Ole Miss Track & Field joins the US Olympic Trials

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EUGENE, ore. – Ole Miss Athletics has ended his 10-day stint at Hayward Field after four rebels competed in the finals on Sunday’s 2021 US Olympic Trials final day.

Oregon and the entire Pacific Northwest are in the midst of an intense heat wave and the temperature reached dangerous levels on Sunday, adding a five-hour delay to most of the scheduled finals. All three final events that the rebels were supposed to attend on Sunday – the men’s long jump (Allen Gordon), 1500 meter men (Craig Engels, Waleed Suliman) and the men’s 200-meter run (Isiah Young) – were all affected.

The first thing after the long delay was All-American senior Allen Gordon in the long jump, which was nearing the end of its warm-up phase with a heat of 110 degrees and a scorching track surface of 130 degrees and beyond, before the competition was interrupted. After the resumption, Gordon came into the top 8 shortly before the final and landed in ninth place, just four centimeters behind at 7.86 m / 25-09.50 (-0.1). For Gordon this was the first career final in the USA, which concluded an excellent season as one of the all-round constant jumpers of the NCAA in the long jump, high jump and triple jump.

The men’s 1,500 meter final was one for the ages before the gun went off, and it didn’t disappoint afterwards. The first round ran through in 58.50 minutes before the usual 1,500-meter tactic of jockey and the occasional kick kicked in. Craig Engels was in a similar position to the semi-finals as he was surrounded by heavy traffic.

When the group started moving 200 meters from the finish, Engels tried to repeat his semi-final performance and set off for an opening. He followed Cole Hocker from Oregon through a clearing and finished third ahead of Yared Nuguse from Notre Dame just before the finish line, but Nuguse still had one gear in the tank and kept Engels on the way for third place and a trip to Tokyo. Hocker, the reigning NCAA champion, impressed when he tracked down four runners over the last 300 meters and with 3: 35.28 over the 2016 Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz (3: 35.34) and Nuguse (3: 36.19) won.

Engels finished fourth at 3: 36.69, a torturous ending after suffering several heartbreaking fourth places in the 2016 US Olympic Trials and 2017 US Championships before hitting the US team in 2019, which is technically one of the most Top 3 Americans with the Olympic qualifying standard as Hocker has not yet broken the 3: 35.00 standard while Centrowitz, Nuguse and Engels have. However, it is very likely that Hocker will take this place on Team USA alongside Centrowitz and Nuguse, based on the combination of his world rankings and his top placement in the trials.

Waleed Suliman finished a strong first meeting as a professional runner and finished 11th overall in his first US final at 3: 40.08.

Isiah Young, a 2012 Olympian in the 200-meter run, wanted to make a return to the Games at the event, but ran into a blazing-fast final. Young finished fifth with a strong 20.03 (+0.3), but he should have improved his season best of 19.99 by more than a tenth and he would also have had to beat his 2013 career PR of 19.86 to get into the Team to come.

After 10 days of competition, Team USA is mostly set to Tokyo – apart from a few waiting times for world ranking quotas from World Athletics. Ole Miss has qualified three former student athletes – Sam Kendricks in the men’s pole vault, Brittney Reese in the women’s long jump, and Raven Saunders in the women’s shot put – as well as current volunteer coach Jessica Ramsey in the women’s shot put. Ramsey attended collegially in Western Kentucky but has trained in Oxford and has been a volunteer assistant at Ole Miss since 2015-16.

The Tokyo Olympics begin with the opening ceremony on July 23, and the athletics portion will take place from July 30 to August 8. You can find the full schedule for the games HERE.

Ole Miss Track & Field in Team USA

Sam Kendricks – Men’s Pole Vault
Jessica Ramsey (Volunteer Trainer) – Women’s shot put
Brittney Reese – Women’s Long Jump
Raven Saunders – Women’s Shot Put

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