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NCAA Championship
Hamish Thorpe Earns Top-Ten Finish At NCAA's
3/11/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field
March 11, 2001
FAYETTVILLE, Ark. - Providence College junior, Hamish Thorpe (Auckland, New Zealand) earned a tenth-place finish in the 3,000 meter run at the 2001 Division I Men's NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. The event was held in Fayettville, Arkansas at the Randal Tyson Track Center, on the campus of the University of Arkansas.
Thorpe, competing in his first NCAA collegiate indoor track championship, finished the event with a time of 8:13.16. Alabama runner, David Kimani won the 3,000 meter title in a time of 8:03.29.
The Friars finished in a five-way tie for 38th place as a team with six points. Fifty-five teams competed in the championships.
3,000 meter individual results
1 David Kimani (Alabama) 8:03.29 2 Adrian Blincoe (Villanova) 8:04.08 3 Jonathon Riley (Stanford) 8:06.04 4 Chris Miltenberg (Georgetown) 8:07.94 5 Shadrack Kimeli (Kansas State) 8:07.98 6 Ben Cooke (James Madison) 8:08.10 7 Daniel Lincoln (Arkansas) 8:09.41 8 Junior Vasquez (Oklahoma State) 8:12.07 9 Seth Hejny (Stanford) 8:12.65 10 Hamish Thorpe (Providence) 8:13.16 11 Chris Dugan (NC State) 8:14.10 12 Bryan Berryhill (Colorado State) 8:18.33 13 Sharif Karie (Arkansas) 8:20.05 14 Oliver Bodor (Northern Iowa) 8:21.86 -- Ryan Travis (Arkansas) DNF -- Steve Slattery (Colorado) DNF
