Hollensteiner wins 400 hurdles race at Nike Outdoors
Daily Inter Lake | Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 1 year, 2 months AGO
EUGENE, Ore. — William Hollensteiner followed up his All-America showing on Saturday with a victory at the Nike Outdoor Nationals on Sunday, in the Emerging Elite 400-meter hurdles.
Hollensteiner, a senior-to-be at Flathead High, finished the race in 52.12 seconds — nearly two seconds ahead of second place Jaydan Martinez out of Colorado. The Emerging Elite distinction implies a slower field than the Championship final, which ran right after.
Hollensteiner’s time would have placed seventh in that race as well.
Montana high school athletes run the 300 hurdles; the 400 hurdles are the college distance. Andrew Jones out of Texas won the Championship 400 hurdles in 50.66 seconds; the top six runners broke 52.
Hollensteiner was sixth in the Championship open 400 on Saturday, clocking 47.30 and earning All-America status. He also ran in the Emerging Elite 200 on Friday, finishing 38th at 22.26. His PR is 21.94, set at the State AA meet at Legends Stadium on May 24.
Saturday’s winning time was 21.44, by Georgian Kameron Bethea.
More area athletes completed Sunday, which concluded the four-day meet. Flathead graduate Alivia Rinehart clocked 25.33 in the girls 200 championship prelims. It was off her PR of 24.54 set at the State AA meet, and 43rd overall on Sunday (sixth in her heat). The top 10 times advanced to the finals.
Whitefish’s Simon Douglas placed 73rd in the Emerging Elite 1-mile, in 4 minutes, 28.99 seconds. There were 88 competitors; the winning time was 4:12.47.
Douglas ran a personal-record 1:54.39 while finishing 14th in Saturday’s Emerging Elite 800.
Glacier’s Owen Thiel won the first heat of the Championship 1-mile Sunday, finishing in 4:11.32. He was 11th after one lap, seventh after two and then took the lead on lap three. His third and fourth splits were 1:01.72 and 1:01.02.
Thiel ended up 18th overall. A pair of runners running in the fourth and final heat nearly broke the 4-minute mark: Iowan Quentin Nauman clocked 4:00.52, beating Nike Elite runner Evan Noonan (4:00.53) in a photo finish.
Hunter Loesch, the standout javelin thrower from Corvallis, placed third in his signature event Sunday with a mark of 217 feet, 4 inches. Bryson Jacobs out of Missouri threw 220-3, one inch farther than runner-up Nolan Carey of Pennsylvania.
Results can be found at nikeoutdoornationals.runnerspace.com.