The week that was (ending July 4th)...

Took a couple of days off after the US Olympic Trials to catch up on matters at home and work.

Without further ado, here's what we missed over the last few days:

FOUR ATHLETES WITH WASHINGTON TIES NAMED TO THEIR OLYMPIC TEAMS...

Marta Pen Freitas (Paul Merca photo) of the Seattle based Brooks Beasts, Washington alum Izzi Batt-Doyle, former Washington State volunteer coach Liga Velvere and Federal Way native Jordin Andrade were all named by their country's federations to their respective Olympic teams for the delayed Tokyo Olympics that begin at the end of the month.

Pen Freitas, whose best mark since the qualifying period began of 4:06.94, set indoors in Boston on February 28, 2020, was added by the Portuguese federation after the World Athletics qualifying period closed last week based on her number 48 world ranking.

While she did not hit the qualifying standard in the 1500 meters of 4:04.20, she was ranked high enough to fill the field of 45 entries required to run the proper number of rounds after automatic qualifiers were placed. She did win the Portuguese national championship in late June, running 4:10.36.

Batt-Doyle goes into the Olympics in the 5000 as their top runner, after Oregon alum and fellow Australian Jessica Hull opted to only run the 1500, despite also qualifying at 5000.

The 2019 UW grad has a personal best over 5000 of 15:04.10, set in late May in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Liga Velvere of Latvia will run in her first Olympics after qualifying on the strength of her number 56 world ranking in the 800 meters.

Velvere has a best time of 2:01.68 in the qualifying period, set in Padova, Italy on July 16, 2019.

Andrade, who represents Cape Verde, is entered in the Olympics as its country's lone male track & field athlete. Andrade, who has a season best of 51.17 set in May at the USATF Golden Games at Mt. SAC, will make his second appearance in the Olympics, after reaching the semis in Rio five years ago.

The quartet join marathoner Jake Riley (Bellingham), javelin thrower Kara Winger (Vancouver), pole vaulter Katie Nageotte (Pullman), and 110 hurdler Devon Allen (Renton) of the United States, along with Josh Kerr (Great Britain/Brooks Beasts) in the 1500, Amy-Eloise Markovc (Great Britain/UW) in the 5000, and Gianna Woodruff (Panama/UW) in the 400 hurdles, all of whom qualified for their teams at their national championships and/or were pre-selected.

Here's a great link from World Athletics to see who is qualified and named to compete in the Olympics.

LAWRENCE NINTH AT STOCKHOLM DIAMOND LEAGUE; GRUVER SEVENTH...

Washington alum Mel Lawrence finished ninth in the 3000 steeplechase at Sunday's Wanda Diamond League stop in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lawrence ran 9:30.26, as Kenya's Hyvin Kiyeng won in a meet record 9:04.34.

In a Diamond League non-scoring event, fellow UW alum Olivia Gruver finished seventh in the pole vault, clearing 14-3.5 (4.36m), as Russia's Polina Knoroz won with a best of 15-5.5 (4.71m).

Two days before, Gruver opened her European tour by finishing second at the Stavhoppsgala meet in Täby, clearing 15-3 (4.65m).

Results of the Stockholm Diamond League meet are available here.

BROOKS PR INVITATIONAL...

Two open events were contested at Friday's (7/2) Brooks PR high school invitational at Renton Stadium.

In the men's 800, Olympic Trials 5th place finisher and 2019 world championships team member Brannon Kidder of the Brooks Beasts won the event, running 1:45.43, ahead of Beasts teammate Drew Windle's 1:47.90.

Canada's Natalia Hawthorn won the women's 1500, running 4:04.67, just in front of Washington alum Eleanor Fulton's 4:06.53.

Washington incoming freshman Nathan Green of Borah HS in Idaho won the boys mile in 4:01.76.

Complete results of the Brooks PR Invitational are available here.

NOTE: World Athletics, the Wanda Diamond League, and Brooks Running contributed to this report.

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