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Jen Rhines' runner-up finish (8:35.03) and Shalane Flanagan's fourth-place finish (8:35.34) in today's 3,000 meter race at the Herculis meeting in Monaco move them to #3 and #4, respectively, on the U.S. all-time performers list.
Mary Slaney has the top seven U.S. marks of all time, including her American record of 8:25.83 set in 1985. Libbie Hickman occupies the #2 spot on the performers list with an 8:35.02 from 2000. Rhines and Flanagan come immediately after Hickman both on the performers and performances list, and their times are the ninth and 10th fastest U.S. performances of all time.
Deena Kastor (seventh, 8:44.45) and Michelle Sikes (eighth, 8:44.73) also ran well. Kastor wasn't far off her PR of 8:42.59, which she set in 2000, and the time was a PR for Sikes.
Although Flanagan's time was an outdoor PR, her indoor PR of 8:33.25, which is the indoor American record, is slightly faster.
Posted by Alison Wade at 3:49 p.m. | Tags: Race Reports, Statistics
Scotty B. commented, on July 25, 2007 at 4:05 p.m.:
Great to see the American women running well and showing off some of the new depth that is coming about.