With the USA Track & Field Championships just three weeks away, Jen Rhines stayed sharp with a very crisp 15:14.88 5000 meter effort on Sunday in Hengelo, The Netherlands. As the results below indicate, Rhines was the first non-African finisher in the race. Rhines seems to be getting steadily faster as the season progresses: she came home in Hengelo 23 seconds faster than her third place finish on the roads at the Carlsbad 5000 in early April and 18 seconds faster than her second place finish at Stanford in late March. Her time Sunday was her best 5000 meters on the track since 2009, when her SB was 15:07.78. She already well ahead of her 2010 best of 15:22.05 set in Eugene in July.
Fanny Blankers-Koen Games Hengelo (NED) - Sunday, May 29, 2011
5000 Metres - W
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1 Meseret Defar ETH 14:45.48
2 Sentayehu Ejigu ETH 14:46.12
3 Sule Utura ETH 14:46.36
4 Genzebe Dibaba ETH 14:46.55
5 Mercy Cherono KEN 15:02.81
6 Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet KEN 15:11.08
7 Emebet Anteneh ETH 15:12.15
8 Waganesh Mekasha ETH 15:14.69
9 Jennifer Rhines USA 15:14.88
10 Sabrina Mockenhaupt GER 15:24.30
11 Fionnuala Britton IRL 15:31.26
12 Alia Saeed Mohammed UAE 15:40.69
13 Tsegereda Girma ETH 15:40.75
14 Sabina Fischer SUI 15:41.02
15 Hyvin Kiyeng KEN 15:50.97
16 Julie Culley USA 15:58.28
17 Roxana Elisabeta Bârca ROU 16:12.12
Christelle Daunay FRA DNF
Lubov Puliaeva RUS DNF
Tamara Tverdostup UKR DNF
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