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2023 Camel City Elite Pro and College Fields Announced

Pros to battle for over $80k in prize money and bonuses

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – January 31, 2023 – Now entering its 11^th year of existence, Camel City Elite continues to offer a blend of some of the fastest professional and collegiate distance runners in the country.  This year’s races are all wide open with no clearcut favorites in any event.  This could make for some of the most exciting Camel City Elite Races to date.

Camel City Elite will be held at JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem on Saturday, February 4 at 2 pm EST.  It will also be live streamed via RunnerSpace as part of their Plus subscription package. 

Camel City Elite will once again feature some of the best prize money in the country, with $6000 for first place, $4000 for second, $2000 for third, $1000 for fourth place and on down to 8^th place.  Additionally, there are $1000 time bonuses to the winner in each event as well as $1000 flat track world record bonuses.

Professionally, athletes representing Adidas, On and Under Armour will be featured, while the colleges represented will include BYU, Charlotte, Duke, Furman, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.

The women’s 3000m will be the first race of the day and will feature Susan Ejore (Under Armour Baltimore Distance), Eilish Flanagan (Finn Valley AC) and Hannah Steelman (On).  They will try to hold off NCAA cross country third-place finisher Kelsey Chmiel of NC State, who holds the college facility record at JDL.  But don’t sleep on Riley Chamberlain of BYU who just ran 4:33 for the mile last week.  Additionally, ACC foes Margot Appleton of Virginia and Brynn Brown of North Carolina should be vying for an NCAA qualifying time.

The men’s 3000m will feature some fast company.  Unattached athletes Athanas Kioko and Alex Ostberg can boast 5k PRs of 13:13 and 13:18, respectively.  But Willy Fink (Under Armour Baltimore Distance) comes in with plenty of JDL flat track experience, having won the Camel City mile twice and competing in the 3000m as a collegian.  They will battle Virginia Tech’s Antonio Lopez Segura, who set the college facility record last year.  Yasin Sado of Virginia, Luke Tewalt of Wake Forest and Nick Scudder of Charlotte should also be in the mix.  And NC State will have a quartet of athletes in the race, led by 13:23 5k runner Ian Shanklin, who ran at JDL in high school while attending nearby…