Kenneth Rooks to run second steeple of 2025 season at Monaco Diamond League Friday...
The clock is ticking to qualify for the USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, which happens July 31-August 3rd. Ditto for the international athletes, as they try to qualify for the various national championship meets happening that weekend, which World Athletics has blocked on their calendar.
The next few weekends will see a bevy of domestic and international meets, as athletes try to either post qualifying marks to enter their championships, or accumulate enough World Athletics rankings points.
In Monaco, Olympic silver medalist Kenneth Rooks (Paul Merca photo) makes his season Wanda Diamond League debut at the Herculis EBS meet Friday.
The steeple in Monaco will be a rematch of the Paris Olympics, featuring defending champion Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco, and bronze medalist Abraham Kibiwot of Kenya.
Rooks has only run one steeple this season at the Sound Running Track Fest in Los Angeles on May 24th, where he ran 8:14.25.
Since that meet, he ran the 5000 at the Portland Track Festival, where he set a personal best of 13:26.65. He then ran in a low key meet in Tomblaine, France on July 4th, running 3:41.12 for 1500 meters
Opening up the television window of the Herculis EBS meet is the women's 400 hurdles with Washington alum Gianna Woodruff. She'll face a field that includes Femke Bol of the Netherlands, as well as Woodruff's training partner Dalilah Muhammad.
Flotrack ($) will stream the Monaco Diamond League meet starting at 11 am Pacific time.
MORTON GAMES ON TAP FRIDAY...
Friday in Dublin, Ireland, a small group of current and former Huskies will race at the Morton Games meet.
Washington alum Eleanor Fulton, who set a personal best in the 3000 at Wednesday's Cork City Sports International meet in Cork, will be joined by current Huskies Julia David-Smith and Mia Cochran in the women's 1500.
David-Smith is using the meet as a tuneup for next weekend's European Athletics Under-23 meet in Bergen, Norway, where she'll run the 5000 for France. Cochran, who has a best this season of 4:12.65, needs to go under 4:12 to get under the minimum standard to enter the meet, keeping in mind that they will only take the top 36 entries.
Washington alum and Irish Olympian Brian Fay will make an appearance in his home town, running in the Morton Mile.
The Morton Games will be streamed on the European Athletics YouTube channel starting at 10:50 am Pacific time, or you can watch it Friday below (may be geoblocked in certain countries):
NOTE: European Athletics, World Athletics, the Wanda Diamond League, and the Morton Games contributed to this report.
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