Waskom, Moll, Lumb, Pen Freitas & O'Sullivan finish inside Budapest world champs quota...

The national championship window closed on Sunday, and the final list for who is qualified to compete at the world championships in Budapest was published earlier Wednesday by World Athletics.

Please keep in mind that the national federations of the USA, Canada, Portugal, and Ireland have not formally announced their teams for the world championships, but we feel pretty good about this list, pending last minute withdrawals or additions.

This post is a follow up to the post written on July 19th on who's in, not quite in, and needs some help.

Here are the five athletes with Washington ties who are now inside the World Athletics Road to Budapest quotas, and should be named by their country's federations upon receipt of the invitations:

USA

JOE WASKOM:

Going into the weekend, current Husky Joe Waskom (above/Paul Merca photo) was stuck at 1202 world rankings points after he set a new school record in the 1500 of 3:34.64 in Lignano, Italy on July 14th, six days after he finished second at the Toyota USATF championships in Eugene.

There was some thought about possibly going somewhere else in Europe to get one more race in, but on the advice of UW men's head coach Andy Powell, Waskom came home to rest, start a new training cycle for the world championships, and hope that his five-meet average score would hold up.

1192 points is currently the last score inside the quota, so barring the additions of what World Athletics calls "Universality" additions to the field (for countries/federations that don't have a qualified athlete in any event; those countries can enter ONE male or female athlete in the meet, with the World Athletics technical delegates having final say on where they can enter an athlete), Waskom is in and will be on the line at 7:02 pm local time (10:02 am in Seattle) on August 19th with three other runners with Washington ties.

HANA MOLL:

The graduate of Olympia's Capital High School and incoming University of Washington freshman goes into the world championships with a five meet world ranking score of 1154 points, just inside the quota score of 1148 points. 

Like Waskom, she had to hope that her score would hold up, especially after failing to clear a height at the NACAC Under-23 championships in San Jose, Costa Rica on July 21st. 

The NACAC meet was a prime opportunity to pick up bonus points, as the meet was classified as a Category C competition with 60 points for the win, down to 25 for eighth place.

Moll, the reigning world under-20 champion and national high school record holder, will undoubtedly be one of the youngest vaulters lining up in Budapest in the qualifying round on August 21st at 6:40 pm local time (9:40 am in Seattle).

CANADA

KIERAN LUMB

Although he didn't have the world championships qualifying standard of 3:34.20 in hand, Vancouver native and recent UW grad Kieran Lumb  essentially clinched his spot on the team by winning the Canadian championships Sunday in Langley. He ran 3:37.24 and picked up the 100 bonus points for winning nationals, in addition to the 1144 time points.

With two other Canadians holding the standard, Lumb had to make sure that he stayed inside the world rankings quota to go to Budapest.

The win boosted his five-race average from 1199 to 1213 points, which put him in 51st position, inside the 56 that are needed to run the first round of the men's 1500 in Budapest.

He will be on the line at 7:02 pm local time (10:02 am in Seattle) on August 19th with three other runners with Washington ties for the first round of the men's 1500.

PORTUGAL

MARTA PEN FREITAS

The Mississippi State and Brooks Beasts standout entered the weekend with 1200 world rankings points in the women's 1500 after her seventh place finish at the Under Armour Sunset Tour meet in Los Angeles on July 22nd, where she ran 4:09.18.

She skipped running the 1500 at the Portuguese championships in Braga over the weekend, and opted to run the 800 instead, according to a text from Brooks Beasts head coach Danny Mackey. Pen Freitas finished third in 2:05.06.

The women's 1500 first round heats are on the meet's opening day of August 19th at 1:15 pm local time (4:15 am in Seattle).

IRELAND

SOPHIE O'SULLIVAN:

The current Washington Husky finished second at the Irish championships in the women's 1500, running 4:12.00.

O'Sullivan, who entered the weekend outside the world rankings quota with a five-race average score of 1152 points, moved all the way up to 1168 points to put her in the 50th position, with 56 athletes needed to run the first round of the women's 1500.

She'll join Marta Pen Freitas of the Brooks Beasts on the line for the 1500 first round heats on August 19th at 1:15 pm local time (4:15 am in Seattle).

QUICK NOTES...

Three people with Washington ties will be part of USA Track & Field's team staff at the World Track and Field Championships in Budapest.

Mercer Island HS alum Dena (Day) Evans will be the head women's coach for Team USATF. The former Stanford runner and coach will work with the women's distance athletes in addition to her head coaching duties.

She'll be joined by Pam (Spencer) Marquez, a former Seattle Pacific standout and two time US Olympian in the high jump. Spencer holds the SPU high jump record of 6-0.5 (1.84m) set in 1978. She was on the 1980 and 1984 US Olympic teams, and competed twice for Team USA at the Pan American Games in 1975 and 1979.

Spencer Marquez will be in charge of the women's jumps and multi-events.

Finally, Dr. Monique Burton of Seattle Children's Hospital will serve as one of two team doctors on the US national team staff.

The USATF release is available here.

LOOKING AHEAD...

Once the final invitations are extended by World Athletics and announcements of team compositions are made by the federations, paulmerca.blogspot.com will publish a viewer's guide featuring bio information on all the athletes with Washington ties competing at the world championships, similar to what we've done for the world championships and the Olympics.

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NOTE: The sports information office of the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University, USA Track & Field, Athletics Ireland, Athletics Canada, and World Athletics contributed to this report.

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