{"id":51,"date":"2006-06-24T00:35:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T07:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-10-16T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T22:03:34","slug":"2006-att-usa-track-and-field-outdoor-championships-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"2006 AT&#038;T USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships &#8212; Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.com\/news\/view.aspx?DUid=USATF_2006_06_23_19_18_28\">Marion Jones and Justin Gatlin grabbed the headlines, for their wins in the 100 meters.<\/a> The schedule for Day 3 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.com\/events\/2006\/USAOutdoorTFChampionships\/\">USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships<\/a> was lengthy, due to the scheduling of make-up races from Day 2. All three rounds of the 100 meters, which normally take place over two days, were compressed into one.<\/p>\n<p>Distance events dominated the evening schedule, where both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s 5,000 and 10,000 meter races were contested. Tucson resident Bernard Lagat, competing in his first USA championship after becoming an American citizen, sprinted away from a loaded field in the final straightaway to win the 5000 meters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/2006_USATF_Day3\">Images from the 2006 USATF Outdoor Championships &#8212; Friday (updated 7\/8\/06)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/2006_USATF_Day3\/20060623_175823_2_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Tucson resident Bernard Lagat wins the 5000 meters\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marion Jones and Justin Gatlin grabbed the headlines, for their wins in the 100 meters. The schedule for Day 3 of the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships was lengthy, due to the scheduling of make-up races from Day 2. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=51\">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":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}