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Collin Mickow finishes 46th at Worlds Marathon for U.S. Team

Princeton's Colin Mickow will run for the. U.S. National Teams in the Worlds Marathon Championships Sunday in Oregon. He is a 2008 PHS graduate.

Collin Mickow of Princeton finished 46th in Sunday’s Worlds Athletics Championship Marathon in Oregon.

The No. 3 runner for the U.S. team, Mickow turned in a time of 2 hours, 16 minutes, 37 seconds. According to runnersworld.com, Mickow took a fall at a water stop at the 7-mile mark and later had cramping bad enough he needed a wheelchair after the event.

Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia won the race with a time of 2:05.36, setting a new championship record.

Mickow’s U.S. teammates, Galen Rupp, placed 19th in 2:09.36 and Elkinah Tibut was 24th in 2:11.20.

A 2008 Princeton High School graduate, Mickow, 32, qualified for the U.S. team as the second American finisher in last November’s Chicago Marathon behind Rupp, finishing sixth overall.

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin has been sports editor of the BCR since 1986 and is Sports Editor of Putnam County Record. Was previously sports editor of the St. Louis Daily News and a regular contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals Magazine. He is a member of the IBCA and Illinois Valley Hall of Fames. He is one of 4 sportswriters from his tiny hometown Atlanta, IL