{"id":50,"date":"2011-12-16T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-12-16T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T08:18:09","slug":"us-for-perth-track-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/track\/us-for-perth-track-meet","title":{"rendered":"US for Perth Track meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brown-Trafton.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51 \" title=\"Stephanie Brown-Trafton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brown-Trafton.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Brown-Trafton\" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brown-Trafton.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brown-Trafton-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Brown-Trafton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The stars and stripes are coming to Western Australia with the Go for 2 &amp; 5 Perth Track Classic on 11 February set to welcome Olympic discus champion Stephanie Brown-Trafton (USA), US javelin record holder Kara Patterson (USA) and former US pole vault champion Mark Hollis (USA).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The hat-trick of Americans will go head-to-head with three of Australia\u2019s best athletes including reigning Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker (WA), former discus world champion Dani Samuels (NSW) and Commonwealth silver medallist in javelin Kimberley Mickle (WA).<\/p>\n<p>The Go for 2 &amp; 5 Perth Track Classic is the second-stop of the 2012 Australian Athletics Tour and promises to showcase the best Australian athletes against top international competition.<\/p>\n<p>Inthe women\u2019s discus fans can expect a tremendous competition between Samuels and Brown-Trafton whose first head-to-head meeting came at the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing, where the American claimed gold.<\/p>\n<p>Since then Samuels has beaten the 32-year-old 10 consecutive times, but Brown-Trafton broke that run this year having finished ahead of the Australian in both Monaco and Daegu.<\/p>\n<p>They have met on Australian soil twice before, in 2009, but this will be their first duel in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Samuels said: \u201cStephanie is a great competitor, having the reigning Olympic champion from USA here is great for me and my Olympic preparations but also obviously her preparation as well as she aims to defend her title. It\u2019s a great credit to the Australian Athletics Tour. We enjoyed some good competition during my 2009 world championship preparation in bothSydney and Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving someone of her quality here is important for me plus the fans get to see a defending Olympic champion before the Games are in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Australian Athletics Tour is always a big part of my season. I love competing in Perth, I\u2019m excited to challenge the reigning Olympic champion, I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2012 Australian Athletics Tour<br \/>\n28\/01\/12 Adelaide Track Classic<br \/>\n11\/02\/12 Go for 2 &amp;5 Perth Track Classic<br \/>\n18\/02\/12 Sydney Track Classic<br \/>\n02\/03\/12 \u2013 03\/03\/12 IAAF Melbourne Track Classic<\/p>\n<p>2012 National Athletics Series<br \/>\n14\/01\/12 Brisbane Athletics Classic<br \/>\n21\/01\/12 Hunter Track Classic<br \/>\n04\/02\/12 Briggs Athletics Classic (Hobart)<br \/>\n25\/02\/12 Australian 20km race walking championships<br \/>\n14\/03\/12 \u2013 18\/03\/12 Australian Junior Athletics Championships<br \/>\n13\/04\/12 \u2013 15\/04\/12 Australian Athletics Championships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stars and stripes are coming to Western Australia with the Go for 2 &amp; 5 Perth Track Classic on 11 February set to welcome Olympic discus champion Stephanie Brown-Trafton (USA), US javelin record holder Kara Patterson (USA) and former US pole vault champion Mark Hollis (USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,63,3],"tags":[66,64,196,200],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pre-event","category-track","tag-perth","tag-stephanie-brown-trafton","tag-track","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}