This year will have no IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships, but that doesn’t mean Alysia Johnson-Montano, a 2004 Canyon High graduate, won’t be the United States’ top 800-meter standout.
The four-time U.S. champion in the event has some unfinished business to take care of after an agonizing performance at last fall’s world champs.
In that finals, Montano led from the gun and built up a sizable lead in the final 300 meters. The star with her trademark flower in her hair locked up in the last part of the event, though, diving for the line to take a respectable fourth, just 0.04 of a second off the bronze medal and 0.54 off the gold.
A break-through in the two-lap race could see her redeem herself this spring.
Montano has clocked 1:57.38 and 1:57.75 in the last two seasons. Her Santa Clarita Valley record of 1:57.34 was set in 2010, the same year she won a bronze medal at the IAAF World Indoor Track & Field Championships.
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Alysia- you make us proud!
So proud of u Alysia , you were born for this !