2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials

Football, Track Star Devon Allen Wins 110m Hurdles at Olympic Trials

Football, Track Star Devon Allen Wins 110m Hurdles at Olympic Trials

EUGENE, Ore. - Two years after winning his first major U.S. championship in the 110m hurdles, Devon Allen took Hayward Field by storm Saturday night by winn

Jul 10, 2016 by Meg Bellino
Football, Track Star Devon Allen Wins 110m Hurdles at Olympic Trials
EUGENE, Ore. - Two years after winning his first major U.S. championship in the 110m hurdles, Devon Allen took Hayward Field by storm Saturday night by winning the Olympic Trials in 13.03 (+1.0). 



Footage courtesy of NBCOlympics (http://liveextra.nbcsports.com) and USOC

Allen pulled away over the final two hurdles to run the second-fastest mark by an NCAA athlete outside the regular collegiate season. He joins Omar McLeod (Arkansas) and collegiate record-holder Renaldo Nehemiah (Maryland) as the only collegians who have run under 13.10.



Ronnie Ash, who represented Team USA in Beijing last summer but was DQ'd from his prelim, finished second in 13.21 to make his first Olympic team. 30-year-old Jeff Porter finished third to make his second-consecutive Olympic team in 13.21, only one one-thousandth of a second behind Ash.

Race favorites David Oliver and Aries Merritt fell short. Oliver suffered an injury during his semi-final and scratched from the final, and Merritt, who is recovering from a kidney transplant, finished fourth in 13.22.