Sharp, Login win USA 40 km Race Walk titles
By Tom Surber, USATF
Posted Tuesday, 16 September, 2008
Ray Sharp and Solomiya Login won the respective men's and women's national titles Sunday at the 70th annual USA Track & Field 40 Kilometer Race Walk Championships in Ocean Township, N.J.
Sharp (Atlantics Mines, Mich.) won his third consecutive U.S. 40 km men's title on a steamy 90-degree, high humidity day by covering the two-kilometer loop course 20 times in 3 hours 58 minutes, 52 seconds. Top placers in the men's division were Connecticut's Theron Kessinger (2nd - 4:03:55), Michigan's Leon Jasionowski (3rd - 4:17:30) and Indiana's Max Walker (4th - 4:29:37).
Pegasus AC of Michigan walked off with the men's team crowns in both the open and Masters categories with a squad of Jasionowski, Rod Craig (sixth in 5:05:34), Marshall Sanders (10th in 5:21:26) and Don Knight (11th in 5:24:41). Craig was the men's 50-54 winner andJasionowski repeated as the M60-64 titlist.
Solomiya Login, a Philadelphia resident who finished seventh at the 2008 Olympic Trials 20 km, won the women's race in 4:15:52 for her first ever senior national title. Other top finishers were New York's Jennifer Marlborough (2nd-4:46:16), Colorado's Yvonne Allmaras (3rd-4:51:06) and Virginia's Rebecca Garson (4th- 5:00:25.)Taking fifth places, and winning Masters divisional age-group gold medals, were Shore AC teammates Tom Quattrocchi and Maria Paul. Quattrochi, of Sportswood, led the 55-59 men with a 4:49:06 clocking, and Paul, of Long Branch, was the first women's 40-44 finisher in 5:11:31.
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