Sarah Mitton, De'Vion Wilson, Evan Dunfee Break Records At Swangard Stadium On Rare Hot Day In B.C.

By Doug Binder, DyeStat Editor

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BURNABY, B.C. – The uniform is a different color, but Nathan Green said not much else has changed in his transition from college to professional track. 

The former high school star from Idaho, who won two NCAA outdoor 1,500 meters titles for the University of Washington, traveld up to British Columbia with handful of his former teammates to compete in Tuesday's Jerome Classic at Swangard Staditum. 

And Green, representing Adidas, won his first race since the NCAA Championships last month in Eugene. He had to work for it, moving to the lead with 200 meters to go and then holding off Canadian Max Davies down the homestretch to break the tape in 3:34.97. Davies ran a two-second PB and was just .07 seconds from pulling off an upset.

"I've been in a lot of professional races and a lot of hard races from the Trials to various other meets. NCAAs feels like a pro meet, but to be a pro now is really cool because it signifies all the years and years of hard work and dreaming and sacrifices I've made to get here," Green said. 

The Jerome Classic, just a few hours up the road from Seattle, was a good place to start. Training group members Sam Prakel, Joe Waskom and Leo Daschbach were in the race and three more former Huskies paced: Justin O'Toole, Aaron Ahl and Sam Ellis. 

"Really it's a new jersey. Everything else is the same. I'm still in Seattle. I'm still with my coach (Andy Powell). I'm still with my teammates," Green said. 

Green will race later this weekend at the Stumptown Twilight in Portland and then get ready to compete at the USATF Outdoor Championships in Eugene. 

Even in an event as loaded as the men's 1,500 meters, Green believes he's got a chance to do some damage.

"Anybody can make it at any time," Green said. "Why not me? I've got as good of odds as anybody else. So we'll see. We'll give 'em hell."

Shot-putter Sarah Mitton soaked up the home crowd atmosphere on an almost impossibly warm and sunny day in Burnaby and broke the meet record with 20.14m (66-1).  

Danniel Thomas-Dodd of Jamaica kept some pressure on, with four throws over 19 meters and a best of 19.30m (63-4). 

Hurdler De'Vion Wilson won his seventh straight men's 110-meter hurdles race and broke a meet record from 1986 when he ran 13.40. Wilson was a U.S. Trials finalist last year. 

Marcellus Moore blazed a time of 10.07 seconds to win the men's 100 meters. 

Burnaby native Zion Corrales-Nelson returned to her home track to win the women's 100 meters in 11.86 seconds. By Tuesday night she was on a flight to Manila to compete in an event in The Philippines. Corrales-Nelson has represented The Philippines internationally since she was in high school.

Handal Roban of Penn State, who competes for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, followed the lead of pacer Navasky Anderson and then blew past to win the men's 800 meters in 1:45.78. 

Anderson, a Jamaican who attained the world standard on Saturday at the Sunset Tour, followed through with his trip north despite not really needing to. It was his first trip to Canada and he wanted to see the country. He told the other athletes in the race that he intended to stay in it to the finish, as a workout, but his sacrifice shielding the wind on the backstretch was a big help, Roban said. 

Anderson led until the final curve and still managed to place third in 1:46.82.

Canadian distance standout Regan Yee sought a fast 3,000 meters and stuck with pacer Lucia Stafford through 2 kilometers before going alone over the final 1,000 and finishing in 8:47.90. That was good for No. 12 on the all-time Canadian list. 

Thomas Fafard won the men's 3,000 meters in 7:55.33, followed by Ahl in 7:58.41. 

Evan Dunfee broke his own 3,000-meter racewalk as the temperatures were peaking in the upper 80s, with 11:02.07. 

Jacqueline Madogo won the women's 200 meters in 23.23 seconds. Caitlyn Bobb won the women's 400 in 52.29.

Angelina Ellis of Under Armour staked out a lead in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase and won it in 9:30.53. West Virginia's Sarah Tait was second in 9:31.06.

Amanda Marie Grefstad Froeynes of Norway patiently stuck to the rail and then found a seam on the inside of lane 1 to make a winning pass in the women's 800 meters, in 2:03.50. 

Shemaiah James of Australia won the men's triple jump with 16.31m (53-6.25). 

Elena Bruckner won the women's discus with 61.73m (202-6). 

Jillian Weir won the women's hammer competition with 71.83m (235-8), her best mark in three years. 

Denzel Comenentia of The Netherlands won the men's hammer for the second time in three days, with 76.27m (250-2).