THE WRAP: Recap of British, Canadian, Spanish and Irish championships...

While the focus of the past weekend was on Eugene and the Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships, there were other national championships happening around the world involving athletes with Washington ties:

BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS...

Josh Kerr (photo courtesy British Athletics) of the Seattle based Brooks Beasts, who has a wild card into the world championships as the defending world champion at 1500 meters, was an easy winner of the men's 5000 at the British Athletics championships in Birmingham.

Kerr, who hadn't run a 5000 in over three years, cruised to the win in 13:44.73.

Washington alum India Weir finished second in the women's 5000, running 15:47.98.

Former Washington State sprinter and Olympian Louie Hinchliffe finished third in the men's 100, running 10.01, after clocking 10.15 in the semifinals.

Washington State's Nana Gyedu was third in the shot put with a best of 51-3.75 (15.64m).

Complete results of the British Athletics championships are available here.

CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS...

In Ottawa, Washington alum Kieran Lumb, who earlier last week announced that he was leaving UW coach Andy Powell's pro group to train in Norway under Gjert Ingebrigtsen, won the Athletics Canada championship in the 5000 meters.

Lumb won in a time of 13:40.53.

In Sunday's 1500 final, Lumb, the two time defending national champion, was out kicked and finished third in a time of 3:59.40 (and that is not a mile time).

Another Washington alum, Justin O'Toole, took defending world 800 meter champion Marco Arop of Edmonton to the wire. Arop won in 1:45.44, with O'Toole second in a UW school record 1:45.51.

Washington alum Aaron Ahl was second in the men's steeplechase in 8:31.68.

Incoming senior Chloe Thomas was third in the women's 5000, running 15:25.47.

Washington State graduate Jasneet Nijjar, who was on Canada's Olympic pool in the 4 x 400 relay, finished fifth in the 400 in 52.75.

Incoming freshman Chloe Symon finished fourth in the Under-20 400 in 54.24, and third in the U20 800 in 2:07.51.

Results of the Athletics Canada championships are available here.

SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIPS...

In Tarragona, Spain, Washington rising sophomore Sofia Cosculluela (photo courtesy Real Federación Española de Atletismo), finished second in the heptathlon at the Spanish national championships, scoring exactly 6000 points.

After competing in her second heptathlon in two weeks, Cosculluela won the 100 hurdles in 13.54, then cleared 5-5 (1.65m) in the high jump. She then threw the shot 42-2.25 (12.86m), then set a personal best in the 200, running 24.00.

In day 2, she long jumped 19-4 (5.89m), then got off a solid throw of 154-9 (47.18m) in the javelin.

She set her second personal best of the competition in the 800, running 2:18.82, eclipsing her previous personal best of 2:19.93 set at last year's Spanish national championships, where she won the heptathlon.

Cosculluela becomes the second Husky over 6000 points in school history, just behind Ida Eikeng's 6114 points in 2023.

Complete results of the Spanish national championships are available here.

IRISH CHAMPIONSHIPS...

Washington alum Brian Fay finished second in the men's 5000 at the Athletics Ireland national championships in Dublin over the weekend.

In a sit and kick race, Fay, the defending champion, could not overcome the fast finish of winner Andrew Coscoran, who won in 13:34.14 to Fay's 13:34.92.

Sophie O'Sullivan, who has the world championships standard, when she ran 4:00.03 in the 1500 at the Paris Olympics last year, did not compete. 

She and Sarah Healy are currently the only Irish athletes with the standard.

Results of the Athletics Ireland championships are available here.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Between now and August 24th is the time when athletes can either chase the qualifying standards or earn enough world ranking points to put themselves in the quota to compete in Tokyo in six weeks.

After the qualifying period closes, World Athletics will publish its weekly rankings, with the rankings on August 27th determining the final list of athletes eligible for entry through the world rankings.

The Road to Tokyo rankings can be accessed here (updated every Wednesday).

NOTE: World Athletics and Athletics Canada, British Athletics, Athletics Ireland, and Real Federación Española de Atletismo contributed to this report.

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