Discus Qualifying – 61.00m is the auto mark.

 

60.74 for Kelsey Card in Discus qualifying in the opening throw of the competition. She leads the first flight after the first round. She passes her second attempt.

 

Tera Novy is second after the first round with a 59.28 and Allman third with 58.46m. No one improved in the second round. Summers and Garcia have yet to throw a legal mark.

Summers and Garcia open the third round with legal marks. Summers only gets the disc out to 47.37, but Garcia throws 54.87m to move up to 7^th in the flight. Card passed again, but is the only thrower to surpass 60 meters.

Maroszek improves in round 3 with a 56.46. Daniels also improves with a 56.94m. Podominick improves to 55.76 and Ewen improves to 55.73 to close out the first flight.

 

 

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Women's High Jump. Two pits are going simultaneously.1.93m is the auto mark to go to the final. Opening height is 1.74m

Amy Acuff clears opening height. She is 40 and a 5-time Olympian.

Both pits have moved to their second height of 1.79m. Dakota Dailey-Harris and Sara Almen both no-heighted at 1.74m. Ty Butts and Loretta Blaut cleared on their second attempts. McPherson, Cunningham, Lowe and Fagan passed. All others were over on their first attempt.

 

Cunningham clears 1.79 on her first attempt. McCoy, Boyer and Butts also over on first attempts. Lowe over as well. Acuff knocks the bar off. Evans and Bloch-Jones both fail first attempts. McPherson is the only jumper to pass 1.79m.

 

 

Pressley, Smith and Fagan clear 1.79 on second attempts. Acuff also clear on second attempt.

 

Evans clears on her third attempt of 1.79.

 

Bar moves up to 1.84m. Live results are not updating.

 

Boyer misses on her first attempt. Pressley also misses. Pretty breezy in the stadium. Smith is the first to clear. Blaut knocks the bar off. Boyer and Bloch-Jones also miss.

 

 

 

Fagan misses, but Paterson makes it. Evans and Mason also miss. Butts misses. Lowe, McPherson, Cunningham and Smith are also clear. This may be the height they need to qualify for the final, but still many athletes still to jump.

 

 

Boyer misses her second attempt. Pressley clears on her second attempt, but Bloch-Jones misses for a second time. Fagan also with a second miss. Blaut lands on the bar hard in her second attempt. Evans...knocks it off on the way down.

 

6 women have cleared 1.84. Mutts misses on her second attempt. Evans also now has 3 misses. Jackson clears on seconds. Fagan clear on her third. Whitehorn clear on second. Pilgrim clears on 3^rd. McCoy and Mason are finished. Acuff does not advance. Will not contend for a sixth Olympic spot.

 

 

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 Men's Shot Put Qualifying. Check back here for continued updates when action resumes this afternoon. Also, be sure to check out the Big Board.

11:00 - The first event of Tracktown16 is the qualifying for the men's shot put. Two rings will be throwing simultaneously to cut the field of 24 down to 12 for the final. 20.50m is auto qualifying distance.

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11:14 - Round 1

 

Cory Martin first attempt: 19.84m

 

Garrett:19.16m

 

Crouser: 20.14m

 

Murasky: Foul

 

Blair: Foul

 

They are throwing quick. Hard to update.

 

Grace 19.82

 

Hill: 20.25

 

Jenson: Foul

 

Clarke: Close to the auto line. 20.59m He is done for the morning.

 

Pope: 18.46

 

Freeman: Foul. Not even close to legal.

 

Dechant: 18.55

 

Jones: Close to the auto line, but 20.36. Just short.

 

Vicars: 18.74

 

Kovacs: That should be over the line to auto qualify. 20.75m. He is done until the final.

 

Whiting: 19.97m

 

Pless: 20.37m. Personal best. Could be enough to make the final.

 

Roberts: 19.90m

 

Hoffa: The ageless is close to the auto line. 20.38m. Not quite. Currently 4^th.

 

Steen: 17.83m

 

Nelson: The return of Adam Nelson sees him throw 20.22m

 

Thormaehlen: 20.36m

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11:22 - Round 2

 

Round 2:

 

Martin: Foul

 

Murasky: Foul

 

Crouser: 20.97 gets him the auto mark for the final.

 

Garrett: Foul

 

Hill: 20.56 puts him into the final.

 

Pope: 18.10

 

Moore is a foul

 

Dechant:18.89 Slight improvement.

 

Freeman:19.27m First fair throw

 

Vicars: No improvement

 

Whiting: 19.84. No improvement, but still top 10 currently

 

Jones: Foul

 

Pless: 19.32

 

Roberts: Foul. Currently 11^th.

 

Hoffa: No improvement for Hoffa. Curretnly 4^th.

 

Steen: 18.73

 

Nelson: Foul. Outside the sector.

 

Thormaehlen: Foul

 

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11:22 - Round 2

 

Martin: Foul

 

Murasky: Foul

 

Crouser: 20.97 gets him the auto mark for the final.

 

Garrett: Foul

 

Hill: 20.56 puts him into the final.

 

Pope: 18.10

 

Moore is a foul

 

Dechant:18.89 Slight improvement.

 

Freeman:19.27m First fair throw

 

Vicars: No improvement

 

Whiting: 19.84. No improvement, but still top 10 currently

 

Jones: Foul

 

Pless: 19.32

 

Roberts: Foul. Currently 11^th.

 

Hoffa: No improvement for Hoffa. Curretnly 4^th.

 

Steen: 18.73

 

Nelson: Foul. Outside the sector.

 

Thormaehlen: Foul

 

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11:30 - Round 3:

 

Appier: 20.16

 

Blair: Foul

 

Dechant: 19.04m

 

Jensen: 19.66m

 

Pope: Intentional Foul

 

Whiting: Currently 12^th. Can he improve? Foul.

 

Moore: Foul

 

Roberts: Nearly fouled, but held it together. But was unable to improve. He will not make the final.

 

Freeman: 19.07

 

Steen: 19.03

 

Jones: Currently 7^th. 19.53m

 

Thormaehlen: 19.40m

 

Pless: Big throw, but fouled it. Likely will make the final anyways.

 

Hoffa and Nelson choose not to take their last throws as they are already in the top 12.

 

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11:33 - Our final tonight will consist of:

 

- Ryan Crouser: Q20.97m

 

- Joe Kovacs: Q20.75m

 

- Jordan Clarke: Q20.59m

 

- Darrell Hill: Q20.56m

 

- Reese Hoffa: q20.38m

 

- David Pless: q20.37m

 

- Jon Jones: q20.36m

 

- Jacob Thormaehlen: q20.26m

 

- Adam Nelson: q20.22m

 

- Garrett Appier: q20.21m

 

- Ryan Whiting: q19.97m

 

- Bobby Grace: q19.93m

Kurt Roberts (19.90m) and Cory Martin (19.84m) were the first non-qualifiers.