Steeple Chics in the News: Links to external news sources covering women's steeplechasing.
Professional Steeplechase runner Shayla Houlihan Interview (01/18/12) Shayla Houlihan is a professional runner for Brooks, specializing in the Steeplechase. She placed 6th in the 2010 Outdoor USATF Championships in the steeplechase, 6th in the indoor 3k, and is looking to qualify for the London Olympics later this year. As she says on her twitter account, she is “Enjoying life one day at a time”. She was really nice to allow me to interview her and learn more about someone who jumps over barriers and runs through water for a living....more
Inzikuru plotting another comeback to world stage (11/17/11) Former world champion Dorcus Inzikuru is plotting another return to the big stage after enduring a torrid time in the just-concluded track season. “I am returning stronger than you have seen me in recent years,” Inzikuru said in an interview with Daily Monitor yesterday....more
Sara Hall Wins Pan Ams Steeplechase (10/29/11) With a Pan American Games gold medal around her neck, it seems American distance runner Sara Hall has made the right decision to switch to the steeplechase.
Only a year after starting to focus on the 3,000-meter race instead of the 1,500 and 5,000, Hall took the won in 10 minutes, 3.16 seconds.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/10/29/sports/s001621D17.DTL#ixzz1cCzsIebT...more
2009 World Champ Dominguez gave birth in May, was cleared of doping charges in July and now will return to competition. (10/20/11) The 35-year-old Dominguez, probably the country's best known athlete, gave birth to a son, Javier, in May, and two months later was cleared of two of three charges in the Operation Greyhound doping probe which broke in December last year.
"If I don't pick up an injury I'll arrive in condition for the Olympic Games," Dominguez told a news conference on Thursday ahead of a 10-km race in Madrid on Oct. 30....more
Switch to Steeplechase allowed Zaripova to become a Star (09/01/11) Russia has a proud middle distance tradition for women, especially in the 800 metres, and newly crowned World Steeplechase champion Yulia Zaripova had hoped to join it.
As a junior and running under her maiden name Yuliya Zarudneva, Zaripova put her efforts into competing in the 800m. In 2005, at the age of 19, she managed to get her personal best time down to a credible 2:05.44. While that was good enough to take third in the Russian Junior Championships, Zaripova sensed that she was never going to achieve greatness in the two-lap race. Discouraged, she essentially left the sport, and didn't compete for the next two years....more
Stephanie Garcia named to World Team, Delilah out with Stress Fracture (08/17/11) It was announced yesterday that Stephanie Garcia of the University of Virginia was named to the 2011 World Championship team and will represent the US in Daegu later this month. Garcia will be taking the place of Delilah DiCrescenzo who pulled out of the competition with what has been speculated to be a stress fracture....more
Alex Leptich wins steeplechase at Pan American Junior Championships (07/25/11) Saline High School graduate and University of Michigan sophomore-to-be Alex Leptich won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Pan American Junior Championships this weekend.
Leptich won the same event at the USA Junior Outdoor Championships a month ago.In both events, Leptich held off Grace Heymsfield of Arkanasas....more
Maddie Meyers sets, then breaks, national high-school record in 2,000-meter steeplechase (07/21/11) Maddie Meyers set a national high-school record (6 minutes, 32.02 seconds) at the World Youth Track & Field Trials in Myrtle Beach, S.C., to qualify for the World Youth Championships in Lille, France.
She didn't stop there. She went to France and broke her own record (6:29.20) on July 10, finishing sixth....more
Marta Dominguez to compete after doping clearance (07/16/11) World steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez says she will return to competition after being cleared of doping charges by a Spanish court earlier this week.
Dominguez was accused of providing a fellow athlete with a banned performance-enhancing substance.
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