One week earlier, at the Prefontaine Classic, both the women's 800m and 1,500m races had falls which influenced the outcome of the race.
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Kenia Sinclair (right) of Jamaica led through 400 meters.
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R-L: Sinclair, Kameisha Bennett, Marian Burnett, Jen Toomey, Neisha Bernard-Thomas, and Treniere Clement.
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Six of the nine runners in the field were recent college grads, so many of them had raced each other recently, and three of them had won NCAA titles in this event.
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R-L: Kenia Sinclair, Jen Toomey, Marian Burnett, Kameisha Bennett, Neisha Bernard-Thomas, Alice Schmidt, and Treniere Clement.
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