Competing for the United States team, Steven Cross won the men's 10,000-meter race in Lima, Peru at the nineteenth Pan American Junior Athletics Championships on Saturday, 22 July 2017. Closing with the same kind of dominating last lap that had won him the US Junior Championship, Cross ran 32:09.66 to edge silver-medalist Aidan Reed (32:10.15) of the United States and bronze medalist Yuri Phututi (32:13.33) of Peru. Cross is a first-year student on the track and cross-country teams at Florida State University.The Pan American Junior Athletics Championships were first held in 1980, but the men's 10,000-meter race wasn't added to the program till 1989. The Pan Am juniors have been held every two years since then. Prior to 1980, the top US juniors competed in the US vs USSR dual meet.
Men's 10,000, 2017 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships
- 32:09.66, Steven Cross (United States)
- 32:10.15, Aidan Reed (United States)
- 32:13.33, Yuri H Labra Phututi (Peru)
- 32:30.26, Luis R Toapnata Farinango (Ecuador)
- 32:55.86, Omar E Ramos Quiza (Peru)
- 33:47.73, Cristian P Conteron Chiliquin (Ecuador)
| Pan American Junior Athletics Championships Men's 10,000-meter champions, 1989 - 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Host City | Athlete | Performance |
| 1989 | Santa Fe ARG | Alejandro Villanueva (MEX) | 29:28.6 |
| 1991 | Kingston JAM | Janik Lambert (CAN) | 30:29.25 |
| 1993 | Winnipeg CAN | Elías Bastos (BRA) | 30:21.12 |
| 1995 | Santiago CHI | David Galindo (MEX) | 29:46.72 |
| 1997 | Havana CUB | Edegar Lobo (BRA) | 30:45.73 |
| 1999 | Tampa USA | Jesse Thomas (USA) | 31:15.63 |
| 2001 | Santa Fe ARG | Franck de Almeida (BRA) | 30:28.73 |
| 2003 | Bridgetown BAR | Brett Gotcher (USA) | 30:39.51 |
| 2005 | Windsor CAN | Neal Naughton (USA) | 30:12.14 |
| 2007 | São Paulo BRA | Kenneth Klotz (USA) | 31:04.57 |
| 2009 | Port of Spain TRI | Victor Aravena (CHI) | 31:01.70 |
| 2011 | Miramar USA | Parker Stinson (USA) | 30:37.88 |
| 2013 | Medellin COL | Matt McClintock (USA) | 31:12.39 |
| 2015 | Edmonton CAN | Connor Hendrickson (USA) | 30:46.66 |
| 2017 | Trujillo PER | Steven Cross (USA) | 32:09.66 |
| The first Pan Am Junior Games were held in 1980. The men's 10,000 was added to the program in 1989. | |||
Links
- “Sunshine state athletes Cross and Leverone are set for a hot national championship 10,000”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/06/usatf-jr-men-10k-2017-pre.html
- Florida State University Seminoles' 2017 cross-country schedule
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/07/fsu-xc-schedule-2017.html - Florida State University Cross Country
http://www.seminoles.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=157111&SPSID=917015&DB_OEM_ID=32900
- Upcoming races in the Tallahassee region on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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