Does Cole Hocker Have the Olympic Standard?
Hocker Did Not Automatically Qualify as the Winner of the Us Olympic Trials at Hayward Field, His Home Stadium for His College Oregon, Due to Not Possessing...
Hocker did not automatically qualify as the winner of the US Olympic trials at Hayward Field, his home stadium for his college Oregon, due to not possessing the Olympic standard (3:35.00). But he made it on the world ranking system, with his personal best standing at 3:35.28 - though he has also run a 3:50 mile.
Does Hocker have Olympic standard?
Because Hocker does not have the Olympic standard of 3:35.0, he'll have to wait until the World Athletic rankings are updated Tuesday to see if he qualifies for the Summer Games, though there didn't seem to be any doubt that would happen.
Did Cole Hocker qualify for the Olympics?
Cole Hocker is in. Yared Nuguse is out. That was the outcome of Tuesday night's 1,500-meter heats at the Tokyo Olympics. Hocker, a 20-year-old from Indianapolis, finished fourth in heat 1 and easily qualified for Thursday's semifinals (7 a.m. EDT).
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