Jones, Cockrell, Muhammad In 400m H & Ali In 100m H Advance To Finals At 2024 U.S. Olympic T&F Team Trials

Track & Field | June 29, 2024

Jasmine Jones, Anna Cockrell and Dalilah Muhammad advanced to the women’s 400m hurdles final and Nia Ali to the women’s 100m hurdles final during the penultimate day of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. today (June 29). 

• Senior Jamine Jones led a trio of Trojans advancing to the women’s 400m hurdles final on Sunday at 5:29 p.m.  All three runners finished in the top two of their heat to automatically advance.  Jones had a time of 53.66 to take second in her heat, behind Anna Cockrell (USC, 2021) who won the heat with a personal-best time of 52.95.  Dalilah Muhammad (USC, 2012) placed second in her heat with a season-bet time of 54.16 to advance.  Among qualifying times, Cockrell was second, Jones fourth and Muhammad sixth.
• Nia Ali (USC, 2011) placed third in the first semifinal of the women’s 100m hurdles with a time of 12.55 (+0.8) and would have to wait it out, as the top two plus next three best times would advance to Sunday’s final at 5:00 p.m.  Her time turned out to be tops among the nonautomatic qualifiers and she advanced with the seventh-fastest time.  Junior Jalaysiya Smith had a time of 13.05 (+1.0) to place seventh in her semifinal and 15^th overall.
• Madisen Richards (USC, 2021) had a best jump today of 21-7.50/6.59m (+0.3) to place seventh in the women’s long jump final.

Current and graduated Trojans expected to be in action on tomorrow are Nia Ali (W – 100m H final), Rai Benjamin (M – 400m H final), Anna Cockrell (W – 400m H final), Jasmine Jones (W – 400m H final), Dalilah Muhammad (W – 400m H final), Earnest Sears III (M – HJ final).