Junior Women
Neely Spence (6:18) is 34th place after the first lap, 4 seconds behind the leader. Emily Pritt (6:21) is the second American running in 47th place.
Spence moves up 10 spots to 24th as they complete the second lap. Her time of 13:20 is 50 seconds behind Genzebe Dibaba who leads the field after two circuits with a time of 12:30. Alexandra Dunne (13:38) and Ashley Brasovan (13:38) make big moves lap two. Dunne moves up 28 spots to 32nd place while Brasovan jumps 22 positions to 34th place.
Spence and Brasovan have Team USA off to a good start on the day. Spence led Team USA by finishing 19th in 21:33, while Brasovan was 26th in 21:55 and Dunne was 34th in 22:15. The winner was Genzebe Dibaba in 20:14. Spence and Brasovan lead Team USA to a fifth place finish as Ethiopia wins the team competition.
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Junior Men
Chris Derrick (16th), German Fernandez (22nd), and Luke Puskedra (35th) are out with the leaders, completing the first lap in 5:15, 5:16, and 5:19 respectively. The leaders went through in 5:14.
Fernandez and Derrick are still in striking distance as they go through two laps in 11:12, 18th and 19th places, while Pukskedra goes through in 11:16 and moves up to 26th-place. The lead pack finished two laps in 11:09.
Fernandez moves up to 13th, finishing 3 laps in 17:14, 19 seconds behind the lead group of six. Derrick is in 19th-place (17:19) while Puskedra is running strong in 27th along with the Austrailian star, Ryan Gregson.
Fernandez finishes 11th in 24:13. Derrick moves up to 15th (24:20) and Puskedra finishes 30th in 24:53. The winner was Ayele Abshero (Ethiopia) in 23:26.
Fernandez and Derrick lead Team USA to a fifth place finish as Kenya wins the team competition.
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Senior Women
Kathy Newberry (5:59), Julie Culley (6:00), and Rebecca Donaghue (6:02) lead the US women in 23rd, 25th, and 32nd places respectively through lap one. The leaders complete the first lap in 5:52.
After two laps, a pack of five, which includes 3 Kenyans, an Ethiopian, and a New Zealander, lead the way in 12:36. Culley (12:56), Newberry (12:59), and Donaghue (12:59) are still together in 28th, 29th, and 32nd respectively.
Two Ethiopians and a Kenyan lead through 3 laps in 18:58. Culley moves in 23rd-place completing three laps in 19:58. As Dongahue (20:08) and Newberry (20:10) are still together in 32nd and 33rd.
Kenyan Florence Jebet Kiplagat wins in 26:13. Culley finishes 21st in 28:08 to lead Team USA. Delilah DiCrescenzo (28:34) finishes in 33rd, Donaghue (28:37) in 36th, and Newberry (28:50) in 40th to complete the scoring for Team USA.
Team USA finishes in fifth place as Kenya wins the team competition.
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Senior Men
Max King, Brett Gotcher, Robert Curtis, and Ed Moran lead the US in 33rd, 38th, 48th, and 64th places respectively in a tight pack where 6 seconds separate the first seventy places.
A pack of seven leads through 2 laps in 11:15 while Curtis (45th), King (46th), Moran (51st), and Gotcher(53rd) lead the American charge as they sit 7- and 9-seconds behind the leaders.
Curtis (17:25) moves up to 37th place after 3 laps while Moran (17:31) and King (17:33) are in 44th and 45th. The top 6, consisting of 3 Kenyans, 2 Eriteans, and an Ethiopian, completed 3 circuits in 16:58.
The lead pack has grown to 10 as they complete 4 laps in 22:43. Curtis (23:32) moves up one spot to 36th. King (23:43), Ryan Vail (23:48), and Moran (23:52) round out the top 4 Americans in 44th, 47th, and 54th respectively.
After 5 laps, the lead pack of 12 goes through in 28:38. Curtis (29:52)leads the American charge in 39th with Vail (29:54) and King (29:54) in 44th and 45th. Moran (30:15) is in 57th.
Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam (Ethiopia) wins in 35:02. Vail (36:54) makes a big charge on the last lap to be the top American in 33rd. Curtis runs 37:00 to finish in 37th, while King (37:05) and Edwardo Torress (37:38) round out the scoring for the US in 40th and 58th respectively.
Kenya wins their third team title of the day as the US finishes in 8th place.
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