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Fiona O'Keefe, making her marathon debut, won the US Olympic Marathon Trials women's title on Saturday to qualify for the Paris Olympics while Conner Mantz took the men's crown.
Conner Mantz and Clayton Young are the top men’s qualifiers the U.S. Olympic marathon trials—despite rarely running while on LDS missions.
Monti raves how 13 women have the 2:26:50 Olympic standard and is troubled that only 2 men have the 2:08:10 standard. Well, it should be noted that 43 men have run within 11.2% of the men's WR (2:14:15) which is how far 2:26:50 is off the women's WR.
Reigning Olympic marathon bronze medalist Molly Seidel won't run this weekend at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials because of a knee injury. Seidel revealed Thursday on Instagram that she hurt her knee about a month ago and an MRI showed she had a fractured patella and partially torn patellar tendon. The top three finishers in the men's and women's races earn spots at this year's Paris Games if they've met the time qualification criteria.
On paper, men like CJ Albertson and Futsum Zienasellassie aren't favored to make it to Paris, but one of them could do it with a breakout race in Orlando.