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Mottram, Cragg Set for Reebok Boston Indoor Games
January 18, 2007 From press release.
BOSTON (Jan. 18) - It will be Craig v. Cragg at 3000 meters
in the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on Jan. 27 when Craig
Mottram (photo), the 2005 World Cross Country
bronze medalist,
faces off against Alistair Cragg, the 2005 European Indoor
Champion at 3000 meters, organizers announced today. Both athletes have a history here. Mottram, the first
non-African to win a medal at 5000 meters in a major
championship since 1987, is also a two-time World Cup
titleholder at 3000m, where in 2006 he upset Kenenisa
Bekele for the victory. Last year in Boston, the gregarious
Aussie won at 2 Miles over a deep field that included Cragg,
who finished third less than a second behind. Two years
ago at this meet, Cragg - Ireland's national record-holder -
won at 3000 meters when he, too, surprised Bekele. Joining them in the 3000-meter field will be American Jorge
Torres, the 2006 USA Champion at 10,000 meters.
In the women's 60 meters, Southeast Raleigh (NC) High
School senior Gabby Mayo will go up against a field that
includes 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medalist
Sheri-Ann Brooks and Angela Daigle-Bowen, the 2005 USA
Indoor 60-meter champion and 4x100-meter World
Championships gold medalist. Mayo, the USA Track & Field
Youth Athlete of the Year and Track & Field News Female
High School Athlete of the Year, ran the two best high school
100-meter times in the country last year (11.14 and 11.16)
and anchored the USA junior women's 4x100-meter relay to
a World Junior Record. The 12th-annual Reebok Boston Indoor Games, the first
stop in USA Track & Field's Visa
Championship Series, will be held at the Reggie Lewis
Track and Athletic Center at Roxbury
Community College, 1350 Tremont St., beginning at 5:30
p.m. on Jan. 27. Information and tickets,
at $60, $40 and $20, are now available on-line at
www.BostonIndoorGames.com or by calling
1-877-TIX-TRAC. The Visa Championship Series returns to
the Reggie Lewis Center Feb. 24-25
for the AT&T USA Indoor Track & Field Championships.
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