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Three-Time Champion and 2012 Olympian Morgan Uceny Highlights 2015 B.A.A. Invitational Mile on April 18Published by
Invitational Races Feature Start/Finish on Boylston Street at Boston Marathon® Finish Line and $14,500 (USD) Prize PursePress Release
BOSTON – The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) today announced an elite field of world class competitors for the 2015 B.A.A. Invitational Mile, to be held on Saturday, April 18, two days prior to the 2015 Boston Marathon®. Three-time B.A.A. Invitational Mile champion and 2012 Olympian Morgan Uceny (USA) will look to win her fourth title, while European Championships medalist Chris O’Hare (GBR) headlines the men’s field. The B.A.A. Invitational Mile will also include Middle School 1,000 meter races and Scholastic Mile races featuring youths from the eight cities and towns of the Boston Marathon course. 10:30 a.m. Girls’ Middle School 1,000 meters Uceny, 30, who was ranked first in the world at 1500 meters in 2011, will look to win the fourth B.A.A. Invitational Mile title of her career. Uceny lives and trains in Boston under B.A.A. High Performance coach Terrence Mahon, and broke the finish tape first on Boylston Street in 2010, 2012, and 2014. Uceny is coming off of a stellar indoor season which saw her set a personal best of 4:29.39 for the mile in New York City. Uceny won last year’s B.A.A. Invitational Mile in a time of 4:44.0; this year she’ll go for her fourth victory, with Anna Willard’s event record of 4:38.6 within reach. Fellow Americans Heather Kampf and Gabe Grunewald aim to claim their first B.A.A. Invitational Mile title, both having run the race before. In 2014 Kampf finished a close second to Uceny, while Grunewald was runner-up in 2013. Kampf is the reigning USA Road Mile National Champion. Great Britain’s O’Hare, a University of Tulsa graduate who trains in Boston and is also coached by Terrence Mahon, won a bronze medal at this year’s European Indoor Championships 1500m. He also owns a bronze medal from the 2014 European Outdoor Championships 1500m, and won the 2012 NCAA Indoor Mile national title. O’Hare looks to continue a strong British tradition at the B.A.A. Invitational Mile, as fellow countryman Andy Baddeley won a pair of titles in 2010 and 2011. Facing off against O’Hare in the men’s professional race will be Americans Duncan Phillips and Frezer Legesse, as well as Britain’s Chris Gowell. Representing the Boston Athletic Association are Steve Mangan and Dan Lowry. The men’s event record for the B.A.A. Invitational Mile is 4:03.3, set by New Zealand’s Nick Willis in 2013. B.A.A. Invitational Mile Elite Fields
i = indicates indoor track performance B.A.A. INVITATIONAL MILE PRIZE PURSE (equal for both men and women)
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