Walker's Pace: Puskedra Helps Team USA to Fifth Place, Women's 4x100 Breaks Record
Puskedra Helps Team USA to Fifth Place, Women's 4x100 Breaks Record
Saturday, March 28, 4:00 p.m. PDT
Oregon freshman Luke Puskedra helped Team USA to a fifth-place finish at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships Saturday in Amman, Jordan. Puskedra, from Ogden, Utah, ran 24:43 to finish 30th overall in the junior race.
Below
is the men's junior race recap from USATF. Or go to www.usatf.org for
their complete release on all of Team USA's results from Saturday. Also here's a link to results from the IAAF.
Also, the Oregon women's 4x100 meter relay team broke a 16-year-old school record Saturday at Stanford, running 44.64. Check www.goducks.com later this evening for a complete recap.
And one last bit of housekeeping, we finally have a link for results to the Big Green in the Desert multi-events earlier this week, which were won by Oregon's Brianne Theisen (heptathlon) and Marshall Ackley (decathlon).
Luke Puskedra at Saturday's IAAF World Cross Country Championships (photo by Kirby Lee).
Team USA scores three top-five team finishes at 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships
AMMAN,
Jordan- The Team USA junior men's, junior women's and senior women's
cross country squads each finished fifth in the respective team
standings on Saturday at the 37th IAAF World Cross Country
Championships held at the Al Bisharat Golf Course. The Team USA senior
men's team finished eighth as a team.
Two-time USA Junior Cross Country Champion German Fernandez (Stilwater,
Okla.) led Team USA with an 11th-place finish in the junior men's 8 km,
running 24:13. Chris Derrick (Napierville, Ill.) finished seven
seconds behind Fernandez to take 15th place as Luke Puskedra (Ogden,
Utah) and Patrick DuPont (Fairport, N.Y.) wrapped up the team score,
running 24:43 and 25:52, finishing 30th and 48th respectively.
Ayele Abshero ran 23:26 to capture the second individual title of the
day for Ethiopia as Kenya took their first of three team titles.
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