Five Pacific Northwest Members Set to Compete at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon in Florida

Pacific Northwest Entry/Results Scoreboard

The 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon will be held this Saturday (3-Feb) in Orlando, Florida.

Five (5) members of USATF Pacific Northwest are entered in the event that will begin at 7:10 AM PT. The event will be broadcast live on Peacock TV beginning at 7 AM PT.  A total of 215 men and 165 women are entered.

All five Pacific Northwest athletes will compete in the men's race that begins at 7:10 AM PT. Turner Wiley, 30, of Issaquah is entered with a qualifying time of 2:11:59 run at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. This will be his second Olympic Trials. In 2020 he finished 99th running 2:24:54. Wiley competes for Club Northwest.
  Brian Masterson, 29, of Seattle, comes to Orlando with a qualifying time of 2:16:02 from his third place finishe at the 2023 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon just three months ago. He is a 2016 graduate of Darmouth College.
  Roman Kirkov, 30, a Firefighter/EMT from Chehalis qualified for the trial running 2:16:50 just two months ago at the California International Marathon. Kirkov was born in Ukraine and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1997, at the age of four.

"After college, I told myself I wasn’t ever going to run again, I was burnt out from it. A couple of months later I was just jogging around for fun and my friend invited me to a Turkey Trot. Fast forward 6 years and I have qualified for the Olympic Trials. Running has had its ups and downs trying to adjust to being a father and to starting a new job as a full-time firefighter/EMT while trying to adjust to the stresses of the job but at the same time trying to run high mileage has had its challenges"

The youngest entry in Orlando is Adam Sjolund, 22 of Bonney Lake. Sjolund ran 2:17:02 at the 2022 California International Marathon at age 21 to qualify for Orlando. He is a 2023 graduate of the University of Nevada and is currently a PhD student at Northern Arizona University.
  Matthew Welch, 29, of Bellingham will be competing in his second Olympic Trials. In 2020 he finished 134th (2:29:18). Originally from Duluth, MN, he is a Community Mental Health Case Manager in Bellingham. He qualified for Orlando running 2:17:17 at the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon just four months ago. At the 2017 NCAA Championship Cross Country Championships, he finished 46th to help Portland University to a second-place team finish. In 2021 he biked 11,500 miles around the United States.

The full list of Pacific Northwest entries with links to their bios can be found here.