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(AP) --  Galen Rupp and Amy Begley each repeated
as national champions at the USA Outdoor Track and Field
Championships.

 The majority of the events in Des Moines were for the junior outdoor
championships, so the men's and women's 10,000 races took center
stage.

 Rupp won his second straight national outdoor title on Thursday
night, winning in 28 minutes, 59.29 seconds. Begley beat hometown
favorite Lisa Koll with a big kick about 500 meters from the finish
and won in 32:06.45.

 Erica McLain won the triple jump on her first try, in 46 feet,
6¼ inches.

 Sanya Richards-Ross ran the 400 for the first time this season
after straining her quadriceps at the Penn Relays. Richards-Ross,
the defending world outdoor champion, qualified with a time of
51.91.

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