INFELD, YOUNG TAKE NATIONAL 10,000M TITLES AT TOYOTA USATF CHAMPIONSHIPS
By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2025 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved – Used with permission.
EUGENE (31-Jul) — On the opening day of the 2025 Toyota USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon, Emily Infeld and Nico Young won the women’s and men’s 10,000m, respectively, each earning their first national track titles. Infeld, 35, who nearly ten years ago won the bronze medal in the same discipline at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, prevailed in a last lap, four-way battle over Elise Cranny, Taylor Roe and Weini Kelati. Young, 23, beat defending champion Grant Fisher in a two-up sprint in the homestretch, edging the double Olympic bronze medalist by just 25/100ths of a second.
INFELD BIDES HER TIME
Infeld came into tonight’s race feeling strong and confident. After spending 12 years as a Nike-sponsored, she picked up an unexpected sponsorship with Brooks in January, and felt a new motivation to train.
“I think especially after my last two years, a lot of people are probably like, she’s on the downhill,” Infeld admitted. She continued: “They (Brooks) believed in me and didn’t want me to move up to the roads.”
Tonight she patiently followed Cranny, a two-time Olympian and 2023 national 10,000m champion, who set the early pace. Cranny ran the first half of the race gently, splitting 5000m in 16:21.52. That left eight women still in contention: Cranny, Infeld, Taylor Roe, Weini Kelati, Jessica McClain, Karissa Schweizer, Keira D’Amato, and Amanda Vestri. Infeld was ready for whatever might happen.
“I knew I was in good shape, and I was just biding my time,” Infeld told reporters. She continued: “I was like, I’m just going to try to be there, I’m going to try to follow any moves.”
It wasn’t until the eighth kilometer that the race broke up. Cranny dropped a 71.4-second lap, and the race quickly came down to four: Cranny, Infeld, Roe and Kelati. Roe made the next move, taking the lead through 8 km, but the pace remained stable and the four women remained together. On the final lap, Cranny surged on the backstretch, dropping Roe and Kelati, but Infeld was able to hang on. The two women rounded the final bend together and Infeld pulled away down the homestretch on the strength of a 65.6-second final lap. Cranny came in second and Roe beat Kelati in the final sprint to take third.
“I can’t believe it!” Infeld…
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