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OU Represented at Pan Am Games
July 21, 2007 | Track and Field
July 21, 2007
NORMAN, Okla. - University of Oklahoma track and field will be represented next week at the 15th Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with two athletes who have ties to the Sooner program competing.
OU junior Jacobi Mitchell and 2005 graduate Aldwyn Sappleton take to the track for their native countries. The meet leads a series of significant upcoming competitions, including the 2007 World Athletics Championships and 2008 Olympic Games.
Mitchell, a native of the Bahamas, will be one of the busiest athletes in Rio as he will run the 100- and 200-meter dashes and a leg on the team's 4x100-meter relay.
Mitchell could potentially run each day next week except for Thursday's official rest day. He first takes to the track Monday, July 23, for the first and semifinal rounds of the 100-meter dash.
Sappleton, who recently won his third Jamaican national title in a personal-record time, competes in the 800-meter run.
The preliminary rounds of the 800-meter run are Friday, July 27, with the final Saturday, July 28.
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All the action takes place at Stadium Havelange João, which will be the most popular venue of the Pan American Games as the 45,000-seat stadium houses all track and field and soccer match-ups.
The Pan American Games have been hosted once every four years since 1951 as a competition between national athletes from North American, South American, Central America and the Carribbean. A total of 41 sports will be contested at the 2007 Games.
Saturday, May 30
Friday, May 29
Thursday, May 28
Wednesday, May 27
