Husky volunteer assistant Amos Bartelsmeyer wins elite 800m at TrackTown Youth League Champs...
Bartelsmeyer ran 1:48.33, ahead of Oregon’s James West, who was second at 1:48.36.
Fellow Husky volunteer coach Sam Prakel was third at 1:48.73, while current Husky Mick Stanovsek was fifth at 1:53.99.
In the women’s elite 800, Washington alum Baylee Mires, who now competes for Under Armour, finished second in a season best 2:03.09, just 9/100ths of a second over the USATF outdoor qualifying standard, as Stanford alum Rebecca Mehra won in 2:03.04.
Fellow Husky alum Eleanor Fulton dropped down in distance and finished fourth in 2:06.10, while Olympia’s Brooke Feldmeier did not finish.
In the men’s 1500, 2016 Olympian Hassan Mead, who attended high school at Emerald Ridge in Puyallup before moving to Minnesota, finished fourth in 3:41.87, as three-time Olympian Lopez Lomong won in 3:37.62.
The three elite races were added to the youth championship meet in order to give athletes an opportunity to record qualifying times for either the USA championships, the world championships and/or the Olympics.
Complete results of the elite races at the TrackTown Youth League championship meet are available here.
DIAMOND LEAGUE ACTION RETURNS SUNDAY AS STANFORD HOSTS NIKE PREFONTAINE CLASSIC…
After a two-week break, the IAAF Diamond League returns to action as Stanford University’s Cobb Track & Angell Field hosts the Nike Prefontaine Classic Sunday, which is the only North American stop on the Diamond League tour.
With Historic Hayward Field in Eugene undergoing renovation this year in preparation to host the 2021 IAAF World Track & Field Championships, the Pre Classic was shifted to Stanford.
Four athletes with Washington ties will compete in Sunday’s Pre Classic, which starts at 12:43 pm with the men’s pole vault, and concludes just before 3 pm with the climactic Bowerman Mile run.
Washington alum Mel Lawrence, who has run in two Diamond League meets so far this season, is entered in the steeplechase at 1:11pm, where she is ranked #20 in the current IAAF world rankings so far this season.
Lawrence set a personal best on June 13th at the Bislett Games, running 9:29.81, and more importantly, ducked under the Olympic qualifying standard.
Former Renton resident Devon Allen makes his outdoor season debut in the 110 hurdles at 1:56 pm. Allen’s only outdoor competition so far this season was at the IAAF World Relays, where he ran in the mixed shuttle hurdles relay, helping Team USA win.
At 2:31 pm, Camas’ Alexa Efraimson is part of a 17-woman field in the 1500 meters. Efraimson, who is ranked #15 in the world so far this season in her event, was ninth at the Diamond League meeting in Shanghai on May 18th, running 4:04.53, before setting a season best of 4:04.06 in Nanjing three days later and attaining the Olympic qualifying standard.
In the final race of the day, Washington volunteer assistant coach and reigning Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz makes his 2019 season debut in the Bowerman Mile.
Centrowitz, who is now running for the Bowerman TC, faces a field that includes world indoor mile record holder Yomif Kejelcha from Ethiopia and the Nike Oregon Project, along with Jakob Ingebrigtsen from Norway, Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti and Americans Clayton Murphy, Craig Engels and Ben Blankenship.
NBC Sports will have live coverage of the Nike Prefontaine Classic beginning at 1 pm, Pacific.
The start list for the Nike Prefontaine Classic is available here, while an event-by-event preview is available here.
NOTE: TrackTown USA and the Nike Prefontaine Classic contributed to this report.
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