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EUGENE, Oregon – Track and field legends from Hurdle U Kentucky show off at the United States Olympic Team Trials on the penultimate day of competition Daniel Roberts The American team reached the 110-meter hurdles and Sydney McLaughlin the 400-meter hurdles final.
Roberts, the 2019 Southeastern 110H champion, two-time NCAA runner-up and US champion, all junior for Kentucky, finished third in the finals with a season best of 13.11 (+0.4).
“It means the world, man,” Roberts told Lewis Johnson on the NBC broadcast. “Last season was crazy for all of us so I’m just happy to be here with my boys.”
Current sophomore student in Kentucky Tai Brown ran a huge personal best of 13.32, No. 2 on the British all-time list (behind Roberts) and finished fifth in the final.
“My type Tai, I’m so happy that he is having this experience in such a great atmosphere, a great moment,” said Roberts. “I’m looking forward to what’s in store for him. Back in Kentucky we train together. He’s great. He’ll be one of the best who has ever made it if he just keeps doing his thing, so I’m looking forward to it that he does. ” be with me at this moment. “
Two more Wildcats earned places in Team USA during the trials – Javianne Oliver in the 100m run and Keni Harrison in the 100m hurdles. They will be supported at the Olympic Games by British alumna Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who represents Puerto Rico over the 100 m hurdles, and Leah Nugent, who made the Jamaican team over the 400 m hurdles.
Sydney McLaughlin (53.03Q) ran on the same floor as she reached the 2016 Olympic team as a high school athlete and won the 2018 NCAA 400H title for Kentucky of the most competitive events in an already highly competitive national competition. McLaughlin reduced her first lap Q time by more than a second.
“The goal was just to get out there, do the back stretch and run the pattern that will likely happen tomorrow in the finals, which I did,” said McLaughlin. “From then on it was just maintenance. Had a few switches on my leg, but overall a good time and I’m excited to see what happens.”
The 400H Finals will take place on Sunday at 7:18 p.m. ET on NBC.
UK Class of 2017 Kiah Seymour, who was NCAA runner-up at Hayward Field five years ago, was ninth fastest of the first round (57.18Q) and SEC medalist and current team member Masai Russell was eliminated in the semifinals, Seymour missing the final by one place.
Olivia Gruver, who won the 2018 NCAA pole vault title at Hayward Field in her last college competition in British uniform, finished excruciatingly fourth in the women’s PV.
Gruver missed the Olympic team by one point in a tie-break that resulted in their only failure of the competition. Her top height at 15’1 “/4.60m was shared with Sandi Morris and legend Jenn Suhr. Gruver missed 14’3.25” /4.35 on her first attempt of the day, while Morris passed and then a clean field series over the next had two heights that equaled Gruver to earn the tie-breaker that got Morris, the reigning Olympic silver medalist, on the plane to Tokyo.
Saunders, an NCAA indoor long jump champion, finished sixth in the women’s long jump on her sixth and final attempt with a grade of 22’0.75 “/ 6.71m (+1.4).
Kentucky alumna Dezerea Bryant finished sixth in the 200-meter run final with a season best of 22.24 (+1.3). Bryant placed The 2019 US 200m champions also reached the 100m final earlier in the meeting, considering the two-time NCAA champion for the US 4x100m relay, with Bryant at the Won bronze at the 2019 World Championships.
In the British Athletics Championships, UK Class of 2018 and two-time NCAA Champion Tim Duckworth won the decathlon with a score of 7,447.
Additionally, 2015 British class alumna Leah Nugent qualified for her second consecutive Olympics for Jamaica after finishing third in her national championships over the 400m hurdles on Friday.
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed last year but are still referred to as the 2020 Olympics.
How to qualify for Olympia Olympic
The top three at each event, provided they have the Olympic qualification standard that of. was established World athletics months ago, will automatically receive places in Team USA for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will take place in Tokyo in July-August 2021.
In the coming days and weeks, Olympic team tests and corresponding meetings will take place around the world.
