Thought it’s worthwhile to start a thread of current and former Coogs heading to the Paris Olympics:
Great Britain - Louie Hinchliffe 100m (& 100m relay?)
South Africa - Shaun Maswanganyi 100m, 200 m, 4x100m
Mexico - Cecilia Tamayo Garza 200m
Barbados - Tristan Evelyn - 100m
Also…
Antrea Mita - 2024 Greek National Champion HJ, going to World U20 Championships
Michaela Mouton - Team USA 400m World U20 Championships
Thanks for posting! Can’t wait. Purchased the Peacock $20/year special just for this. And maybe for the TDF as well.
Updated to add Tristan Evelyn.
Evelyn and Tamayo-Garza were respectable but did not advance out of prelims in the 100m. 45th and 55th best times I believe. Guess what, they’re both Olympians! Tamayo-Garza still has the 200m to go.
Shaun and Louie advance to the 100m semis.
EDIT: Shaun and Louie will be in Semifinal #1 tomorrow afternoon, with Noah Lyles again.
Grant Fisher (just the second US 10k medalist in history) has a UH connection. His mother is former Coog’s distance runner Sonia Silva - ’84-‘87 and his dad ran distance under former Coog’s distance coach, Ken Lehman, out at Arizona St.
And what an incredible race that was!
Agree, last night’s 10k was an incredible race. Pretty certain it’s the first time I’ve ever watched the 10k from start to finish. It was long but drama filled, especially with the Ethiopians working together to push the pace.
Great race by Grant Fisher, stuck with the leaders throughout.
10k was great.
In any other Olympics before today, Louie Hinchliffe’s 9.97 would put him in the finals for the 100m. He had a great showing in the 100m dash, I’ll be pulling for him in the relays.
Don’t forget, he set a PB of 10.17 back in May. Since then he won the Big 12, the won the NCAA Championship, won the British Championship, made the Olympic team, beat Noah Lyles, and then came within 0.04 seconds of making the Olympic finals.
Incredible stretch for him. I don’t think he’s hit his ceiling yet.
Hinchcliffe in 4x100 relay final tomorrow.
#GoCoogs!
So is Shaun Maswanganyi for S. Africa.
Yes.
Louie had the second fastest split of anyone in the 4x100 relays at 8.88, just behind SA’s Simbine at 8.86 sec.
S. Africa got silver. Was Shawn one of the four?
Yes
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