Elite List for BAA Invitational Mile on 4-14
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Olympic Games and World Championships
Medalists Highlight B.A.A. Invitational Mile Field
Nick Willis (NZL) and Kalkidan Gezahegne (ETH) are Top
Contenders.
$14,500 Prize Purse at Stake in the Event, held on Sunday,
April 14.
BOSTON ÛÒ The
Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) today announced that an international
field of elite athletes will compete in the B.A.A. Invitational Mile to be held
on Sunday, April 14, 2013, one day before the 117th Boston Marathon®.
Highlighting the menÛªs field is Nick Willis (NZL), a silver medalist at
1500 meters in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 2010 IAAF World Indoor
Championships 1500 meter gold medalist Kalkidan Gezahegne (ETH) will look to
lead the women. The B.A.A. Invitational Mile also features a Middle School
1,000 meter race and Scholastic Mile, held immediately before the professional
mile races.
With a one-mile personal best of 3:50.66, Willis is the
fastest man in the field. He will face 2012 Olympian, Glastonbury,
Conn. native and Washington resident Donn Cabral and 2012
U.S. Road Mile champion Craig Miller (CO). Also competing is Ross Murray (GBR)
who ran a 3:52.77 mile last year at the age of 21, defeating Willis at the
Aviva London Grand Prix. Rounding out the field are Ben Bruce (AZ), who placed
third in last yearÛªs B.A.A. Invitational Mile; Peter van der Westhuizen
(RSA), who earned three top five finishes in road mile races in 2012; and six-time
NCAA All-American DeÛªSean Turner (IN).
Highlighting the womenÛªs field is Gezahegne, who holds
a 1500 meter personal best of 4:00.97. A talented group of Americans are also
expected to be in contention for the win, including 2012 Olympian Geena Gall (MI);
2012 Fifth Avenue Mile and Falmouth Mile champion Brenda Martinez (CA); Heather
Kampf (MN), 2012 U.S. Road Mile champion; Chelsea Reilly (CA), 2012 U.S. 10K
champion; and 2012 B.A.A. Invitational Mile third-place finisher Gabriele
Anderson (MN). Also in the field is two-time NCAA All-American Violah Lagat
(KEN), the sister of two-time Olympic medalist and six-time IAAF World
Championships medalist Bernard Lagat.
ÛÏWith the Boston Marathon finish line as its backdrop,
the B.A.A. Invitational Mile brings the energetic atmosphere of a track meet to
Boylston Street,
as runners from the Boston
area and around the world compete in front of cheering fans,Û said B.A.A.
Executive Director Tom Grilk.
ÛÏWe are proud to host a world class field of professional runners, as
well as top middle school and high school age runners from the Boston Marathon
host communities, to our event.Û
The B.A.A. Invitational Mile includes six different races,
held shortly after the Fifth B.A.A. 5K on Sunday, April 14. The first two races
feature middle school age students from the eight cities and towns of the
Boston Marathon course ÛÒ Hopkinton, Ashland,
Framingham, Natick,
Wellesley, Newton,
Brookline, and Boston. The girlsÛª and boysÛª
Middle School 1,000 meter races include runners between sixth and eighth grade
and finish at the Boston Marathon finish line in front of thousands of
spectators.
Following the Middle School 1,000 meter race is the
Scholastic Mile, which features girlsÛª and boysÛª one-mile races for
high school age students from the eight cities and towns of the Boston Marathon
course. The Scholastic Mile follows the same three-lap USATF-certified course
the professional athletes run, finishing at the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street.
Schedule of Events ÛÒ Sunday, April
14, 2013
8:00 a.m. ET
Fifth B.A.A. 5K
First race of the 2013 B.A.A. Distance Medley
9:30 a.m. ET
GirlsÛª Middle School 1,000 meters
BoysÛª Middle School 1,000 meters
9:50 a.m. ET
GirlsÛª Scholastic Mile
BoysÛª Scholastic Mile
10:05 a.m. ET
MenÛªs Professional Mile
WomenÛªs Professional Mile
B.A.A. Invitational Mile MenÛªs Field (as of April 5, 2013)
NAME
COUNTRY
AGE PERSONAL BEST
Nick Willis
NZL 29
3:50.66 (3:30.35)
Ross
Murray
GBR 22
3:52.77 (3:34.76)
Peter van der
Westhuizen
RSA 28
3:54.90 (3:35.33)
Craig
Miller
USA/CO
25 3:56.41 (3:36.35)
Donn
Cabral
USA/WA 23
3:56.41i (3:40.03)
DeÛªSean
Turner
USA/IN 24 3:59.17 (3:46.22)
Ben
Bruce
USA/AZ
30 4:06.52 (3:45.53)
B.A.A. Invitational Mile WomenÛªs
Field (as of April 5, 2013)
NAME
COUNTRY
AGE PERSONAL BEST
Kalkidan
Gezahegne
ETH
21 4:24.10i (4:00.97)
Gabriele
Anderson
USA/MN
26 4:27.94 (4:04.84)
Brenda
Martinez
USA/CA
25 4:26.76 (4:06.96)
Chelsea
Reilly
USA/CA
23 4:30.18 (4:24.49)
Heather
Kampf
USA/MN
26 4:37.13i (4:12.09)
Geena
Gall
USA/MI 26 4:31.75i (4:12.23)
Violah
Lagat
KEN 24
4:39.42 (4:13.30)
( ) ÛÒ Indicates 1500 meter track performance
i ÛÒ Indicates indoor track performance
