Aramco Houston Awarded USA Half Marathon Championships
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Author: Aramco ExPats
Released 6 July 2006
USA Track & Field announced on Thursday that the Aramco Houston Half Marathon has been awarded the 2007 and 2008 USA Half Marathon Championships for men and women.
The 2007 USA Half-Marathon Championships will be held in conjunction with the thirty-fifth running of the Chevron Houston Marathon on January 14, 2007.
The Championship hosted by the Aramco Houston Half Marathon will offer a total purse of $51,500, with $10,000 going to each of the first-place U.S. male and female finisher. The race will also be used to qualify two athletes from the top three U.S. finishers for the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships to be held in Italy.
"USATF's selection of the Aramco Houston Half Marathon as the site of the USA men's and women's Half Marathon Championships for the next two years is a reaffirmation of our organizing committee's continuing commitment to American distance running," said Race Director Brant Kotch. "Our flat, fast course and the attention that our committee gives to the elite athletes make our event particularly well-suited to hosting America's finest athletes at the half marathon distance."