{"id":376,"date":"2009-06-29T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T08:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=376"},"modified":"2009-07-04T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T00:12:08","slug":"2009-usa-outdoor-track-and-field-championships-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships &#8211; Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/events\/2009\/USAOutdoorTFChampionships\/\">2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships<\/a> featured a full schedule of compelling finals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/athletes\/bios\/Merritt_LaShawn.asp\">LaShawn Merritt<\/a> claimed the national title at 400 meters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/news\/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2009_06_27_20_11_15\">and remained undefeated in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2009_USA_Outdoor_Sat\">*** Click here to view photos from the 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships &#8211; Day 3 (Saturday) ***<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2009_USA_Outdoor_Sat\/20090627_180604_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"LaShawn Merritt claimed the national title at 400 meters and remained undefeated in 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2004 Olympian and 2005 World Outdoor silver medalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/athletes\/bios\/Demus_Lashinda.asp\">Lashinda Demus<\/a> won the 400 meter hurdles in 53.78, the fastest in the world this year and a new Hayward Field record.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2009_USA_Outdoor_Sat\/20090627_171923_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"2004 Olympian and 2005 World Outdoor silver medalist Lashinda Demus won the 400 meter hurdles in 53.78, the fastest in the world this year and a new Hayward Field record\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Arizona State University Sun Devils <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/athletes\/bios\/Phillips_Dwight.asp\">Dwight Phillips<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thesundevils.cstv.com\/sports\/c-track\/mtt\/alcorn_kyle00.html\">Kyle Alcorn<\/a> earned spots on Team USA for the 2009 World Championships by <a href=\"http:\/\/thesundevils.cstv.com\/sports\/c-track\/recaps\/062809aaa.html\">placing on the podium in their respective events<\/a>. Phillips, the 2004 Olympic champion in the long jump, claimed his fourth outdoor national title. Alcorn, the 2008 NCAA steeplechase champion, earned his first berth to the world championships, after placing 3rd in the 3,000 meter steeplechase final. Former Sun Devils <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flotrack.org\/blogs\/blogger\/ryan_warrenburg\">Ryan Warrenburg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thesundevils.cstv.com\/sports\/c-track\/mtt\/aguayo_aaron00.html\">Aaron Aguayo<\/a> also competed in Saturday&#8217;s steeplechase final.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2009_USA_Outdoor_Sat\/20090627_174938d_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"2008 NCAA steeplechase champion Kyle Alcorn placed third in Saturday's 3,000 meter steeplechase final\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2009_USA_Outdoor_Sat\/20090627_174947b_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Former Sun Devils Aaron Aguayo and Ryan Warrenburg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2008 Olympic Trials champion and Olympic Games finalist <a href=\"http:\/\/shannonrowbury.com\/\">Shannon Rowbury<\/a> took the lead in the final 100 meters to claim her second 1,500 meter title at Hayward Field.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2009_USA_Outdoor_Sat\/20090627_181642c_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Rowbury\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 of the 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships featured a full schedule of compelling finals. LaShawn Merritt claimed the national title at 400 meters and remained undefeated in 2009. *** Click here to view photos from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,97,33,96,99,44],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-aaron-aguayo","tag-kyle-alcorn","tag-lashawn-merritt","tag-lashinda-demus","tag-ryan-warrenburg","tag-shannon-rowbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}