EUGENE, Ore. — In a highly anticipated showdown battle in the men's 110 hurdles, two-time Drake Relays champ Daniel Roberts  stole the show, highlighting the final day of competition at the U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field Friday.
 
Entering the final event of the four-day meet all eyes were focused on world leader Devon Allen  and Olympic silver medalist  Grant Holloway who were expected to win the title. 
 
Roberts, running out of  lane seven, ran a season best 13.03 — the No. 3 time in the world— to win his second career national title. It was the fastest race he had run since winning his inaugural national title in Des Moines in 2019.
 
The top three finishers were separated by just six hundredths of a second with Trey Cunningham second (13.08) and Allen third (13.09)
 
Allen, who ran in the 2016 and 2021 Olympics, edged fourth place finisher Jamal Britt, a former Iowa standout by a razor thin margin by three one thousandths of a second (13.087 to 13.090).  Allen, the 2018 Drake Relays champ, entered the meet owning the world's top time of 12.84. Britt's time was the 
 
Meanwhile, Holloway was a late scratch. Just 90 minutes earlier Holloway ran the fastest qualifying time in the semifinal round as well as a season best of 13.03. Holloway already had earned a wild-card entry into the World Championships where he will look to defend his world title.
 
Freddie Crittenden, who was third in the 2018 and 2019 Drake Relays, finished fifth in the 110 hurdles in a personal best 13.14.
 
NCAA champion Abby Steiner, who powered Kentucky to 2022 Drake Relays titles in the 4x400 and sprint medley relays, ran a sizzling 21.77 into a headwind  to win the women's 200. That bettered her own world lead as well as all-time collegiate record.  
 
Steiner was named Track and Field News Women's Collegiate Performer of the Year after sweeping 200 titles in the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships as well as running a leg on the winning 4x400 outdoor relay and placing third in the 100 outdoors.
 
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, finished fourth in 22.16.
 
Former Drake Relays champion Brittany Brown (2017 4x100 relay)  ran 22.22 to finish fifth behind Sturgis. Brown was a former NCAA Indoor 200 champ at the University of Iowa and a silver medalist in 200 at the 2019 World Championships.
 
The women's 800 promised to be the event of the meet, and it didn't disappoint.
 
Reigning Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu  held off a late charge by 2022 World Indoor champ Ajee Wilson to win the women's 800 1:57.16 to 1:57.23. It was a season best for Wilson, who won the 2015 Drake Relays invitational women's 800, while just falling short of claiming her fifth career national outdoor title. 

Olympic bronze medalist Raevyn Rogers  slingshotted out of the pack to pass three runners for third in a season best 1:57.96.
 
Allie Wilson, who captured the 2022 Drake Relays title, finished fourth in the women's 800 in 1:58.35.
 
Karissa Schweizer, the outstanding women's performer of the 2019 Drake Relays, qualified for her second event in the upcoming World Championships in the 5,000 after winning the 10,000 national title May 27.
 
Schweizer, a former West Des Moines Dowling standout, was clipped at the finish line by Bowerman Track Club training partner Elise Cranny by 17/hundredths of a second in the 5,000— 15:49.15 to 15:49.32.
 
With 1600 meters remaining, Schweizer—who placed fourth in the 1,500 on Saturday—picked up the pace. With two laps, four women separated themselves: Schweizer, U.S. Indoor record holder Cranny, world championship bronze medalist Emily Infeld and Weini Kelati. 
 
Schweizer, Cranny and Infeld battled down the final straightaway, trading leads multiple times.
 
The top three finishers in each event, who have reached the World Championships qualifying standard, will represent Team USA at the World Championships that returns to Track Town July 15-24.
 
Two-time Olympian Clayton Murphy, who is a four-time Drake Relays champ including invitational 800 titles in 2015 and 2016, fell short in his bid to win a fourth career outdoor national title. 
 
Texas A&M's Brandon Miller duked it out with a late-charging Murphy for the third qualifying spot. Miller overtook Murphy, the bronze medalist in the 2016 Olympics, with a dramatic dive at the line securing a trip to the World Championships. Miller's time was 1:45.19 to 1:45.23 by Murphy who ran a season best.
 
Former Iowa NCAA champ Erik Sowinski,  appearing in his 16^thfinal in a USATF Indoor and Outdoor Championship, placed seventh in 1:46.01. It marked the 103^rdsub 1:47 800 time in Sowinski's career and his 205^thunder 1:50.
 
Drake Relays alumni swept the top three spots in the men's triple jump. World Indoor Championships bronze medalist Donald Scott, who competed in the 2016 & 2017 Drake Relays, soared a season-best 56 feet to win his seventh career U.S. title (indoors and outdoors). 
 
Will Claye, who won the 2015 Drake Relays title, finished second with a season-best 55-6.5. He was fourth in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Two-time Olympian Chris Benard, who was second in the 2017 Drake Relays, finished third at 55-2.75.
 
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Christian Taylor,who won the 2013 and 2017 Drake Relays invitational crowns, finished fifth at 54-3.25
 
Reigning Drake Relays university-college champ James Carter of Iowa finished 15th in the triple jump at 51-10. He finished seventh in the men's long jump Friday. 
 
Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Kenny Bednarek, who won the 2019 Drake Relays invitational 200, ran a season best in the finals of his specialty in 19.87, but missed out by fourth one hundredths of a second of finishing in the top three being clipped at the tape by 100 champ Fred Kerley who ran 19.83. Bednarek was a former three-time national junior college champ at Indian Hills Community College.
 
Earlier, former Drake Relays university-college 100 champs Isiah Young and Brandon Carnes failed to advance out of the semifinal round on Sunday running 20.23 and 20.42, respectively
 
Amere Lattin, who was sixth in the 2022 Drake Relays, ran a personal 48.53 in the men's 400 hurdles but it wasn't good enough to secure a berth on the World Championship team as he finished sixth. Aldrich Bailey, who waseighth at the 2022 Drake Relays) ran 49.43 to finish seventh.
 
Rai Benjamin, silver medalist in the Tokyo Olympics, won the 400 hurdles in a world-leading time of 47.04
 
Tim Glover, who won three Drake Relays titles from 2013-15, finished fifth in the men's javelin with a throw of 250-6.
 
2021 OlympianJessica Ramseyrecorded the top finish by a Drake Relays alumni in the women's shot put, finishing sixth at 61-7.5
 
Three-time Olympian Michele Carter, 36, who  was first American to win a gold medal in the shot put finished eighth( 58-1.75) in her final appearance before retiring. Carter won the 2007 Drake Relays invitational.
 
Emmanuel Bor, who has run in six Drake Relays, was fifth in the men's 5,000 with a personal best 13:13.15. Willy Fink, who was third in the 1,500 at the Drake Relays April 30, finished 16h in 14:06.07.
 
In the men's high jump final, Nebraska's Mayson Conner, who won the Drake Relays university-college title April 29, tied for ninth at 7-1.5. Brayden Sorenson, who was second at the 2021 Drake Relays, failed to clear the opening bar at 7-1.5.
 
Abby Kohut-Jackson, a native of Ballard, Iowa, who runs at the University of Minnesota, was 12^thin the women's 3,000 steeplechase in 9:49.70.