2024 Track Fest: Sifan Hassan, Loaded Men’s Steeple and Women’s 10,000 Highlight Saturday Night’s Meet

8:25 p.m. – Women’s 1500m

Friendly reminder, the US Trials A standard is 4:06.00 and the Olympic auto standard is 4:02.50.

Lucia Stafford – 4:02.03
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford – 3:56.12
Simone Plourde – 4:06.47
Dorcas Ewoi – 4:05.79
Angel Piccirillo – 4:05.32
Dani Aragon – 4:04.50
KM Deeksha – 4:06.07
Molly Sughroue – 4:07.30
Carina Viljoen – 4:07.11
Krissy Gear – 4:09.13
Eleanor Fulton – 4:03.03
Abby Nichols – 4:07.47
Madie Boreman – 4:09.83
Christina Aragon – 4:09.19

8:35 p.m. – Men’s 1500m

Friendly reminder, the US Trials A standard is 3:37.00 and the Olympic standard is 3:33.50.

Thomas Keen – 3:36.43
Amon Kemboi – 3:34.12
Cameron Proceviat – 3:36.09
Maël Gouyette – 3:35.94
Josh Thompson – 3:34.77
Eduardo Herrera – 3:36.09
Paul Ryan – 3:35.82
Robert Heppenstall – 3:35.17
Brett Meyer – 3:36.80
Justine Kipkoech – 3:34.56
Kieran Tuntivate – 3:37.58
David Ribich – 3:35.51

8:45 p.m. – Women’s 5000m: Sifan Hassan returns to the track

Sifan Hassan, the double Olympic champion from 2021 (5000 and 10,000), races for the first time since finishing 4th at the Tokyo Marathon in March. It’s her first track race since she earned the silver in the 5000 at Worlds last year on August 26.

Elise Cranny was entered in this one but no longer is on the start list.

Hassan earned silver in the 5000 in her last race on the track. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images for World Athletics)

Friendly reminder, the US Trials A standard is 15:10.00 and the Olympic standard is 14:52.00.

Natalie Rule – 15:06.50
Izzy Fry – 15:07.76
WuGa He – 15:11.10
Sarah Austin – 15:26.00
Sifan Hassan – 14:13.42
Amy-Eloise Neale – 14:56.50
Erika Kemp – 15:10.10
Lea Meyer – 15:06.39
Ms Ankita – 15:33.03
Jenny Blundell – 15:10.27
Roisin Flanagan – 15:26.32
Taylor Werner – 15:03.13
Hannah Steelman – 15:26.73
Parul Chaudhary – 15:10.35
Esther Gitahi – 15:08.00

9:05 p.m. – Men’s 5000m: Grijalva looks to finds his form

By his lofty standards (4th at Worlds each of the last two years), Luis Grijalva hasn’t been on top of his game so far this year as he was well off the standard at The TEN (where he ran 27:22) and last week he only ran 3:41 in the 1500 (his pb is 3:35.32). What can he do here?

Friendly reminder, the US Trials A standard is 13:25.00 and the Olympic standard is 13:05.00.

Miguel Coca – 13:36.51
Jonny Davies – 13:16.66
Sam McEntee – 13:17.55
Aaron Bienenfeld – 13:18.60
Ryan Schoppe – 7:38.80*
Orlando Cuevas – 13:28.66
Andrew Kent – 13:28.28
Gulveer Singh – 13:29.93
Henry McLuckie – 13:36.23
Antonio Lopez Segura – 13:30.00
Hamza Chahid – 13:32.32
Avinash Sable – 13:19.30
Luis Grijalva – 12:52.97
Titus Winders – 13:38.92

9:20 p.m. – Maurten Women’s 10,000m: D’Amato, Henes & Infeld go for the standard

With Alicia Monson out with injury and Fiona O’Keeffe in the marathon, the US has only two people eligible to go to the Olympics in the 10,000. Weini Kelati picked up the standard at The TEN and Katie Izzo has played the cross country game correctly and has been given the standard via her XC ranking.

A number of US women will try to pick up the standard of 30:40 here to make the Olympic Trials race worth watching, including former marathon American record holder Keira D’Amato, former Worlds 10,000 medallist Emily Infeld, and former NCAA XC champ Ednah Kurgat.

Henes after winning the 2021 NCAA 5000.

2021 NCAA 5000 champ Elly Henes is also in this one and it’s possible she could get in via world ranking even if she doen’t quite hit the standard depending on how many bonus points she picks up. She’s currently the first person out on the Road To Paris rankings list (and may be high enough to get in if not all of the XC spots are used). The US Olympic Marathon Trials surprise 4th placer Jessica McClain also is entered here.

Friendly reminder, the US Trials A standard is 31:30.00 and the Olympic standard is 30:40.00.

Everlyn Kemboi – 32:03.30
Jacqueline Gaughan – 33:09.75
Jennifer Sandoval – 1:12:45*
Carrie Verdon – 31:37.26
Keira D’Amato – 31:05.31
Jessica Gockley-Day – 32:38.57
Emily Infeld – 31:08.57
Jess McClain – 31:54.83
Elena Hayday – 32:41.24
Annamaria Kostarellis – 32:10.96
Marybeth Chelanga – 1:10:55*
XiuZhen MA – 32:17.41
Holly Campbell – 31:44.67
Katrina Spratford-Sterling – 33:07.01
Maya Weigel – 32:14.23
WuGa HE – 31:14.94
Calene Morris – 32:58.84
Ms Seema – 32:07.67
Elly Henes – 30:48.26
Sanjivani Jadhav – 32:21.76
Katja Goldring – 32:56.28
Maggie Montoya – 32:05.22
Hannah Steelman – 33:28.25
Emily Venters – 31:48.75
Ednah Kurgat – 31:12.10
Katrina Coogan – 31:35.59
Alyson Churchill – 15:17.20

9:55 p.m. – Maurten Men’s 10,000m

Friendly reminder, the US Trials A standard is 27:45.00 and the Olympic standard is 27:00.00. Looking at these guys’ PBs, 27:00 is a bit unlikely, but I’ve been defending Stanford’s Cole Sprout’s right to dream big all week on the messageboard.

MB: Is Cole Sprout delusional? Thinks he can run under 27:00 in the 10000

Erik Linden – 64:09*
Andre Waring – 28:30.57
Futsum Zienasellassie – 27:52.70
Cole Sprout – 27:42.42
Jacob Heslington – 29:07.89
Saul Acosta Muro – 28:17.60
Daniel Chaves Da silva -28:19.30
Christopher Maxon – 28:55.71
Alejandro Ambrosio – 13:56.94
Luis Orta – 28:32.46
Casey Clinger – 13:17.36
Ryan Johnson – 28:20.70
Christian Ricketts – 28:17.78
Afewerki Zeru – 28:36.84
Kartik Kumar – 28:01.90
Joseph Trojan – 28:35.16
Joseph Minor – 28:43.31
Isai Rodriguez – 27:52.92
Andrew Colley – 28:26.27
Arturs Medveds – 28:45.67

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