USATF announces World Champs team of 151 athletes for Oregon22...
Athletes selected themselves for the team by virtue of placing in the top three at the Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships, assuming that they also possessed the qualifying standard, or received an invitation by World Athletics to fill the field based on their world ranking at the end of the qualifying period on June 26th.
A select few received automatic byes into the world championships as defending champions from the 2019 meet in Doha, including Nia Ali (women's 100m hurdles), Donavan Brazier (men's 800m), Christian Coleman (men's 100m), Grant Holloway (men's 110m hurdles), Joe Kovacs (men's shot put), Noah Lyles (men's 200m), Dalilah Muhammad (women's 400m hurdles), DeAnna Price (women's hammer) and Christian Taylor (men's triple jump).
Three other athletes earned byes into the World Championships by virtue of winning the 2021 Wanda Diamond League overall title in their event -- Valarie Allman (women's discus), Michael Cherry (men's 400m) and Maggie Ewen (women's shot put). Kendell Williams earned a bye in the women's heptathlon by winning the World Athletics Combined Events Tour.
Included among the medalists from last summer's Olympics are individual gold medalists Allman, Ryan Crouser (men's shot put), Sydney McLaughlin (women's 400m hurdles), Athing Mu (women's 800m) and former Pullman resident Katie Nageotte (women's pole vault). Making her 10th World Championships appearance is Allyson Felix, who has 18 career medals, including 13 golds, and will be in the mixed 4x400m relay pool.
In addition to Nageotte (Paul Merca photo), athletes with Washington ties on Team USATF include Vancouver native Kara Winger, who makes her sixth and final appearance in the javelin; former Renton resident Devon Allen, who was a finalist in Doha in the 110 hurdles, where he finished seventh; and, Vancouver native Daniel Nehnevaj, who makes his world championships debut in the 20 kilometer walk.
Fans can also watch the World Track & Field Championships starting July 15th in primetime on NBC, USA Network and streaming on Peacock.
paulmerca.blogspot.com will be in Eugene for the duration of the World Track & Field Championships and provide daily coverage of the meet.
BATT-DOYLE GETS FOURTH IN CORK, WHILE NAGEOTTE FINISHES FOURTH AT AMERICAN TRACK LEAGUE ATLANTA STOP...
On Tuesday night, Washington alums Izzi Batt-Doyle and Julius Diehr competed at the BAM Cork City Sports International Athletics meeting in Cork, Ireland.
Batt-Doyle finished fourth in the women's 3000 meters, running 8:56.29, while Diehr was seventh in the men's 3000 in a personal best 7:54.37.
In a result we missed, Katie Nageotte finished fourth in the pole vault at the American Track League Stars and Stripes Classic in Marietta, Georgia on July 2nd.
Nageotte cleared a best of 14-11 (4.55m), as training partner and world indoor champ Sandi Morris won at 15-3 (4.65m).
ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA TO HOLD PRE-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TRAINING CAMP AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON...
If you happen to be walking around the campus of the University of Washington and see a bunch of athletes in Australian kit or see them running along the Burke-Gilman trail, there's a good reason why.
In a press release announcing its team for the world championships, Athletics Australia also announced that it will hold its training camp at Husky Track on the UW campus before heading down Interstate 5 to Eugene for the World Track & Field Championships.
Australia's squad of 64 athletes includes defending world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber in the javelin, along with the newest Husky, Ed Trippas, who comes to the University of Washington as a grad transfer from Princeton, where he finished fifth in the 3000 steeplechase at the NCAA championships.
Trippas was a Tokyo Olympian last year, after setting his personal best of 8:19.60 on June 29th in Castellon, Spain to hit the Olympic standard.
Washington has had a pipeline of athletes in recent years from Australia, including Tokyo Olympian Izzi Batt-Doyle, and current Huskies Carley Thomas from Sydney, Sophie O'Sullivan from Melbourne, and Elle Rutherford from Gold Coast.
NOTE: World Athletics, Oregon22, USA Track & Field, and the Cork City Sports International Athletics meeting contributed to this report.
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