Having topped the collegiate challengers in the NCAA 3000M women’s steeplechase and qualifying through the U.S. National Track & Field Championships in July, Allie Ostrander is scheduled to run in her first world championships.
Allie is scheduled to compete at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar with the 3000M women’s steeplechase scheduled for Friday, September 27th at Khalifa Stadium in the women’s semi-final set on the race schedule for 7:55 a.m. Alaska Time ( Qatar is 11 hours ahead of Alaska time). Coverage of the world championships will be available (limited) on NBC Sports Gold and the Olympic Channel.
The women’s steeplchase will feature three heats in the semi-final with Allie placed in the second heat. The top three runners in each heat (regardless of time) advance to the finals on Monday, September 30. The fastest six, non-automatic qualifiers, also advance to a field of 15 for the finals.
Other United States qualifiers include: 2019 national champion Emma Coburn and runner-up Courtney Frerichs, and Collen Quigley (8th in 2016 Brazil Olympics).
Photo courtesy of Allie Ostrander instragram page
Previously publish story July 29, 2019…
Ostrander Finishes 4th At US Nationals; Qualifies To World Championships
Allie Ostrander competing in possibly the strongest field in the world for women’s steeplechase finished fourth overall in the Women’s 3000M Steeplechase at the US Track and Field Championships on Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa.
In her first professional race and on America’s largest stage, Ostrander ran with the lead pack through the majority of Sunday’s final, before eventual champion Emma Coburn and runner-up Courtney Frerichs made it a two-person sprint to the finish.
Coburn won her eighth US national championship in the 3000M steeplechase defeating Frerichs by one second. Frerichs entered with the fastest qualifying time in the field. Coburn and Frerichs made world news in 2017 when they finished gold and silver at the IAAF World Championships in London becoming the first Americans to medal and the first pair to sweep the event’s top two places.
Allie Ostrander, with her fourth place finish and qualifying time of 9 minutes, 38.52 seconds (the qualifying standard is 9:40), will join Team USA track and field at the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar beginning September 28th.
Top Four Finishers
Emma Coburn 9:25.63,
Courtney Frerichs 9:26.61
Collen Quigley 9:30.97
Allie Ostrander 9:38.52.
