Batt-Doyle runs a season best, while Fulton and Maatoug earn personal bests in 5000m in Liege...
Amina Maatoug came to Liege to run fast.
Batt-Doyle finished fifth, while Fulton was seventh and Maatoug eleventh Wednesday on a beautiful evening in a very competitive race.
Current Husky Chloe Foerster was the designated pace setter for the race, as she took the field through the first kilometer in 2:58, and kept going through the seven-minute mark before pulling off the track.
Batt-Doyle, who already has the Tokyo world championships standard in the marathon, was determined to keep the pace rolling in order to get under the 14:50 automatic mark. The Australian qualified for the Olympics in this event last year when she ran 14:49.75 in this very same meet, after being passed over for the Paris Games in the marathon.
The field was just slightly behind 14:50 pace entering the bell lap, with Batt-Doyle leading and Klara Lukan of Slovenia a half step behind.
Fellow Australian Maudie Skyring took the win in a personal best 14:49.93, with Lukan second in 14:50.40.
Belgium's Elise Vanderelst was third in 14:51.13, followed by Sweden's Sarah Lahti in 14:52.69, then Batt-Doyle in fifth at 14:52.69.
Fulton was fifth in 15:15.82 in a personal best, beating her old mark of 15:19.19 set in 2022.
Maatoug was rewarded with a 12th place finish in a big personal best and Washington school record 15:22.81, taking down her old personal best of 15:35.93 set in June at the NCAA championships.
Complete results of the Meeting International d’Athlétisme de la Province de Liège are available here.
WASHINGTON ALUM KIERAN LUMB THIRD IN LUZERN TUESDAY...
For folks who were wondering why two time Canadian national champion Kieran Lumb (Paul Merca photo) was not in Burnaby defending his Harry Jerome 1500 title Tuesday night, it's because he opted to go to Switzerland to run in the Spitzen Leichtathletik Meeting in Luzern Tuesday.
Lumb, whose season best of 3:34.25 run at the Brooks PR meet last moth is the second fastest time in the country so far this season, was third in a time of 3:35.04.
Portugal's Jose Carlos Pinto took the win in 3:34.60, followed by France's Pierrik Jocteur-Monrozier in 3:34.95.
The replay of the race is below (starts at 1:25:00):
NOTE: The Meeting International d’Athlétisme de la Province de Liège, the Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern, and the sports information office of the University of Washington contributed to this report.
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