EUGENE, Ore. — Four former Drake Relays champions captured individual titles during Day Three of the Toyota USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field Friday.
 
The women's 100 hurdles final produced fireworks in the form of world record holder Keni Harrison, a four-time Drake Relays champ, zipping to a world-leading 12.34.
 
Tonea Marshall, who was second in the 2022 Drake Relays invitational, finished fourth in 12.56. Tia Jones, the 2022 Drake Relays invitational champ, was fifth in 12.59. North Carolina A&T's Paula Salmon, who was fourth at the 2022 Drake Relays, finished sixth in the finals in 12.78.
 
Chris Nilsen, the 2019 & 2022 Drake Relays invitational champ, won his second straight national outdoor title in the pole vault at 18 -8.25. Nilsen earned the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Andrew Irwin, who won the  2019 Drake Relays Capital Square pole vault title, finished third with a season-best 18-4.5, while Drake Relays alum KC Lightfoot tied for fifth at 18-4.5. Kentucky's  Keaton Daniel, who won the  2021 Drake Relays university-college title, tied for tenth at 18-0.5
 
Final Throw Propels Winger To Ninth Title
 
On the final throw of what might be her final USA Championships, 36-year-old Kara Winger launched a season-best throw of 210-10 on the last throw of the competition to not only win her ninth U.S. title in the women's javelin, but also to achieve the qualifying standard that will carry her to her sixth World Championships in the women's javelin throw. 
 
Winger took over the lead from Ariana Ince  in round five with a 198-4 before her big finale.
 
Winger, a four-time Olympian, took over the lead in round five. Winger was the 2009 and 2010 Drake Relays champ, while setting an American record at the 2010 U.S. Championships held in Des Moines.
 
Nebraska's Maddie Harris, who won the 2022 Drake Relays university-college javelin, finished sixth at 178-6.  Kari Wolfe from North Dakota State, who was the 2021 Drake Relays champ, placed 11^that 163-4.
 
American record holder Keturah Orji bounded out to the third farthest women's triple jump in U.S. history, spanning 48-6.25 in round four to win her sixth straight national title. Orji, who was seventh at the Tokyo Games, captured the 2022 Drake Relays invitational long jump title. Tori Franklin, who won a Drake Relays title in 2017, placed second at 47-10.5. 
 
Former Iowa State standout Hillary Bor became a back-to-back U.S. 3000 steeplechase champion, using a 60.67 final 400 meters to break up a pack of four and pull away for a decisive victory in 8:15.76. It was the third career title as well for the two-time Olympian.
 
Daniel Michalski, who won the 3,000 steeplechase at the Drake Relays April 29, finished 13^thin 8:41.49. 
 
McLaughlin Sets World Record
 
It was déjà vu all over again as Olympic champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin  ventured into uncharted territory in the women's 400 hurdles, taking down her own world record with a majestic 51.41. McLaughlin won the Olympic Trials at Hayward Field last summer with a world record of 51.90, and then she lowered it to 51.46 at the Games in Tokyo.
 
Shamier Little, the 2015 World Championships silver medalist, was third in a season-best 53.92, .06 ahead of a diving Anna Cockrell who ran a season-best 53.98. Cockrell was third in the 2022 Drake Relays, while Little was fifth.
 
Kentucky's Masai Russell, who won the 2022 Drake Relays university-college title, was sixth in 55.66. Ashley Spencer, who was second at the 2021 Drake Relays, did not complete the race.

North Carolina A&T  junior Randolph Ross, who was named the outstanding men's performer of the 2022 Drake Relays, finished third in the men's 400 final in 44.17. Ross, who earned a gold medal as a member of Team USA 4x400 relay at the Tokyo Olympics, set a Drake Relays university-college 400 record, while running the anchor leg on the Aggies' 4x100 relay which set another Drake Relays record.
 
Vernon Norwood, who was second in the 400 in the 2017 Drake Relays, placed fifth in a personal best 44.35. Michael Norman clocked a world-leading 43.56 to win the men's 400 race.
 
Urbandale, Iowa native Karissa Schweizer, who ran in both the 5,000 and 10,000 at the Tokyo Olympics, finished fourth in the women's 1,500 final in 4:05.40.
 
Schweizer, who won the 5,000 at the 2019 Drake Relays running for Missouri en route to being named the meet's outstanding performer, will be in the 5,000 final Sunday.
 
Drake junior Isaac Basten, who was won of three collegians competing in the men's 1500, finished 10^thin the race in 3:47.19. 
 
Basten won the Drake Relays university-college 1,500 April 30 during an outdoor campaign in which he also won the Missouri Valley Conference 1,500 title, while placing tenth in the NCAA Championships June 10.  
   
Ten-time national champion Allyson Felix, who ran in the 2006 Drake Relays,  finished sixth in the women's 400 finals in 51.24. The top-six finish enabled the 11-time Olympic medalist to be in contention for the 4x400 relay pool in the upcoming World Championships.
 
6 Drake Relays Alumni Advance in 110 Hurdles
 
Six Drake Relays alumni advanced into the semifinal round of men's 110 hurdles including hurdlers who posted five of the top eight qualifying times. World leader Devon Allen, who won the 2018 Drake Relays, led the contingent posting the  third fastest qualifying time at 13.27 followed by 2019 and 2021 Drake Relays champ Daniel Roberts who ran 13.28.
 
Freddie Crittenden, who was third at Drake in 2018 and 2019, ran 13.32 in the first round followed by Iowa's Jamal Britt 13.33 and Josh Brockman 13.62. 2017 Drake Relays champ Aaron Mallett was the final Iowa hurdler to move to the semifinals after running 13.51. 
 
Iowa's Gratt Reed and Grant Conway, ran 13:87 and 14.14, respectively, but didn't advance.
 
Four Drake Relays champs advanced through the first round of the women's 200. NCAA champion and world leader Abby Steiner sped through the curve and came away with the fastest heat winning time, taking the second section in 22.14. 
 
Steiner,  recently named Track and Field News Women's Collegiate Performer of the Year, ran legs on Kentucky's 4x400 and sprint medley relays, which won 2022 Drake Relays titles.
 
Cambrea Sturgis, who was named the outstanding performer of the 2021 Drake Relays after leading North Carolina A&T to victories in the 4x100 and 40x400 relays, had the second fastest qualifying time in the 200 at 22.24.
 
Ohio State's Anavia Battle, the 2018 Drake Relays university-college 100 champ, also advanced to the semifinal round in 22.57.
 
Former Drake Relays champion Brittany Brown (2017 4x100 relay) ran 22.90 to move to the semifinal round. Brown, a former NCAA champ at the University of Iowa and a silver medalist in 200 at the 2019 World Championships.
 
In the first round of the men's 200 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Kenny Bednarek, who won the men's invitational 200 at the 2019 Drake Relays, advanced to the semifinal round with the third fastest qualifying time of  20.10.
 
Also advancing were Isiah Young, 20.13;  Brandon Carnes  20.21; and Javonte' Harding, 20.42. Young won the 2012 and 2013 Drake Relays university-college 100, running for Ole Miss. Barnes, who won 16 Missouri Valley Conference individual titles for Northern Iowa, won the 2016 and 2017 Drake Relays university-college 100. 
 
Harding won the 2022 Drake Relays university-college 100, while running a leg on the North Carolina A&T 4x100 relay, which set a Drake Relays record.
 
10 Drake Relays Champs Compete On Final Day
 
Sunday's final day of competition can be seen on NBC from 3-4 p.m. Central time and the USA Network from 4 to 5 p.m. Central time.
 
Ten former Drake Relays champs will seek national titles on the final day of competition. Finals will be contested on the track in the men's and women's 200, 800 and 5,000 along with finals in the men's 110 and 400 hurdles  as well as the women's steeplechase.
 
Schweizer will start off Sunday morning trying to win her first ever national title in the women's 5,000. 
 
The women's 800 final features two former Drake Relays champions: 2022 World Indoor champ Ajee Wilson, who won the 2015 Drake Relays invitational women's 800; and Allie Wilson, who captured the 2022 Drake Relays title,
 
The men's 800 final includes two-time Olympian Clayton Murphy, who is a four-time Drake Relays champ including invitational 800 titles in 2015 and 2016, and former Iowa standout Erik Sowinski who is competing in his 16th career USA Indoor or Outdoor championship final.
 
James Carter, who swept both the 2022 Drake Relays university-college long jump and triple jump titles, will compete in the triple jump finals Sunday.  He placed seventh in the long jump Friday.
 
Riley Dolezal,  a  2013 Drake Relays champ, is in the men's javelin finals.