Armstrong wins women's 100m hurdles title
Indoor 60m hurdles champion Alia Armstrong followed up her winter success with her first outdoor national title on Saturday when she won the women's 100m hurdles.
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In lane nine, this is Aliyah McCormack 12.44 personal best, she ran that this year.
She just finished her collegiate career at Oregon with three NCAA titles, two outdoors, one indoor.
Just inside her, in lane eight, Amber Hughes out of Atlanta, Georgia.
Third indoors this year, fifth in each of the last two US indoor championships.
She's actually had more success indoors.
Here's Tara Davis-Woodhall starting in lane seven.
For somebody who has taken a long time off of this event, she sure didn't look it in running 12.47 behind the Olympic champion a couple months ago.
Aliyah Armstrong, lane six, had a really good semifinal.
Yes, she did.
Fastest time in the semifinal round, 12.53, despite the headwinds.
She was fourth at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.
Here's Alesha Johnson, also a great semifinal.
She went to the Olympics in Paris, finishing in seventh.
She has a personal best of 12.31.
She was the second fastest in the semifinal.
Unfinished business for Taniya Marshall.
Can she get a win or get on the podium here?
She has never been on a USA outdoor podium, but she won her semifinal, and maybe this is the year.
Here she is, Keni Harrison, the hurdling legend.
The fourth fastest ever at the distance and the former world record holder.
The younger US hurdlers, though, have kept her off of every US team since 2023.
Rania Jones.
Benefiting from training under Tonja Buford-Bailey and alongside Gabby Thomas, the three-time Olympic gold medalist.
12.43 this year.
She is having a great year.
And Alexandra Webster in lane one on the inside.
12.89 for third in her semifinal.
She's run 12.70 for a personal best two years ago, and 12.71 ver- Set.
Final of the women's 100 hurdles away.
Really good start, Aliyah Armstrong.
Taniya Marshall's going with her.
Tara Davis-Woodhall.
What about on the inside, Rania Jones?
Now coming back, Alesha Johnson, but look at that, Aliyah Armstrong.
Great semifinal converts into a national title.
So that is her very first outdoor national title.
She was the fastest in the semifinal, and she's the fastest in the final.
Here's a look at them going over the last hurdle, and she leans across the tape to secure that win against the Olympian, Alesha Johnson.
She was off to a great start.
You caught that, Leigh.
And Tara Davis-Woodhall to her right could not keep up.
Alesha Johnson closed ground, but ran out of ground.
So the woman who won the indoor title at 60 hurdles now adds the outdoor national title as well.
Aliyah Armstrong has been undefeated at US nationals indoors and out this year.
And congrats to Tara Davis-Woodhall getting third in that behind Alesha Johnson
