Sunday, February 21, 2016

Going For It

It was a very nice race by Brannon Kidder at the Armory in NYC yesterday in the Mel Sheppard 800M at the Millrose GamesDuane Solomon seemed to have the race in hand with 200M to go and seemed not to expect a rush, especially from a college student.  Brannon just missed getting position on Duane at the beginning of the last turn and Duane held him off in a fine time of 1:47.52 to 1:47.59.

Brannon (and Duane) looked relaxed the whole way.






Mel Sheppard.

PlaceAthleteTime



1Duane Solomon
Saucony
1:47.52



2Brannon Kidder
Penn State
1:47.59



3Alex Amankwah
Ghana
1:48.94



4Sean Obinwa
Nigeria
1:49.43



5Noah Kauppila
Princeton University
1:49.67

Addendum: Nittany Lion Millrose Additions

 Millrose Record Book:
4 × 800 metres relay 7:21.37 Penn State
Brannon Kidder
Casimir Loxsom
Za'Von Watkins
Ricky West
 United States 16 February 2013 [16]
Millrose Hall of Fame: 


Athlete Country Event Career notes Millrose highlights Inducted
Horace Ashenfelter  United States 2 Miles Olympic gold medalist, Steeplechase (1956) 5-time winner 2001