Strong Men’s 3-K Shaping Up for Reebok Boston Indoor Games
Posted January 5th, 2008 at 11:31 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, College
A strong men’s 3000m race is shaping up for the Reebok Boston Indoor Games scheduled for Saturday, January 26 at the Reggie Lewis Track Facility at Roxbury Community College in Boston.
Leading the field will be Australia’s Craig Mottram, the defending champion and the 2005 IAAF World Championships bronze medalist at 5000m. “It will be a good opportunity to measure my race form after some very good training down here in Australia since November,” said Mottram via e-mail from his high altitude training base in Falls Creek, Victoria.
Mottram clocked an Australian record 7:39.24 when he won in Boston last year, running 54.99 for the final 400m despite taking the opportunity to celebrate a little in the final lap. “That was one of my best races, ever,” he told Race Results Weekly after the race. Mottram also won the two-mile event which was held at this meet in 2006.
The key challengers for Mottram will be New Zealander Nick Willis, the 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medalist at 1500m. The former University of Michigan star set his 3000m indoor national record of 7:44.90 at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games in 2004. Tariku Bekele, who will turn 21 just five days before the meet, has an outdoor personal best of 7:29.11, the Ethiopian junior record. Galen Rupp, the NCAA 10,000m record holder for the University of Oregon, has a good opportunity to lower his 7:54.19 indoor personal best. Any of these men could win the race.
Also in the field will be Markos Geneti of Ethiopia (second at last year’s race), and Americans Ed Moran and Rod Koborsi.
For more information on the Reebok Boston Indoor Games or to purchase tickets, visit http://www.bostonindoorgames.com.
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