University Southern California Trojans
Mark Crear Adds To USC Medal Count
Sept. 25, 2000
Former Trojan Mark Crear ran 13.22 to win the Bronze Medal in the 110-meter hurdles on Monday at Olympic Stadium in Sydney.
It was the first track and field medal by a current or former Trojan athlete in the 2000 Olympics and the 65th Olympic Track and Field medal overall to be won by an athlete with a USC affiliation.
Crear, who won a silver in the 110-meter hurdles in 1996 in Atlanta, was a 1992 national champion at USC in the hurdles and is the current Trojan record holder in that event. Crear was ranked first in the world in the event in three of the last six years.
In other track news:
--Current USC All-American Brigita Langerholc, competing for Slovenia, just missed a bronze medal in the 800-meter final on Monday. She ran 1:58.51 to finish in fourth place--1.71 seconds behind Kelly Holmes of Great Britain--and broke her own school record in the process.
--The just-gradutated Natasha Danvers, who won the 2000 NCAA 400-meter hurdles title, advanced to the finals of that event on Monday with a personal-best and school record time of 54.95. The finals will take place on Wednesday night. Danvers is competing for Great Britain.
--The just-graduated Felix Sanchez, the 2000 NCAA 400-meter hurdles champ and school record-holder, made the semifinals of that event, but failed to make the finals as he placed seventh in heat two with a time of 49.69. He competed for the Dominican Republic.
