Tegenkamp takes 10th in World Championships 10k

 Competing in his third World Outdoor Championships and just his third 10k on the track, Matt Tegenkamp took 10^th in the 10,000 meters Sunday night in Daegu, South Korea. Tegenkamp couldn’t stay with the lead pack halfway through the race and finished in 28:41.62. 19 runners started the race with 16 finishing.

28 August 2011 - 19:30

Place    Bib      Athlete                                 Country  Time    

  1        373      Ibrahim Jeilan                         ETH    27:13.81         

  2        439      Mohamed Farah                     GBR    27:14.07         

  3        377      Imane Merga                          ETH    27:19.14         

  4        323      Zersenay Tadese                     ERI     27:22.57         

  5        660      Martin Irungu Mathathi            KEN    27:23.87         

  6        652      Peter Cheruiyot Kirui              KEN    27:25.63          (PB)

  7        1120    Galen Rupp                          USA    27:26.84          (SB)

  8        379      Sileshi Sihine                           ETH    27:34.11         

  9        665      Paul Kipngetich Tanui             KEN    27:54.03         

10       1129    Matthew Tegenkamp           USA    28:41.62 

11        861      Rui Silva                                 POR    28:48.62         

12        574      Daniele Meucci                       ITA     28:50.28         

13        890      Stephen Mokoka                    RSA    28:51.97         

14        1062    Scott Bauhs                          USA    29:03.92         

15        630      Yuki Sato                               JPN     29:04.15         

16        763      Juan Carlos Romero               MEX   29:38.38         

DNF    206      Ali Hasan Mahbood               BRN   

DNF    310      Bayron Piedra                        ECU   

DNF    365      Kenenisa Bekele                    ETH   

DNS    321      Teklemariam Medhin              ERI     

http://daegu2011.iaaf.org/ResultsByDate.aspx?racedate=08-28-2011/sex=M/discCode=10K/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#detM_10K_hash_f

Universal Sports screen captures:

The lead pack moves up on Tegenkamp and others with less than two laps remaining. 

Ibrahim Jeilan of Ethiopia tries to catch England’s Mo Farah as they approach the finish.

Tegenkamp hits the finish line with one lap to go just after Ibrahim Jeilan kicked down Mohamed Farah in a great finish to the 10k. 

Tegenkamp does run the 10k! at the World Championships Sunday

Former Missouri High School State Champion/Record Holder and Lee’s Summit native Matt Tegenkamp will run just his third career 10k on the track Sunday in Daegu South Korea at the World Championships. The race is scheduled for 7:30pm which is 5:30am in Missouri. I have to apologize this post is late and won’t provide acceptable notice before the race.

As a sophomore Tegenkamp helped Dave Denny’s Lee’s Summit High School team to the 1997 MSHSAA Class 4 Boys Cross Country State Title. In 1999 Tegenkamp claimed the Class 4 Boys XC individual championship in course record time and went on to earn Cross Country All-American honors with his fifth place finish at Footlocker Nationals. At the 2000 State Track Meet Tegenkamp earned two more State Titles and a State Meet Record with his time in the 3200 meters. Tegenkamp blazed the Dwight T Reed Stadium Track in Jefferson City that Friday Night as rain delayed the meet several hours. His 8:57 3200 performance that night gave him the State Meet Record. He followed that up with a 4:11 1600 meters win on Saturday.

As a freshman at The University of Wisconsin, Tegenkamp ran to a fifth place finish at the World Junior Cross Country Championships. He and US teammate Dathan Ritzenhein’s 3^rd place made for one of the best US duo finishes at the World XC Championships.

2011 IAAF Outdoor World Track & Field Championships, includes five Missourians

2011 IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships

13^th biennial Championships

Daegu, South Korea

Five native Missourians are apart of Team USA while several others with Missouri ties will also be involved. Daegu is 14 hours ahead of Missouri and Central Standard Time.

Rodgers withdraws from Worlds, Mitchell replaces him on 4x1 team pool squad

Michael Rodgers breakout on the Outdoor World stage will have to wait while another Missourian will take his place and get his first chance to wear the Red, White, and Blue with the world watching. Rodgers, who in June jumped to a tie for ninth on the world all-time 100 meter performance list with his 9.85 second time at the Prefontaine Classic, accepted a provisional suspension from the US Anti-Doping Agency and withdrew from the World Championships after testing positive for a banned stimulant: methylhexaneamine, which is found in energy drinks.

Rodgers, the St. Louis native, Berkeley High School grad, NAIA national champion at Lindenwood and Oklahoma Baptist Universities, and 2009 USA 100 meter champion was to compete in the 100 meters and 4 x 100 meter relay at the World Championships in Daegu South Korea that began yesterday. Rodgers, who earned a spot on the US team after his third place finish at this years national meet, said on twitter that he unknowingly consumed the stimulant when he drank an energy drink in Italy in July while training and competing with the US team in preparation for the World Championships.

The 2011 IAAF World Championships are under way!

The 2011 IAAF World Track & Field Championships are underway in Daegu South Korea. Five native Missourians are apart of Team USA while several others with Missouri ties will also be involved. Deagu is 14 hours ahead of Missouri and Central Standard Time. Here is the first day’s schedule and the webcast and television schedule. I’ll have another post tonight before 11pm with info on all of the Missouri connections and info about the athletes. The first Missourian to compete will be Matt Tegenkamp in the 10,000 which will be Sunday morning at 5:30 CST.

4 Missourians part of Team USA for Thorpe Cup: Lefever, Adock, McMillan, Lettow

Four Missourians are apart of Team USA in the annual Thorpe Cup this weekend in Chula Vista California at the USA Track & Field National Training Center. The Thorpe Cup is a combined events competition between the USA and Germany featuring a women's heptathlon and men's decathlon with seven athletes per country per gender. The event is named after Jim Thorpe I believe, the former multi-sport athlete who excelled at just about everything he seemingly tried in the early 20th century. The competition will also include a few Americans competing in a few selected events in preparation for the World Championships later this month.