Posted: July 2, 2007

Athletics (RRW): USA Sets Pan Am Games Team

From David Monti © 2007 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved RaceResultsWeekly.com Correction (8:41 a.m.) - Robinson Not On USA Team For Pan Am Games Karen Locke, who represents Khadevis Robinson, has alerted your editor that, despite the recent USATF announcement, the U.S. 800m champion will NOT compete in the Pan Am Games. "Just to clarify, KD will not compete at Pan Am Games," Locke wrote in an e-mail. "The travel is too much after being in Europe prior." USATF will have to name a replacement. Since Nick Symmonds has already passed on the team, Jonathan Johnson and Lopez Lomong would be next in line, going down the rank order of finish from the recent AT&T USA Outdoor Championships, which was the selection meet. USA Track & Field released their athlete roster for the Pan Am Games scheduled for Rio de Janeiro later this month. A team of 48 men and 46 women will compete from July 22 - 29. They qualified by virtue of their rank-order of finish at the recent AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. In the middle and long distance events, the athletes best-positioned to win a medal are the recently crowned U.S. 800m champions, Khadevis Robinson (1:43.68 PB) and Alysia Johnson (1:59.29 PB). The complete middle & long distance roster is below. MEN - 800m: Khadevis Robinson (Dallas, Texas) Duane Solomon (Lompoc, Calif.) 1500m: Andrew McClary (Shelton, Wash.) Said Ahmed (Jamaica Plain, Mass.) 3000m S/C: Joshua McAdams (Broadview Heights, Ohio) Thomas Brooks (Glenview, Ill.) 5000m: Ed Moran (Dayton, N.J.) Bolota Asmerom (San Francisco, Calif.) 10,000m: Jorge Torres (Wheeling, Ill.) Jason Hartmann (Boulder, Colo.) Marathon: Christopher Lundstrom (Northfield, Minn.) Jacob Frey (Oakton, Va.) WOMEN - 800m: Alysia Johnson (Canyon County, Calif.) Morgan Uceny (Plymouth, Ind.) 1500m: Mary Jane Harrelson (Knoxville, Tenn.) Lindsay Gallo (Freehold, N.J.) 3000m S/C: Lisa Galaviz (Gilbert, Ariz.) Desiraye Osburn (Kechi, Kan.) 5000m: Cack Ferrell (Eugene, Ore.) Mandi Zemba (Menominee, Mich.) 10,000m: Alicia Craig (Gilette, Wy.) Emily McCabe (Queensbury, N.Y.) Marathon: Emily Mortensen (Alamosa, Colo.) Christine Lundy (Bangor, Maine) Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest