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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS RELAYS
THURSDAY, APRIL 21. 2005
Today
♦ Distance Events
11 a.m. — Men's hammer throw
3:30 p.m. — Women's hammer throw
5 p.m. — Women's unseeded 800-meter run
5:15 p.m. — Men's unseeded 800-meter run
5:30 p.m. — Women's unseeded 1,500-meter run
5:50 p.m. — Men's unseeded 1,500-meter run
6:10 p.m. — Men's unseeded 3,000-meter steeple
6:20 p.m. — Men's 3,000-meter run (Finals)
6:30 p.m. — Men's masters mile
6:40 p.m. — Men's open SK
7:10 p.m. — Men's open SK
7:35 p.m. — Men's 5,000-meter run
7:55 p.m. — Men's 5,000-meter run
8:30 p.m. — Men's 10,000-meter run
9:10 p.m. — Men's 10,000-meter run
Friday
- **Field Events**
8 a.m. — Boys’ javelin
8 a.m. — Girls’ shot put
10 a.m. — Boys’ paultau
10 a.m. — Girls’ high jump
10 a.m. — Boys’ long jump
11 a.m. — Girls’ javelin
11:30 a.m. — Women’s shot put
Noo! — Women’s long jump
1:30 p.m. — Men’s pole vault
1:30 p.m. — Women’s high jump
2 p.m. — Women’s javelin
2 p.m. — Men’s shot put
4 p.m. — Men’s long jump
4 p.m. — Girls’ long jump
5 p.m. — Girls’ paultau
5 p.m. — Boys’ high jump
5 p.m. — Men’s javelin
6:30 p.m. — Boys’ shot put
Running Events
9:40 a.m. — Girls' four-mile relay (Finals)
8:40 a.m. — Boys' four-mile relay (Finals)
10 a.m. — Girls' shuttle hurdle relay (Finals)
10:10 a.m. — Women's shuttle hurdle relay (Finals)
10:20 a.m. — Boys' shuttle hurdle relay (Finals)
10:30 a.m. — Women's shuttle hurdle relay (Finals)
10:40 a.m. — Girls' 400-meter dash
10:55 a.m. — Boys' 400-meter dash
11:10 a.m. — Women's 4 x 200-meter relay (Finals)
11:20 a.m. — Women's 4 x 200-meter relay (Finals)
11:30 a.m. — Girls' 3,200-meter run (Finals)
11:50 a.m. — Women's 3,200-meter run (Finals)
12:10 p.m. — Girls' 100-meter dash
12:25 p.m. — Women's 100-meter dash
12:40 p.m. — Women's 100-meter dash
1 p.m. — Men's 100-meter dash
1 p.m. — Opening Ceremony and National Anthem
1:30 p.m. — Women's 400-meter hurdles
1:45 p.m. — Men's 400-meter hurdles
2 p.m. — Boys' 300-meter relay (Finals)
2:15 p.m. — Girls' 300-meter hurdles (Finals)
2:30 p.m. — Girls' distance medley relay (Finals)
2:45 p.m. — Women's distance medley relay (Finals)
3:15 p.m. — Women's distance medley relay (Finals)
3:30 p.m. — Men's distance medley relay (Finals)
3:45 p.m. — Women's 400-meter dash
4:05 p.m. — Men's 400-meter dash
4:25 p.m. — Girls' 4 x 100-meter relay
4:45 p.m. — Boys' 4 x 100-meter relay
5:05 p.m. — Women's 4 x 100-meter relay
5:25 p.m. — Men's 4 x 100-meter relay
5:45 p.m. — Girls' 800-meter run (Finals)
5:55 p.m. — Boys' 800-meter run (Finals)
6:10 p.m. — Men's steeplechase (Finals)
6:25 p.m. — Girls' 4 x 400-meter relay
6:50 p.m. — Boys' 4 x 400-meter relay
7:20 p.m. — Women's 4 x 400-meter relay
7:40 p.m. — Men's 4 x 400-meter relay
8:05 p.m. — Women's four-mile relay (Finals)
8:25 p.m. — Men's four-mile relay (Finals)
Field Events
Saturday
TRUB CUMM
a.m. — Boys' discus
10 a.m. — Men's high jump
10 a.m. — Boys' triple jump
10 a.m. — Women's pole vault
10:45 a.m. — Women's discus
11 a.m. — Men's triple jump
1:30 p.m. — Girls' discus
2 p.m. — Girls' triple jump
2:30 p.m. — Women's triple jump
4 p.m. — Men's discus
Running Events
9 a.m. — Boys' 110-meter hurdles
9 15 a.m. — Men's 110-meter hurdles
9 35 a.m. — Girls' 100-meter hurdles
9 50 a.m. — Women's 100-meter hurdles
10 10 a.m. — Girls' sprint medley relay (Finals)
10 30 a.m. — Boys' sprint medley relay (Finals)
10 50 a.m. — Women's sprint medley relay (Finals)
11 05 a.m. — Men's sprint medley relay (Finals)
11 25 a.m. — Master's class 4 x 100-meter relay
11 30 a.m. - Grade school 4 x 100-meter relay
11 35 a.m. - Girls' x 200-meter relay (Finals)
11 50 a.m. - Boys' x 200-meter relay (Finals)
12 10 a.m. - Girls' two-mile relay (Finals)
12 35 a.m. - Boys' two-mile relay (Finals)
12 55 a.m. - Women's two-mile relay (Finals)
1:10 p.m. - Men's two-mile relay (Finals)
1:35 p.m. - Men's masters 800-meter run
1:50 p.m. - Masters' 100-meter dash
1:51 p.m. - Girls' 1,600-meter run (Finals)
1:50 p.m. - Boys' 1,600-meter run (Finals)
1:54 p.m. - Girls' x 400-meter relay (Finals)
1:55 p.m. - Boys' x 400-meter relay (Finals)
1:65 p.m. - Women's x 400-meter relay (Finals)
1:80 p.m. - Men's x 400-meter relay (Finals)
Gold Zone
2 p.m. — Men's invitational pole vault
2 p.m. — Women's invitational high jump
2 p.m. — Women's invite 200-meter dash
2.05 p.m. — Women's invite 200-meter dash
2.10 p.m. — Girls' 100-meter hurdle (Finals)
2.15 p.m. — Women's 100-meter hurdles (Finals)
2.20 p.m. — Women's invite 100-meter hurdles
2.25 p.m. — Boys' 110-meter hurdles (Finals)
2.30 p.m. — Men's 110-meter hurdles (Finals)
2.35 p.m. — Men's invite 110-meter hurdles
2.40 p.m. — Women's steeplechase (Finals)
2.55 p.m. — Girls' 100-meter dash (Finals)
3 p.m. — Boys' 100-meter dash
3 p.m. — Men's invitational shot
3.05 p.m. — Women's 100-meter dash (Finals)
3.10 p.m. — Women's invite 100-meter dash
3.15 p.m. — Men's 100-meter dash (Finals)
3.20 p.m. — Men's invite 100-meter dash
3.25 p.m. — Women's 800-meter run (Finals)
3.30 p.m. — Men's 800-meter run (Finals)
3.30 p.m. — Men's invitational high jump
3.30 p.m. — Women's invitational pole vault
3.35 p.m. — Girls' 4 x 100-meter relay (Finals)
3.40 p.m. — Boys' 4 x 100-meter relay (Finals)
3.45 p.m. — Women's 4 x 100-meter relay (Finals)
3.50 p.m. — Men's 4 x 100-meter relay (Finals)
3.55 p.m. — Men's invitational mile
4 p.m. — Women's 400-meter hurdles (Finals)
4.05 p.m. — Men's 400-meter hurdles (Finals)
4.10 p.m. Women's invite 400-meter hurdles
4.15 p.m. - Girls' 400-meter dash (Finals)
4.20 p.m. - Women's 400-meter dash (Finals)
4.25 p.m. Women's invite 400-meter dash
4.30 p.m. - Boys' 400-meter dash (Finals)
4.35 p.m. - Men's 400-meter dash (Finals)
4.40 p.m. - Men's invite 400-meter run
4.45 p.m. - Women's 1,500-meter run (Finals)
4.50 p.m. - Women's 1,500-meter run (Finals)
4.55 p.m. - Women's invite 4 x 200-meter relay
5 p.m. - Men's invite 4 x 100-meter relay
Gold Zone highlights Relays
Three-hour event is new this year
BY PATRICK SHEHAN
pshehan@kansan.com
KANSAN SOFTWAREWRITER
There will be two kinds of people this weekend: people who are at the Gold Zone, and people who will lie about being there. At least that's what Kansas Relays meet director Tim Weaver thinks.
In a radio interview two years ago, Weaver was asked, "If a person has three or four hours to go to the Kansas Relays, what should they see?"
Weaver had no answer. He
concluded that two 12-hour days of track didn't appeal to a sports fan anymore. The problem was condensing the most important events into a shorter period of time.
"I'm not just talking about the Relays as a sporting event," Weaver said. "I'm talking about entertainment. Movies, plays and concerts all last around three hours."
Weaver's emotions were cemented when he visited the Weltklasse meet in Zurich, Switzerland.
"There were 25,000 going crazy like in an NFL game for three hours on a Friday night," Weaver said. "I just knew we had to incorporate something like this in the relays."
In one aspect, the Gold Zone is exclusive: Only the best collegiate and unattached athletes may compete. In other aspects, the Gold Zone will be an exhibition of Olympic talent. Weaver met with Athletics Director Lew Perkins earlier this year and set a goal of having 15 Olympians.
Thus, Weaver invented the Gold Zone, a three-hour event from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday.
At the moment, he has more than doubled that expectation. Seven gold medalists, 12 silver medalists and 22 other Olympians round out the field.
Kansas legends Pat Manson and Charlie Gruber will compete. Missouri graduate and their former rival, Derrick Peterson, will compete. And world-renowned celebrities such as Marion Jones, Maurice Greene and Stacy Dragila will compete.
Local newspapers have
reported that the Athletics Department has spent about $100,000 to accommodate all the athletes.
This year we just decided that in order to make money, you have to spend money," he said.
Josh Meyers, a chairman for the student relay committee, said that economically, this year was much different from others in the past.
The Gold Zone, though a new concept for the Relays, still won't take away from the decades of tradition.
The Gold Zone, as well as the rest of the Kansas Relays, is free to students with a KUID.
Olympians to star on Saturday
Seven gold medalist featured in signature competitions
INFORMATION GATHERED BY FRANK TANKARD FROM USA TRACK AND FIELD, ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA AND KANSAS ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Marion Jones
Sprints
Marion Jones won Olympic gold medals in 2000 in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 1,600-meter relay. She also won bronze medals in the long jump and 400-meters. She gave birth to her son, Tim Montgomery Jr., in the summer of 2003.
Marion had a rough time at the Mount SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., on Sunday where she finished last in the 400. Jones is looking to get back on track after a disappointing time in Athens as well.
Maurice Greene Sprints
Maurice Greene, a native of Kansas City, Kan., won the Olympic 100-meter dash and the 400-meter relay in 2000. He took home bronze last summer in Athens in one of the closest finishes of all time. Greene ran 9.87 seconds, while Justin Gatlin won the race in 9.85 seconds.
He set the world record with a dash 9.79 seconds in 1999, which was broken by .1 seconds by Tim Montgomery in 2002.
Nick Hysong Pole vault
Nick Hysong won Olympic gold in the pole vault in 2000, becoming the first United States athlete to win the event since Bob Seagren in 1968. He was the bronze medalist in the 2001 World Outdoor Championships and was the 1995 U.S. indoor champion.
He graduated from Arizona State University, where he won the NCAA Outdoor Championship in 1994. He also won the PAC-10 Championship in 1993 and 1994.
Stacy Dragila
Pole vault
Stacy Dragila won the first-ever women's Olympic pole vault competition in 2000. She competed in Athens in 2004 after winning the U.S. Olympic Trials, but didn't advance to the finals. She holds the American record in pole vault at 15 feet, 10 inches, which she set in 20
She has won eight U.S. outdoor championships, dating back to 1996.
Matt Hemingway
Savatheda Fynes Sprints
High jump
Championships, from 2002 to 2004. Hemingway, who stands at 6-foot-7, graduated from Arkansas in 1996.
Matt Hemingway won silver in the high jump in his first Olympics in 2004. Before the Olympics, his most notable achievements were winning the 2000 U.S. Indoor Championships and placing second in three straight U.S. Outdoor
Savatheda Fynes, who hails from the Bahamas, won Olympic gold as part of a 400-meter relay team in 2000. She was a silver medalist in 1996 in the same event. She went to college at Louisiana and Michigan State, where she graduated in 1996. She won three NCAA titles. As a 16-year-old in 1991 she placed third in the 100-meters in.
Allen Johnson
Hurdles
Sprints
Inger Miller
Inger Miller won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as part of the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team. She withdrew from the 2000 Olympics, in which she was a medal favorite, before competing in a single event because of a hamstring injury. She had
Allen Johnson has been one of the best hurdlers in the world for several years. He clipped a hurdle and fell in the preliminary round at the 2004 Athens Games. He won the 110-meter hurdles in the 1996 Olympics.
Miller, 32, won a World Outdoor Championships in the 200-meters in 1999.
qualified in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and the 400-meter relav.
Johnson, 34, is a four-time World Outdoor Championships winner, a six-time U.S. outdoor champion and a four-time U.S. indoor winner.
John Steffenson
An up-and-comer, John Steffenson, 22, was part of Australia's unlikely silver medal-winning 1,600-meter relay in the 2004 Olympics. It was the first time Australia had medaled in the event since the 1958 Olympics. He competed primarily as
Sprints
a long jumper when he started, and now also runs the 400-meter and 200-meter dashes.
Austra Skujyte
Hentathlon
Austra Skujyte, a 25-year-old Lithuanian, broke the world record for the women's decathlon on Friday at the Audrey Walton Combined Events meet in Columbia, Mo. The women's decathlon was added as an event
recently by the International Association of Athletic Federations. Skyuyte also won silver in the heptathlon at the Athens Olympics.
Heptathlon
Christian Cantwell
Christian Cantwell, a 2003 Missouri graduate, failed to qualify for his first Olympics in 2004 despite being the top-ranked shot-putter in the world by Track and Field News. He barely missed making the team, placing fourth at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Throws
He won the 2004 World
Indoor Championships. Prior to the Olympic Trials, he had won the shot put in 14 consecutive meets. Cantwell also competes in discuss and hammer throw.
Amy Acuff High jump
Amy Acuff competed in the high jump in the Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004. After failing to get past the qualifying round in her first two Olympics, she finished fourth in Athens. She won her fourth U.S. outdoor title in 2003.
Acuff achieved fame out
Accumbent athletic side of track and field last summer when she appeared on the cover of Playboy. In the fall she married fellow pole vaulter Tye Harvey, will also compete at the Kansas Relays.
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