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That's what happened to Harvard senior Meredith Rainey, who finished third Friday night in the 800-meter race at the NCAA track and field championships in Durham, N.C. Rainey's time of 2:00.48 was over three seconds faster than her time last June--when she was the NCAA champion in the event--but was over one second-and-a-half behind Wisconsin phenom Suzy Favor. Tennessee's Jasmine Jones nipped Rainey for second place in a time...
Harvard's Suzanne Jones also just missed out being crowned an NCAA champion, when she finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run Thursday night. Jones kept pace with the race leader and led from the 8-K to 9-K mark, but was passed by a group of three runners in the final 1000 meters...
Favor, the favored runner in the 800-meter run, has beaten Rainey all four times that they have met, including last summer's U.S. Olympic Festival. Favor jumped out into the lead in the first 150 meters. with Rainey on her shoulder. The two ran together until the 600-meter mark, where Rainey started making her move...
...race, Nebraska's Sammie Gadowski jumped out to a huge lead by the 1700-meter mark. Jones was the only runner who ran out ahead of the pack to challenge Gadowski, running about nine laps alone between the leader and the rest of the pack...
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