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Stacy Dragila, top hurdlers on tap for adidas Track Classic

Posted May 11th, 2007 at 11:39 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Announcements, Track & Field

Women’s pole vault legend Stacy Dragila will continue her comeback, while Olympic gold medalist Allen Johnson and new American Record-holder Dominique Arnold will lead a top-flight 110-meter hurdles field and a pair of world-beaters lead the women’s hurdles at the adidas Track Classic on May 20, organizers announced Thursday.

Part of USATF’s Visa Championship Series, the adidas Track Classic will be broadcast live on ESPN on May 20 from 4-6 p.m. Eastern Time (1-3 p.m. Pacific).

Dragila, whose 2000 Olympic gold medal was the first ever awarded in the women’s pole vault, is a two-time World Champion and nine-time U.S. outdoor champion. A former World Record-holder, at 36 she still holds the American Record of 15 feet, 10 inches, set in 2004, and four times has ranked #1 in the world. At the adidas Track Classic, she will face new American rival Jenn Stuczynski, ranked the #1 US vaulter in 2006 and #6 in the world. Stuczynski is the reigning US champion both indoors and outdoors, and has quickly risen to become the #2 American all-time to Dragila.

In addition to his 1996 Olympic gold medal, Johnson has won seven World titles: four outdoor and three indoor. He is a seven-time U.S. Champion, and at the age of 36 was ranked #2 in the world for 2006. Arnold enjoyed the best season of his career in 2006, when he won a bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships and followed that up by breaking Roger Kingdom’s American Record of 12.92, set in 1989, when he ran 12.90 in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 11.

For more information on the adidas Track Classic, visit www.adidastrackclassic.com. For information on the Visa Championship Series, visit www.visachampionshipseries.com.