The five-woman team will be announced later Sunday night.
Advertisement
Suhr stamped her place as perhaps the greatest pole vaulter in USA history.
She qualified in the 400, blazing past the other runners down the stretch to win with a time of 49.68.
“Like father, like son, ” Matthew Centrowitz said. Jenny Simpson and Shannon Rowbury grabbed the top two spots, and Martinez and Amanda Eccleston leaned for third before collapsing. Running isn’t her life.
“I wasn’t sure”, Felix said.
“But I’m happy that it happened because it got me third place”, Prandini said. But I am very disappointed and it goes in waves.
Simone Biles is closing in on an automatic spot on the U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team.
After qualifying for the sprint hurdle final with the sixth-fastest time of the preliminary round at 13.88 (-1.1), Chase placed sixth overall at her national championships when she crossed the finish line in 13.57 (+0.6). Biles has a total of 77.4 points through five rotations, almost two points clear of Laurie Hernandez.
The last step on Felix’s road to the 200-400 double figures to finally feature some drama Sunday at the U.S. Track and Field Trials. Emily Infeld and Abbey D’Agostino finished fourth and fifth. Robbie Andrews finished second in 3:34.88.
“My mind was on finishing the race and eating a cheeseburger”, she said.
Olympic champion Allyson Felix failed to make the US team in the 200 meters at the American trials on Sunday, ending her dream for a rare 200-400 meters double at Rio Olympics. Byron Robinson and Michael Tinsley also punched their tickets to Rio . Sunday marked the final day of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Allyson Felix will not defend her 200m Olympic title in Rio after failing to qualify, but will race in the 400m.
Also off the table – the 200-400 Olympic double.
World champion Tori Bowie gained the victory in the 200 in 22.25 seconds with collegian Deajah Stevens (22.30) and a lunging Jenna Prandini (22.53) edging Felix.
The Rider graduate was sitting eighth with three events remaining in the heptathlon heading into the final day of the U.S. Olympic Trials. And yes, she surely has them as she is now the youngest Rio Olympics qualifier.
That’s because he already had completed the Olympic standard jump of 7 feet, 6 inches.
Besides Suhr, Morris and third-place finisher Alexis Weeks of Arkansas will represent the U.S.in the event in the Rio Games.
Long jumper Lewis, the sister of nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl, did not compete at the 1980 Moscow Games because the United States boycotted the event. “Enjoy it”, said Felix, who marched in the opening ceremony at Athens, Beijing and London and plans to march in Rio. Isinbayeva beat out Suhr in 2008 for her second straight Olympic gold, before taking bronze in the London Games that Suhr won.
Advertisement
“She isn’t going, ” McCabe said of the World Juniors. Kim Conley had some bad luck in the 10K she was stepped on, lost a shoe and eventually dropped out to save her energy for this race.
