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USA TRA CK AND FIELD
TEAM
NAMED FOR 2008 BEIJING GAMES
From www.usatf.org
INDIANAPOLIS - An experienced
American team featuring 15 Olympic medalists, 31 World
Outdoor Championships medalists and 10 individual outdoor
American record holders will
represent the United States in track & field competition at
the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
USA Track & Field and the U.S. Olympic Committee on Monday announced a
126-athlete track &
field squad that will be led by multi-time medalists Allyson
Felix, Lauryn Williams, Sanya Richards,
Bernard Lagat, Tyson Gay, Adam Nelson, Bryan Clay and Jeremy
Wariner.
Defending individual Olympic medalists include 2004 gold medalists Shawn
Crawford (M200) and Jeremy Wariner (M400) and silver medalists Lauryn
Williams (W100), Allyson Felix (W200m), Bryan Clay (MDecathlon), Adam Nelson
(MSP), Terrence Trammell (M110mH) and Bernard Lagat (M1,500 while competing
for Kenya). Team USA won a total of 25 medals, eight of them gold, at the
2004 Olympic Games in Athens. It was the highest U.S. medal tally at an
Olympics since the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
Team USA is coming off an incredibly successful showing at the 2007 World
Outdoor Championships in Osaka, Japan, as well, where they won 26 medals, 14
of them gold. That showing tied the World Championships record for gold
medals – Team USA also won 14 in 2005, in Helsinki - and tied the Team USA
record for medal count at a World Outdoors.
"This Olympic Team is one of our strongest ever, with more medal-winning
experience in a wider range of events, from sprints to distances and field
events, than we've had in many decades," said USATF President/Acting CEO
Bill Roe. "While it would take an incredible performance to match our
medal counts of recent championships, we certainly feel that this team has
what it takes to again top the medal tables."
Of the 10 American record holders on the roster, seven have set their ARs in
2007 or 2008, including Tyson Gay, Shalane Flanagan, Kim Kreiner, Breaux
Greer, Jenn Stuczynski, Brad Walker and Suzy Powell-Roos.
The Team USA coaching staffs will be led by head coaches Jeanette Bolden
(women) and Bubba Thornton (men); head managers are Rich Torrellas (women)
and James Li (men).
For more information on Team USA at the Olympic
Games, visit http://www.usatf.org/events/2008/OlympicGames/
Team USA Track & Field Olympic Roster - Women
100m: Muna Lee (Santa
Rosa, Calif.); Torri Edwards (Irvine, Calif.); Lauryn Williams (Miami, Fla.)
200m: Allyson Felix (Los Angeles); Muna Lee (Santa Rosa, Calif.); Marshevet
Hooker (Pfugerville, Texas)
400m: Sanya Richards (Austin, Texas); Mary Wineberg (Cincinnati, Ohio); Dee
Dee Trotter (Knoxville, Tenn.)
800m: Hazel Clark (Knoxville, Tenn.); Alice Schmidt (Chula Vista, Calif.);
Nicole Teter (Eugene, Ore.)
1,500m: Shannon Rowbury (San Francisco); Erin Donohue (Haddonfield, N.J.);
Christin Wurth-Thomas (Springdale, Ark.)
5,000m: Kara Goucher (Portland, Ore.); Jennifer Rhines (Mammoth Lakes,
Calif.); Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, N.C.)
10,000m: Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, N.C.); Kara Goucher (Portland, Ore.);
Amy Begley (Beaverton, Ore.)
Marathon: Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.); Magdalena Lewy Boulet (Oakland, Calif.); Blake Russell (Pacific Grove, Calif.)
3,000m Steeplechase: Anna Willard (Ann Arbor, Mich.); Lindsey Anderson (Ogden, Utah); Jennifer Barringer (Boulder, Colo.)
100m hurdles: Lolo Jones (Baton Rouge, La.); Damu Cherry (Winter Garden,
Fla.); Dawn Harper (Los Angeles)
400m hurdles: Tiffany Ross-Williams (Kissimmee, Fla.); Queen Harrison (Mechanicsville,
Va.); Sheena Tosta (Chula Vista, Calif.)
20 km race walk: Joanne Dow (Manchester, N.H.)
Heptathlon: Hyleas Fountain (Kettering, Ohio); Jacquelyn Johnson (Tempe,
Ariz.); Diana Pickler (Sachse, Texas)
High Jump: Chaunte Howard (Snellville, Ga.); Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.);
Sharon Day (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Pole Vault: Jennifer Stuczynski (Churchville, N.Y.); April Steiner
(Springdale, Ark.); Erica Bartolina (Hammond, La.)
Long Jump: Brittney Reese (University, Miss.); Grace Upshaw (Los Altos Hills,
Calif.); Funmi Jimoh (Stafford, Texas)
Triple Jump: Shani Marks (Brooklyn Park, Minn.); Erica McLain (Plano, Texas)
Shot Put: Michelle Carter (Ovilla, Texas); Kristin Heaston (Opelika, Ala.);
Jillian Camarena (Tucson, Ariz.)
Discus: Aretha Thurmond (Federal Way, Wash.) Suzy Powell-Roos (Modesto,
Calif.); Stephanie Trafton Brown (Galt, Calif.)
Hammer Throw: Jessica Cosby (Mission Hills, Calif.); Amber Campbell (Myrtle
Beach, S.C.); Loree Smith (Eugene, Ore.)
Javelin Throw: Kara Patterson (West Lafayette, Ind.); Kim Kreiner (Fresno,
Calif.)
4x100m relay pool: Muna Lee (Santa Rosa, Calif.); Torri Edwards (Irvine,
Calif.); Lauryn Williams (Miami, Fla.); Angela
Williams (Ontario, Calif.); Mechelle
Lewis (Cary, N.C.); LaShaunte'a Moore (Fayetteville, Ark.); plus anyone
already on the
roster in an individual event
4x400m relay pool: Sanya Richards (Austin, Texas); Mary Wineberg (Cincinnati,
Ohio); Dee Dee Trotter (Knoxville, Tenn.);
Monique Henderson (Chula Vista,
Calif.); Natasha Hastings (Clermont, Fla.); Ebonie Floyd (Fresno, Texas);
anyone
already
on the roster in an individual event
Team USA Track & Field Olympic Roster - Men
100m: Tyson Gay (Clermont, Fla.); Walter Dix (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Darvis
Patton (Ft. Worth, Texas)
200m: Walter Dix (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.); Shawn Crawford (Los Angeles);
Wallace Spearmon (Fayetteville, Ark.)
400m: LaShawn Merritt (Suffolk, Va.); Jeremy Wariner (Waco, Texas); David
Neville (Valencia, Calif.)
800m: Nick Symmonds (Springfield, Ore.); Andrew Wheating (Eugene, Ore.);
Christian Smith (Eugene, Ore.)
1,500m: Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Ariz.); Lopez Lomong (Colorado Springs,
Colo.); Leonel Manzano (Austin, Texas)
5,000m: Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Ariz.); Matt Tegenkamp (Madison, Wis.); Ian
Dobson (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.)
10,000m: Abdi Abdirahman (Tucson, Ariz.); Galen Rupp (Portland, Ore.); Jorge
Torres (Boulder, Colo.)
Marathon: Ryan Hall (Palo Alto, Calif.); Dathan Ritzenhein (Eugene, Ore.);
Brian Sell (Rochester Hills, Mich.
3,000m Steeplechase: Anthony Famiglietti (Knoxville, Tenn.); William Nelson
(Longmont, Colo.); Joshua McAdams (Orem, Utah)
110m hurdles: David Oliver (Kissimmee, Fla.); Terrence Trammell (Atlanta,
Ga.); David Payne (Hampton, Va.)
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