Team USA Roster Set for Beijing Olympics
Posted July 14th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
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USA Track & Field released its Olympic squad today, and the experienced team, which includes 15 Olympic and 31 outdoor World Championships medalists, will be amongst the strongest in Beijing.
“This Olympic Team is one of our strongest ever, with more medal-winning experience in a wider range of events, from sprints to distances and field events, than we’ve had in many decades,” said USATF President and acting CEO Bill Roe in a prepared statement.
Team USA won a total of 25 medals, eight of them gold, at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In Osaka last summer at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, the Americans won 26 medals (14 gold), which tied the world championships record for gold medals.
America’s prowess in the sprints is well-established, and there is little doubt that stars like Allyson Felix, Sanya Richards, Tyson Gay, and Jeremy Wariner will contend for both individual and realy gold medals. However, the team also has surprising strength in the middle and long distances. While double world champion Bernard Lagat is the most prominent, marathoners Ryan Hall and Deena Kastor, and distance doublers Shalane Flanagan and Kara Goucher also have legitimate chances to medal (Kastor won bronze in Athens in the marathon).
“While it would take an incredible performance to match our medal counts of recent championships, we certainly feel that this team has what it takes to again top the medal tables,” Roe added.
The most experienced Olympian is high jumper Amy Acuff who is on her fourth team. Women’s 400m hurdler Queen Harrison, 19, is the youngest member of the team, while racewalker Joanne Dow, 44, is the oldest.
The complete team is listed below:
100m: Muna Lee (Santa Rosa, Calif.); Torri Edwards (Irvine, Calif.); Lauryn Williams (Miami, Fla.)
200m: Allyson Felix (Los Angeles); Muna Lee (Santa Rosa, Calif.); Marshevet Hooker (Pfugerville, Texas)
400m: Sanya Richards (Austin, Texas); Mary Wineberg (Cincinnati, Ohio); Dee Dee Trotter (Knoxville, Tenn.)
800m: Hazel Clark (Knoxville, Tenn.); Alice Schmidt (Chula Vista, Calif.); Nicole Teter (Eugene, Ore.)
1,500m: Shannon Rowbury (San Francisco); Erin Donahue (Haddonfield, N.J.); Christin Wurth-Thomas (Springdale, Ark.)
5,000m: Kara Goucher (Portland, Ore.); Jennifer Rhines (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.); Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, N.C.)
10,000m: Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, N.C.); Kara Goucher (Portland, Ore.); Amy Begley (Beaverton, Ore.)
Marathon: Deena Kastor (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.); Magdalena Lewy Boulet (Oakland, Calif.); Blake Russell (Pacific Grove, Calif.)
3,000m Steeplechase: Anna Willard (Ann Arbor, Mich.); Lindsey Anderson (Ogden, Utah); Jennifer Barringer (Boulder, Colo.)
110m hurdles: Lolo Jones (Baton Rouge, La.); Damu Cherry (Winter Garden, Fla.); Dawn Harper (Los Angeles)
400m hurdles: Tiffany Ross-Williams (Kissimmee, Fla.); Queen Harrison (Mechanicsville, Va.); Sheena Tosta (Chula Vista, Calif.)
20 km race walk: Joanne Dow (Manchester, N.H.)
Heptathlon: Hyleas Fountain (Kettering, Ohio); Jacquelyn Johnson (Tempe, Ariz.); Diana Pickler (Sachse, Texas)
High Jump: Chaunte Howard (Snellville, Ga.); Amy Acuff (Isleton, Calif.); Sharon Day (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Pole Vault: Jennifer Stuczynski (Churchville, N.Y.); April Steiner (Springdale, Ark.); Erica Bartolina (Hammond, La.)
Long Jump: Brittney Reese (University, Miss.); Grace Upshaw (Los Altos Hills, Calif.); Funmi Jimoh (Stafford, Texas)
Triple Jump: Shani Marks (Brooklyn Park, Minn.); Erica McLain (Plano, Texas)
Shot Put: Michelle Carter (Ovilla, Texas); Kristin Heaston (Opelika, Ala.); Jillian Camarena (Tucson, Ariz.)
Discus: Aretha Thurmond (Federal Way, Wash.) Suzy Powell-Roos (Modesto, Calif.); Stephanie Trafton Brown (Galt, Calif.)
Hammer Throw: Jessica Cosby (Mission Hills, Calif.); Amber Campbell (Myrtle Beach, S.C.); Loree Smith (Eugene, Ore.)
Javelin Throw: Kara Patterson (West Lafayette, Ind.); Kim Kreiner (Fresno, Calif.)
4×100m relay pool: Muna Lee (Santa Rosa, Calif.); Torri Edwards (Irvine, Calif.); Lauryn Williams (Miami, Fla.); Angela Williams (Ontario, Calif.); Mechelle Lewis (Cary, N.C.); LaShaunte’a Moore (Fayetteville, Ark.); plus anyone already on the roster in an individual event
4×400m relay pool: Sanya Richards (Austin, Texas); Mary Wineberg (Cincinnati, Ohio); Dee Dee Trotter (Knoxville, Tenn.); Monique Henderson (Chula Vista, Calif.); Natasha Hastings (Clermont, Fla.); Ebonie Floyd (Fresno, Texas); anyone already on the roster in an individual event
Team USA Track & Field Olympic Roster - Men
100m: Tyson Gay (Clermont, Fla.); Walter Dix (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Darvis Patton (Ft. Worth, Texas)
200m: Walter Dix (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.); Shawn Crawford (Los Angeles); Wallace Spearmon (Fayetteville, Ark.)
400m: LaShawn Merritt (Suffolk, Va.); Jeremy Wariner (Waco, Texas); David Neville (Valencia, Calif.)
800m: Nick Symmonds (Springfield, Ore.); Andrew Wheating (Eugene, Ore.); Christian Smith (Eugene, Ore.)
1,500m: Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Ariz.); Lopez Lomong (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Leonel Manzano (Austin, Texas)
5,000m: Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Ariz.); Matt Tegenkamp (Madison, Wis.); Ian Dobson (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.)
10,000m: Abdi Abdirahman (Tucson, Ariz.); Galen Rupp (Portland, Ore.); Jorge Torres (Boulder, Colo.)
Marathon: Ryan Hall (Palo Alto, Calif.); Dathan Ritzenhein (Eugene, Ore.); Brian Sell (Rochester Hills, Mich.
3,000m Steeplechase: Anthony Famiglietti (Knoxville, Tenn.); Billy Nelson (Longmont, Colo.); Joshua McAdams (Orem, Utah)
110m hurdles: David Oliver (Kissimmee, Fla.); Terrence Trammell (Atlanta, Ga.); David Payne (Hampton, Va.)
400m hurdles: Bershawn Jackson (Raleigh, N.C.); Kerron Clement (Gainesville, Fla.); Angelo Taylor (Decatur, Ga.)
20 km race walk: Kevin Eastler (Aurora, Colo.)
50 km race walk: Philip Dunn (San Diego, Calif.)
Decathlon: Bryan Clay (Glendora Calif.); Trey Hardee (Austin, Texas); Tom Pappas (Manhattan, Kan.)
High Jump: Jesse Williams (Eugene, Ore.); Andra Manson (Austin, Texas); Dustin Jonas (Lincoln, Neb.)
Pole Vault: Derek Miles (Tea, S.D.); Jeff Hartwig (Jonesboro, Ark.); Brad Walker (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.)
Long Jump: Trevell Quinley (Chula Vista, Calif.); Brian Johnson (Baton Rouge, La.); Miguel Pate (St. Francisville, La.)
Triple Jump: Aarik Wilson (Lawrence, Kan.); Kenta Bell (Decatur, Ga.); Rafeeq Curry (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Shot Put: Reese Hoffa (Athens, Ga.); Christian Cantwell (Columbia, Mo.); Adam Nelson (Charlottesville, Va.)
Discus: Ian Waltz (Chula Vista, Calif.); Michael Robertson (Beebe, Ark.); Casey Malone (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Hammer Throw: A.G. Kruger (Ashland, Ohio)
Javelin Throw: Leigh Smith (Destrehan, La.); Mike Hazle (Chula Vista, Calif.); Breaux Greer* (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
4×100m relay pool: Tyson Gay (Clermont, Fla.); Walter Dix (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Darvis Patton (Ft. Worth, Texas), Travis Padgett (Shelby, N.C.); Rodney Martin (Raleigh, N.C.); Leroy Dixon (Los Angeles); plus anyone already on the roster in an individual event
4×400m relay pool: LaShawn Merritt (Suffolk, Va.); Jeremy Wariner (Waco, Texas); David Neville (Valencia, Calif.); Reggie Witherspoon (Baltimore, Md.); Calvin Smith (Gainesville, Fla.); Darold Williamson (Waco, Texas); plus anyone already on the roster in an individual event
* USATF rules enable the track & field chair to allow the selection of an injured athlete who competed in the Olympic Trials but did not final, and who has reached the A standard, as long as another athlete is not displaced from the team.
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