Spokane, Washington — A sold out crowd at The Podium saw meet records in the men’s 1500m, the Heptathlon and men’s 60m Hurdles as champions were crowned at the USATF Indoor Championships presented by BD in downtown Spokane. The meet served as the selection event for the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships to be held March 18-20 in Belgrade, Serbia. Both defending 60m champions retained their titles, with Christian Coleman (Lexington, Kentucky/USATF Kentucky) equaling the world lead in the men’s dash with a 6.45 and Mikiah Brisco (Baton Rouge, Louisiana/USATF Southern) outleaning Marybeth Sant Price (Denver, Colorado/USATF Colorado) for the women’s gold in 7.07. Three-time U.S. champion Marvin Bracy (Jacksonville, Florida/USATF Florida) pushed Coleman all the way and tied his own lifetime best with a 6.48, while Sant Price finished in 7.08. World indoor record holder Grant Holloway (Gainesville, Florida/USATF Florida) continued his perfect streak in the men’s 60m hurdles that dates back to 2014, equaling the meet record of 7.37 and winning by .1 over Jarret Eaton (Baltimore, Maryland/USATF Potomac Valley) to claim his first U.S. indoor crown. Taking only seven strides to the first hurdle as opposed to the more-common eight used by most hurdlers, Holloway quickly established a gap that never lessened as he skimmed over the five barriers and notched his third sub-7.40 clocking of the year. He tied the meet record set in 2009 by 2021 USATF Hall of Fame inductee Terrence Tramell. Another meet, another win for Ryan Crouser (Redmond, Oregon/USATF Oregon). Crouser, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and world indoor and outdoor world record holder in the men’s shot put, launched a world-leading 22.03m/72-3.5 in round one and improved to 22.24m/72-11.75 in the third round. On his next throw, Crouser hit his best mark of the day with a 22.51m/73-10.25 to wrap up his third straight U.S. indoor title. Josh Awotunde (Columbia, South Carolina/USATF New Jersey) set a lifetime best of 21.74m/71-4 to place second, and Roger Steen (Luck, Wisconsin/USATF Wisconsin) was third with a lifetime best of 21.07m/69-1.5. Tokyo Olympics 10th-place finisher Cole Hocker (Indianapolis, Indiana/USATF Indiana) was mired in the back and middle of the pack through the first half of the men’s 1,500 but steadily moved up and was fourth with a lap to go. As a large group battled toward the finish line, Hocker again had the most effective kick and grabbed the win with a 26.89 final 200m to stop the clock at 3:39.09 and break the meet record of 3:40.80 that was set in 2004. Josh Thompson (Hillsboro, Oregon/USATF Oregon) was second in 3;39.24 and three other men also broke the old meet record. Ajee’ Wilson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/USATF Mid-Atlantic) sped to the front from the gun in the women’s 800m and never relinquished control on the way to her seventh national title, crossing the line in 2:01.72 to turn back Olivia Baker’s (Atlanta, Georgia/USATF Georgia) 2:02.14 in second. Wilson, the indoor American record holder, passed 400m in 61.61 and 600m in 1:32.58 before a 29.14 last 200m sealed her victory. Wilson’s seven wins includes a victory in the 1,000m in 2019, and she tied Joetta Clark for most career wins in the 800/1,000. Defending men’s 800m champion Bryce Hoppel (Midland, Texas/USATF Missouri Valley) followed the early pace of Erik Sowinski (Iowa City, Iowa/USATF Iowa) through 400m in 52.42 before assuming the lead and pulling the field through 600m in 1:18.85. He kept up that torrid pace over the final 200m, covering it in 26.46 to win in 1:45.30. Isaiah Harris (Lewiston, Maine/USATF Pacific Northwest) closed quickly to take second in 1:46.30. Last night’s third-place finisher in the women’s 1,500m, Elle Purrier St. Pierre (Enosburg, Vermont/USATF New England), was looking for redemption in the 3,000m and she ran off the shoulder of world leader Alicia Monson (Longmont, Colorado/USATF Colorado) for the first 13 laps before bursting to the lead and sprinting away from Monson for the win in 8:41.53. Monson held on for second in 8:43.96. It took three jumps for Vashti Cunningham (Las Vegas, Nevada/USATF Nevada) to write her name in the record books again in the women’s high jump, clearing 1.91m/6-3.25 on her first attempt to win her sixth straight U.S. indoor title and equal Eleanor Montgomery for the most wins in the event at the national championships. Cunningham opened at 1.85m/6-0.75, making it the first time, and then sailed over 1.88m/6-2 before her winning effort. Nicole Greene (Atlanta, Georgia/USATF Georgia) and Jelena Rowe (Las Vegas, Nevada/USATF Nevada) also cleared 1.91m/6-3.25, with Greene taking runner-up honors on the basis of fewer misses. It was a lifetime best for Greene. Tokyo Olympic decathlon fourth-place finisher and reigning champion Garrett Scantling (Jacksonville, Florida/USATF Florida) used a lifetime best of 2:43.82 in the 1,000m to finish with 6,382 points and move to No. 9 on the world all-time list in the men’s heptathlon and defend his title. Starting the second day with a solid 7.81 in the 60m hurdles and then clearing 5.20m/17-0.75 in the pole vault, Scantling was clearly the class of the field and took over the No. 3 spot on the American all-time performer list behind world record holder Ashton Eaton and Dan O’Brien. Sam Black (Pinckney, Michigan/USATF Michigan) scored 5,866 for a lifetime best that placed him second. Reigning champion Gabbi Cunningham (Holly Springs, North Carolina/USATF North Carolina) was out of the blocks very quickly and made quick work of the women’s 60m hurdles to defend her title in a lifetime best 7.82. Alaysha Johnson (Fort Lauderdale, Florida/USATF Florida), who returned to serious competition in the event this year after a two-year hiatus, placed second in 7.90. A last round season best of 8.19m/26-10.5 elevated Jarrion Lawson (Springdale, Arkansas/USATF Arkansas) from fourth to the top of the podium in the men’s long jump. Going into the final round, Marquis Dendy (Ocala, Florida/USATF Florida) held the lead at 8.14m/26-8.5, but Lawson came through in the clutch to nab his second career indoor title. 2018 World Athletics World Indoor champion Sandi Morris (Mableton, Georgia/USATF Arkansas) defended her U.S. title in the women’s pole vault and picked up her fourth win with a second-attempt clearance at 4.80m/15-9. In second behind Olympic champion Katie Nageotte (Powder Springs, Georgia/USATF Georgia) after both went over 4.75m/15-7, Morris cleared the next bar while Nageotte missed twice and then went out after a miss at 4.85m/15-11. Five years after winning his first U.S. indoor title in the men’s 35-pound weight throw, Alex Young (LaVergne, Tennessee/USATF Pacific) uncorked a big 24.84m/81-6 in round three to take the lead and he held on to beat Olympic hammer throw teammate Daniel Haugh (Marietta, Georgia/USATF Georgia) by 5cm for win number two as he moved to No. 7 on the all-time American performer list. Between them, Young and Haugh produced six throws beyond 80-feet. Janee’ Kassanavoid (Manhattan, Kansas/USATF Missouri Valley), who was fourth in the hammer at the Olympic Trials last summer, won the women’s 20-pound weight throw with a lifetime best 24.28m/79-8. Avenging her loss to Tori Franklin (New York, New York/USATF New York) at the USATF Indoor Championships in 2020 when both women broke the American record, Keturah Orji (Atlanta, Georgia/USATF Georgia) won the women’s triple jump with her first attempt of 14.28m/46-10.25. Orji backed that up with a 14.11m/46-3.5 on her next jump and four of her efforts on the day would have been good enough to win. Franklin was the runner-up with a 13.78m/45-2.5 in the third stanza. Winning his fourth U.S. indoor title and third in a row, Donald Scott (Ypsilanti, Michigan/USATF Michigan) spanned 16.88m/55-4.75 in round four of the men’s triple jump to take the lead for good from Chris Carter (Houston, Texas/USATF Gulf). Carter had a best of 16.67m/54-8.25 on his third attempt, with Will Claye (New York, New York/USATF New York) third at 16.63m/54-6.75. Scott’s mark is the best by an American in 2022. He was eighth in the Olympic Trials men’s 400m hurdles last summer and has a shelf full of NCAA Division II trophies, but Trevor Bassitt (Elida, Ohio/USATF Ohio) had never before won a U.S. title. That changed Sunday as the Ashland University senior slingshotted off the final turn and dashed for home to win the 400m in 45.75 ahead of American indoor 800m record-holder Donavan Brazier (Grand Rapids, Michigan/USATF Oregon), who was second in 46.14. In the women’s 400m, Tokyo 4x400m relay gold medalist Lynna Irby (Indianapolis, Indiana/USATF Indiana) made a strong move in the final 100m of her section to run down Naasha Robinson (Mission, Kansas/USATF Alabama) and win in 51.88 with Jessica Beard (Ocoee, Florida/USATF Florida) scoring a season best of 52.05 in second. Full results may be found here. All multi-events, pre-TV window track events and a mix of open field events are available on demand at usatf.tv. 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