NCAA Championships: Prelims Results
The NCAA Championships got off to a slow start today with the preliminary round. Every athlete was given three attempts with the top twelve finishers qualifying for Friday's final round. Jenny Dahlgren automatically qualified on her first attempt, but was the only woman to do so. Brittany Riley, the other favorite in Friday's final, struggled with a foul and a poor throw. She found herself sitting near the bottom of her flight until she bettered 65 meters on her final attempt. After the strongest year in collegiate women's hammer throwing history, a mere 57 meters qualified for the final.
The men's competition was no better. Cory Martin easily hit the automatic qualifying mark on his first attempt and Nick Ownes bettered it on his second attempt. However, they were the only two automatic qualifiers. The final qualifying also has some interesting characteristics compared to years past: only two of the finalists are foreign-born and ten of the finalists are upperclassmen. Also interesting is that four of the finalists (Owens, Midles, Bingisser, and Rolfe) are all graduates of high school is Western Washington. A list of all the qualifiers and a link to the full results can be found below.
Men's Hammer Throw
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Name Year School Prelims
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Preliminaries
1 Nick Owens SR North Carolina 70.22mq 230-04
2 Cory Martin JR Auburn 69.62mq 228-05
3 Jake Dunkleberger JR Auburn 66.85mq 219-04
4 Egor Agafonov JR Kansas 66.52mq 218-03
5 Adam Midles SR Southern California 65.95mq 216-04
6 Martin Bingisser SR Washington 65.63mq 215-04
7 Adam Hamilton SR Iowa 64.46mq 211-06
8 Eugene Bradley SR Santa Barbara 64.30mq 210-11
9 Andy Nicholas SR Kent State 64.19mq 210-07
10 Nate Rolfe SO Georgia 63.40mq 208-00
11 Terrance Myers SR East Carolina 63.34mq 207-10
12 Simon Wardhaugh SO Boise State 62.95mq 206-06
Women's Hammer Throw
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Name Year School Prelims
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1 Jenny Dahlgren SR Georgia 67.27mq 220-08
2 Brittany Riley JR Southern Illinois 65.73mq 215-08
3 Eva Orban SO Southern California 63.59mq 208-07
4 Sarah Stevens SO Arizona State 62.61mq 205-05
5 Amy Haapanen SR Santa Barbara 62.23mq 204-02
6 Britney Henry SR Oregon 62.21mq 204-01
7 Carrie Johnson SR California 62.11mq 203-09
8 Veronica Jatsek JR Ohio State 60.58mq 198-09
9 Julia Rozenfeld SR Southern California 60.29mq 197-10
10 Krishna Lee SO Missouri 59.55mq 195-04
11 Shanna Dickenson JR Tennessee 58.18mq 190-10
12 Kimery Hern SO Georgia Tech 57.88mq 189-11
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19:55, 10 June 2007
.. Posted by Anonymous
The hammer throw did start off slow for a championship competition. The overall competition was great and showed that you have to show up and throw and that your ranking alone is almost meaningless. "Remember people, the marks used for ranking are best throws." People need to pay atention to the first series of throws. Most good collegiate throwers this year do not release their best throws until finals. That trend led to them being beaten in the first round. The best throwers threw in the end.
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The NCAA Championships is one of those events where you have to be there to believe how easy it is to make the finals. Every athlete in the field has thrown far enough to make the finals. Its just a matter of doping what you did to get there. If athletes focus on the rankings coming in, they will be playing too many mind games with themselves. They have to realize they don't have to set records to make the final day. Enough people fail to perform that an athlete normally needs to be just above average.
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