Schmaltz and Januszewski to semis

[tony]

Not sure what the deal is but Schmaltz, Januszewski, and Roesler all got put in the same heat (there were four heats) and all three made it to the semis. With 200 to go, Roesler was in 2nd and Schmaltz and Januszewski were in 4th and 5th but then they finished strong. Schmaltz 2nd, Januszewski 3rd, and Roesler 4th. Top 3 automatically go on to the next round so Roesler made it by posting the 8th fastest overall time. Schmaltz's time was 3rd fastest and Januszewski's was 6th fastest (their heat winner posted the fastest time so their heat was pretty fast.)

http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USA...ults/8-1-4.asp

[BadlandsBison]

Keep it up ladies++++++++

[IzzyFlexion]

Christine advances to the finals with the 9th fastest time. The girl with the 8th fastest time was in heat 1 and finished 5th in the heat. Top 4 in each of the 2 heats advance. So a bit of a break for Schmaltz who finished 4th in heat 1 coming across the line at 2:02.92.

Laura Januszewski finished 7th in heat 1 at 2:04.88
Laura Roesler finished 8th in heat 1 at 2:05.56.

The video link will probably be up sometime tomorrow. I'll be intrested to see what caused the inflated times for the 2 Lauras.

Alysia Montano of Team Nike had the top qualifying time at 2:01.37

[BisoninNWMN]

Didn't the 2 Laura's have personal bests that were 2-3 seconds better than what they ran yesterday?

I thought Laura Januszewski might have been a qualifier with a year of training under her belt.

[IzzyFlexion]

Here are the videos of the 2 semi-final heats:

http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USA...hips/video.asp

http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USA...hips/video.asp

Laura Januszewski got off to a terrible start not making up any of the stagger on Moore in lane 3 (Laura was in 2). In fact despite being inside of her on the turn actually lost quite a lot of ground.
Also, the gal in lane 1 made up her stagger on Laura within the first 30 meters.
So, by the time they got to the cut in point Januszeski was dreadfully trapped in the back of the entire pack and never made much of an attempt to work toward the front.

At 300 meters in, Roesler appeared to have an opportunity to stay tight since the 2 leaders were not crowding her path on the inside of lane 1, but she didn't make any sort of move whatsoever.

[IzzyFlexion]

Another impressive tidbit regarding Christine Scmaltz:

She is the ONLY collegiate in the Women's Senior 800 meter finals.

[IzzyFlexion]

Whitney Carlson is up in just over an hour from now as she begins the Women's Heptathalon.

First event is the 100 meter hurdles.

You can click on the "CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE" button from this page:
http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USA...Championships/

[IzzyFlexion]

Christine Schmaltz is up in about 18 minutes.
Women's 800 Meter Final.
Right after Whitney's last event in the Heptathalon. (also the 800 meter)

[westnodak93bison]

Congrats to Christine. 8th @ 2:01.17
http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USA...esults/8-3.asp

[Castor Troy]

Congrats to Christine. 8th @ 2:01.17
http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USA...esults/8-3.asp

Ryun said he was in shock since 2:01.17 is the B standard for the Olympics.