Us olympic trials 3000m steeplechase

All three women represented Ethiopia at the World Championships, so, despite their young age, they will have already gained some valuable experience ahead of making their Olympic debut.

US champion Emma Coburn will once again be a medal contender. Olympic bronze medallist in , world champion in and world silver medallist in , Coburn is always in the mix at major events. She fell at the last water jump in her final pre-Olympic race at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco, eventually finishing fourth in Regardless, assuming she makes no such mistake in Tokyo, Coburn will be in the medal hunt.

Gesa-Felicitas Krause is another strong championship performer. The German won European golds in and , sandwiched between world bronze medals in and By any measure, the men's m steeplechase has been Kenya's event. Athletes from the east African athletics powerhouse have captured the discipline at all but two Olympic Games since - and those were the two the nation boycotted.

But for the first time in recent memory its squad will be arriving at an Olympic Games without a reigning world or Olympic champion. Conseslus Kipruto, the champion in Rio five years ago and winner at the past two World Championships, did not finish his race at the Kenyan Trials last month, and won't be in Tokyo to defend his title. Hopes are high for Bett, the world U18 champion, African champion and World Championships finalist, who took the top honours at the brutally competitive Kenyan Olympic Trials on 19 June, clocking He's raced sparingly this season, however, so his true form won't be revealed until opening round action gets under way on Friday 30 July.

Like Bett, Kibiwott, 25, was also a finalist at the World Championships where he finished seventh, so he too also brings major competition experience to the Japanese capital. The year-old has an The most recent came in Monaco on 9 July where he finished second in Kigen, 28, was sixth at the last World Championships and raced to victory at the African Games earlier that year, and with several Wanda Diamond League and World Athletics Continental Tour victories to his credit, is also a proven commodity on the international stage.

But with an Kigen had been in the lead up until the point the athletes realised there was another lap to go. To keep their streak alive, the Kenyan trio will have to get past a short list of proven stars who will arrive as the favourites. Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali, 25, battled to silver and bronze, respectively, at the last two World Championships, has a dozen sub performances to his name and a He's raced sparingly but well this season, winning at the Golden Gala in Florence in Lamecha Girma, meanwhile, burst on to the world stage with a stunning performance at the World Championships, where the then year-old fiercely battled Kipruto to the line, only to be beaten to gold by a scant 0.

After a somewhat low-key , Girma has raced just once outdoors this year but made it count, winning in Monaco on 9 July in Compatriot Getnet Wale, the Diamond League champion and fourth-place finisher at the World Championships later that year, was initially named in the steeplechase but now looks to be focusing solely on the m.

Behind them, the form chart is less certain. France comes armed with Djilali Bedrani Bedrani finished fifth at the World Championships in Hillary Bor, the US Trials champion, was seventh in Rio and eighth at the last World Championships, and could also be in medal contention. Meanwhile, local hopes lie with Ryuji Miura, the year-old who twice broke the national record this year, first with Previews 23 Jul Tokyo Olympics preview: m steeplechase. Coburn, who earned a medal of every color among the Olympics, Worlds and Worlds, won the m steeple in She qualified for a third Olympics by winning a seventh consecutive U.

Annie is doing well now, has completed 22 rounds of chemotherapy, with more to come, and is in Eugene this week. Frerichs took second to Coburn on Thursday, just as she did at the Worlds in a historic U. Constien chopped 7.

In Tokyo, they take on powerful Kenya, led by world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech. The U. None of the marathoners from made it back, either. The m final is still to come. She now ranks second in the world in this Olympic cycle, trailing two-time world champion Gong Lijao of China.

Ramsey, who added nearly three feet to her career best, is joined on the Olympic team by Olympian Raven Saunders and Adelaide Aquilla. Rio gold medalist Michelle Carter watched the competition from the stands after a June 3 surgery to remove a benign right ankle tumor.