WORLD LEADER FOR BEGLEY AT BRUTUS HAMILTON INVITATIONAL
By David Monti
(c) 2010 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
Amy Begley of Portland, Ore., ran a world-leading 8:53.73 for 3000m at
last night's New York Road Runners Distance Carnival at the Brutus
Hamilton Invitational meeting at Edwards Stadium at the University of
California at Berkeley. Begley, a 2008 Olympian at 10,000m, clocked
the fastest time on U.S. soil in nearly two years. Her mark was also
an outdoor personal best for the 32 year-old.
Canada's Malindi Elmore finished second in 8:57.97, and Japan's Yuriko
Kobayashi, who had hoped to challenge Kayoko Fukushi's national record
of 8:44.40, faded in the closing laps to finish third in 9:01.39.
Eight women broke 9:15.00 in the race.
In other action, Olympian Galen Rupp opened his outdoor season with a
controlled 13:32.53 victory in the 5000m. Rupp, 23, who used the race
as a tune-up for his U.S. 10,000m record attempt at the Payton Jordan
Cardinal Invitational next Saturday at Stanford University, beat
Mexico's Juan Carlos Romero (13:34.27) and Japan's Kensuke Takezawa
(13:47.30) who finished second and third, respectively.
Results of the men's 10,000m were impacted by unusually strong winds,
and hopes of a 27:40 race were dashed. Japan's Yuki Sato of the Nissin
team did best, winning the race in 28:27.93. His compatriots Yuta
Takahashi and Takeshi Makabe finished second and third, respectively,
in 28:36.86
and 28:40.23. American Brett Gotcher, who ran an impressive 2:10:36 marathon debut at Houston last January, dropped out.
The two-day meet continues today.
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