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USATF News & Notes
Volume 3, Number 98 October 11, 2002
Dryer to defend USA 10K title at Tufts
Defending U.S. champion Elva Dryer will face a strong contingent of U.S.
women’s distance runners Monday at the 2002 USA 10K Championships at the
Tuft’s Health Plan 10K for Women in Boston.
Last year at the USA 10K Championship, hosted by the Senior Bowl 10K in
Mobile, Ala., Dryer won in 32:43 over Anne Marie Lauck (32:56). In addition
to facing Lauck on Monday, Dryer also will do battle with five U.S.
Olympians: Libbie Hickman, Marla Runyan, Amy Rudolph, Joan Nesbit Mabe and
Shayne Culpepper.
This year, Dryer, a Team USA California member, will face a difficult
challenge from De Reuck (who won at Tufts’s last year in 32:10), Hickman
(three-time USA 10K
champion at Tufts) and Runyan (the 2002 5K and 5000m U.S. champion).
Along with the USA Championship and the $17,950 U.S. prize purse, Tufts is
also the 2002 Women's USA Running Circuit finale. Like past finales, the
USARC Grand Prix prize money positions ($6000, $4000 and $2500) will be
decided except the overall title, which De Reuck has already clinched with
49 points.
Former world record holder Eastman dies
One of the greatest quarter-mile and half-mile runners of all time, Ben
Eastman, died last Sunday at his home in Hotchkiss, Colo. He was 91.
An aggressive runner during his career, “Blazin Ben” would quickly run to
the front of the pack and then dare his competitors to catch him. His prime
was between 1932 to 1934, where he set world records outdoors at 400 meters,
440 yards, 500 meters, 600 yards, 800 meters and 880 yards. Eastman won the
1932 Olympic silver medal at 400 meters, finishing second to fellow American
Bill Carr.
Eastman attended Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in
1933 and a master’s of business administration in 1935. A former part-time
track coach at the University of Santa Clara, he worked in San Francisco and
New York with companies that sold industrial supply equipment. Since 1959,
he owned and operated a fruit orchard in western Colorado. Eastman is
survived by three sons, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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