Husky alum Ed Trippas may have run his way onto Australian World Champs team in steeple...

At the IFAM Outdoor Meeting in Oordegem, Belgium Saturday, Washington grad Ed Trippas (Paul Merca file photo) may have just put himself on Australia's world championship team in the steeplechase.

Trippas, whose previous personal best was 8:21.54 set last month in Liege, Belgium, dropped it down to 8:13.15, well under the world championship standard of 8:15.00. It is also an Australian national record, breaking the previous record of 8:16.22 set by Shaun Creighton on July 2, 1993.

France's Louis Gilbert won the race in 8:11.49, as the top five finishers all set personal bests. In fact the top eight finishers all were at or under 8:15.00.

Trippas, who was a grad transfer to Washington from Princeton, competed in the Tokyo Olympics as well as the 2022 World Championships in Eugene (Paul Merca file photo).

Going into Saturday, no Australian had met the qualifying standard of 8:15.00, with the highest ranked being number 34 (36 is the quota).

Trippas holds the Washington school record of 8:31.36, set in 2023.

Washington alum Kieran Lumb won the men's 1500, running 3:34.49, just off of his personal best of 3:34.25, set in June at the Brooks PR meet in Renton.

Former Husky and two time Olympian Sam Tanner was 13th in 3:52.75.

In other events, Justin O'Toole won his heat of the men's 800.

O'Toole, who set a new UW school record last week at the Canadian national championships when he ran 1:45.51 in Ottawa, ran 1:45.71.  He finished eighth overall, as Ireland's Cian McPhillips, running in heat 1 of 5, was the overall winner in 1:44.34, as the top seven all came from the top section.

Washington alum Carley Thomas finished sixth in the top section of the women's 800, running 2:02.20, as Spain's Rocío Arroyo Soria won in 1:59.17.

Thomas is inside the World Athletics "Road To Tokyo" quota in the 800 at 45th (56 is the entry number), but four Australians have gone under the world championships standard of 1:59.00.

Washington alum India Weir just set a new PB in the women's 5000 a week after finishing second in the British championships at that distance, running 15:01.92 to take eighth.

Joy Cheptoyek of Uganda won in a personal best 14:40.27, as the top two went under the Tokyo standard of 14:50.00.

Washington's Amina Maatoug of the Netherlands finished ninth in the top section of the women's 1500 in 4:05.96, as Spain's Marina Martínez Ortuño won in 4:03.33.

In the B section of the men's 5000, Washington alum Jack Rowe ran to a personal best 13:14.62 to finish seventh in the heat.

Complete results of the IFAM Outdoor Meeting are available here.

At the Sir Walter Miler meet Friday night in Raleigh, North Carolina, Seattle resident Sam Prakel finished fifth, running 3:53.12.

Former Stanford star Ky Robinson took the victory in 3:50.80

In the women's race, Woodinville native Olivia Markezich ran to a personal best 4:26.82 for a sixth place finish.

Gracie Morris took the win in 4:23.74.

Complete results of the Sir Walter Miler meet are available here.

NOTE: The IFAM Outdoor Meeting, and the Sir Walter Miler meeting contributed to this report.

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