NCAA INDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, March 14-15, 2003
ALL PHOTOS ALISON WADE/NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS

FRIDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX | PAGE SEVEN | PAGE EIGHT | PAGE NINE | PAGE TEN (800m semi-finals, Mile semi-finals, 5,000m final and Distance Medley Relay)
SATURDAY: PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO | PAGE THREE | PAGE FOUR | PAGE FIVE | PAGE SIX (Mile final, 800m final, 3,000m final)
MEN'S PHOTOS

L-R: Marian Burnett, Tiffany Burgess, Alice Schmidt and Maggie Vessey at the start of the 800m final.
Schmidt gets forced to the back.
Burnett gets out quickly.
Approaching the 200-meter mark, Lena Nilsson and Nicole Cook make contact as they cut in.
L-R: Beata Rudzinska, Nilsson, Schmidt, Cook, Kristina Bratton, Burnett and Vessey.
Burnett (R) leads at 200 meters.
At 400 meters, Burnett shares the lead with Nilsson.
Both runners split 61.0 for 400 meters, according to Track & Field News.
R-L: Cook, Vessey, Bratton, Rudzinska, Schmidt and Burgess.
R-L: Bratton, Schmidt and Burgess.
Approaching 600 meters, Burnett and Nilsson continue to run side-by-side.
Nilsson lost her lead on the final lap, but regained it down the homestretch.
After barely qualifying for the final, Lena Nilsson fought out...
...a win here, edging out Nicole Cook 2:05.13 to 2:05.19.
Marian Burnett finished third in 2:06.43.
Beata Rudzinska, a sophomore at Akron, finished fifth in 2:07.42.
Nilsson does an interview for ESPN2 shortly after crossing the finish line.
Sara Gorton, the previous night's 5,000m champion, gets ready to run the 3,000m.
Shalane Flanagan had anchored UNC's winning DMR the night before.
Rutgers' Julie Culley was running in her first NCAA track championship.

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