associate head coach Toby Stevenson, who coached him at Kentucky.
Last year, Duckworth was ranked tenth in the world by Track & Field News in the decathlon after winning the NCAA championships and finishing fifth at the European Championships in Berlin.
Last Friday, Duckworth won the long jump (25-2.75/7.69m) at the UW Last Chance College Elite meet, and won the 60 hurdles the week before at the Husky Classic, running 8.10.
The British Athletics announcement is available here.
Another athlete with UW ties who will compete at the European Championships next week is Amos Bartelsmeyer, who finished second at the German national championships in the 3000, where he ran 7:54.39, to finish behind Sam Parsons, another German-American from Colorado, who ran 7:53.71.
The Georgetown alum has been training in Seattle under Husky head coach Andy Powell, and surprised everyone at last month’s UW Indoor Preview where he ran 3:55.32, to finish second behind Yomif Kejelcha’s facility record 3:52.61.
Bartelsmeyer, who was born in Aschaffenburg before moving with his parents to the USA when he turned 2, proved two weeks later that his 3:55 was no fluke when he won the UW Invitational 3000 in 7:49.47.
Here’s his Instagram post:
Here’s the German federation recap of Bartelsmeyer’s race from last weekend (in German).
Two results we missed in our recap of the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday was Washington alum Amy-Eloise Neale’s ninth place finish in the 3000, where she ran 9:01.27, as Alemaz Samuel of Ethiopia won in 8:54.60.
Also in that men's 1500 in which Ethiopia's Samuel Tefera went 3:31.04 to set the world record, Josh Kerr of the Seattle based Brooks Beasts finished fourth in a personal best 3:35.72.
Results of the Müller Indoor Grand Prix are available here.
NOTE: British Athletics and the German Athletics Federation contributed to this report.
Duckworth, who won both the heptathlon and the decathlon at the NCAA championships for the University of Kentucky, is now living in the Seattle area and training under Husky associate head coach Toby Stevenson, who coached him at Kentucky.
Last year, Duckworth was ranked tenth in the world by Track & Field News in the decathlon after winning the NCAA championships and finishing fifth at the European Championships in Berlin.
Last Friday, Duckworth won the long jump (25-2.75/7.69m) at the UW Last Chance College Elite meet, and won the 60 hurdles the week before at the Husky Classic, running 8.10.
The British Athletics announcement is available here.
Another athlete with UW ties who will compete at the European Championships next week is Amos Bartelsmeyer, who finished second at the German national championships in the 3000, where he ran 7:54.39, to finish behind Sam Parsons, another German-American from Colorado, who ran 7:53.71.
The Georgetown alum has been training in Seattle under Husky head coach Andy Powell, and surprised everyone at last month’s UW Indoor Preview where he ran 3:55.32, to finish second behind Yomif Kejelcha’s facility record 3:52.61.
Bartelsmeyer, who was born in Aschaffenburg before moving with his parents to the USA when he turned 2, proved two weeks later that his 3:55 was no fluke when he won the UW Invitational 3000 in 7:49.47.
Here’s his Instagram post:
Here’s the German federation recap of Bartelsmeyer’s race from last weekend (in German).
Two results we missed in our recap of the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday was Washington alum Amy-Eloise Neale’s ninth place finish in the 3000, where she ran 9:01.27, as Alemaz Samuel of Ethiopia won in 8:54.60.
Also in that men's 1500 in which Ethiopia's Samuel Tefera went 3:31.04 to set the world record, Josh Kerr of the Seattle based Brooks Beasts finished fourth in a personal best 3:35.72.
Results of the Müller Indoor Grand Prix are available here.
NOTE: British Athletics and the German Athletics Federation contributed to this report.
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