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■ 1995 PREFONTAINE CLASSIC Pre remembered in record-breakinq memorial Trevor Kearney CmQcn Catty I'mar&a Highlighted by a handful of Olympians, n few ox Oregon stars and several record-breaking perfor mances, Steve Prefontaine vs as remembered at Sun day's Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in front of a record crowd of 13.655 Honoring the 20th anniversary of Pre s death. Sun day s meet featured the 2 reiki ran in Prefontaine » honor A < eremony just before the ra< >■ known as Pre's race — included the introduction of several of Pro's former teammates and Pre's father delivering the starter gun to the official "Especially at the line — when they did that that even put another boost of adrenalin in the body ." said Todd Williams, runner-up in the race; with a time of 8-minutes, 14 58 seconds "That kind of brought it up another notch." before the rm e, Williams and Hob Kennedy, the winner of the race with a time of 8 14.51, had pre dicted a new American record, hut fell just under two seconds short of the mark Kennedy's mark, howev er, was good for a new meet and field record "I was feeling the emotion warming up and on the line," Kennedy said, "but as soon as the gun went off it was just another race, which I'm sure is the way Pro' would have felt, loo I really wanted to set the Anna icon record, but it just didn't happen " "I just wish we could have given (Pre) that Ameri can record," Williams said It was meaningful any way. but I think the icing on the i ake would have Iveeti if we had broken the record." The meet saw several records shattered, as Maria Malola of Mozambique set the meet and Hayward Field records in the 1000-meter run with a time of 2:32.33, and Suzv Hamilton set the American record in the same race with a second-place time of 2 i t.');) Gail Davers of Nike International set the meet reconi in the 100-hurdles by racing ton 12.B4 sis ond finish, and Derek Mills and Nike International s Michael Johnson set the meet records in the 400 meter dash and 200-meter dash, respectively Mills ran the 400 in 44 I t seconds, breaking Maxie Parks' 107(1 record, and Johnson beat out Olympian <'.«»rI Lewis in the final stretch to break Kirk Baptiste's 1087 record "Basically, 1 thought 1 ran the first 50 Imotersl and the last 100 Imotersl very well and made a mistake in Turn to PREFONTAINE. Page 24A * ft* : iHi I .MS»<0 In the 2 mile race, which was In honor of Steve Prefontalne, Bob Kennedy (right) broke the meet and field records by running the race In 0:14 53 Kennedy barely beat Todd Williams, who ran an 8:14 50 e.m. m or mmuF warn *m MAM* Ml TffU I . uKi Dan O'Brien lied for second In the high jump en route to a mini-decathlon victory .JWI.. .>'.i.i Maria Mutola (front) and Sury Hamil ton provided one of the ! most exclt Ing races Sunday, as Mutola set new meet j and Hay ward Field records with a time of 2:32 33 and Hamilton set a new Amer ican record i with a clock ing of 2:33.93 CALL 346-4343 BEFORE 1 p.m. TODA Y TO PUT US TO WORK FOR YOU TOMORROW! Ofei GREEK ANNOUNCEMENTS toT HayVay C Emily M Sara h Sara t Brandy B Coral f Brffl t Oabtn* B Ktrstan K Ally J Mtfhiya S Congrats' WeH rmss you ** PQ‘S SONALS DIO YOU ATTEND THE HAR VEST CRUSADE? Do you believe m Je*u* Chri*t? 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