Cross Country and Jump Performances Earn Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

Track and field fans voiced their choices in this week's DyeStat's Performance of the Week poll, while DyeStat's editors made their own selection.

Readers’ Choice: Jonas Price

With 42.61 percent of the vote, Jonas Price won our Readers’ Choice vote, beating Sydney Thorvaldson with her second-place tally of 26.78 percent.

Price made changes to his life and training to prepare for his senior season at Eisenhower WA, including increasing his mileage and improving his diet. Those changes paid off in his season opener at the Ash Creek Cross Country Festival in Monmouth, Ore.

Taking over after the first mile, Price led the rest of the way, running 15:02 for the 5K course on the campus of Western Oregon University. The 11-team meet was small by some standards, but it attracted teams from up and down the west coast, adding some early season regional competition.

Price led four other boys under the meet record of 15:22, with Franklin OR junior Charlie Robertson finishing closest in 15:06.

Next up for Price and his Eisenhower teammates is a home league meet next week, followed by the Brooks Fort Steilacoom Invitational. The Ash Creek Cross Country Festival will mark Price's only out-of-state race until NXR Northwest in November.

Watch Price's post-race interview on DyeStat.com.

Editors’ Choice: Yulimar Rojas

There were two performances that stand out in particular from this past week. First is Brigid Kosgei's world best in the half marathon at the Great North Run. The Kenyan ran 1:04:28, 23 seconds faster than Joyciline Jepkosgei's world record. However, the Great North Run course is not record eligible. The distance between the start and finish points is too far and the net downhill exceeds the allowable limit. It is a great time and performance, but it is difficult to directly compare to the world record.

Yulimar Rojas, on the other hand, has no such issues surrounding her performance in the triple jump. Competing at a meet in Spain, the Venezuelan launched herself into second on the all-time list with a leap of 50-6.75 (15.41m).

That places Rojas 3.5 inches behind the world record of Ukraine's Inessa Kravits, who jumped 50-10.25 (15.50m) in 1995. That record was set two months before Rojas was born.

Rojas has been on a roll this season. She has jumped over 15 meters in four meets this season, becoming the fourth female athlete in history to surpass 15 meters at least four times in a year, including the first since Cuba's Yargeris Savigne in 2008.

Rojas did so twice in Spain, jumping 49-3.75 (15.03m) in the third round after two fouls to open the competition. Her personal-best jump came on her sixth and final attempt.