Due to a lack of sponsorship, the women's hurdles will be taking a break in 2017.  We hope to find additional sponsorship dollars to return the event to the 2018 Camel City Elite itinerary.

2016

2016 Women's Camel City Hurdles Race Video

This was the first year of the women’s hurdles as a prize-money event at Camel City Elite.  Last year, Sharika Nelvis set quite a standard despite there being no prize money for the race.  Despite the U.S. having many of the top hurdlers in the world, our early attempts at recruiting athletes for this race proved to be difficult.  It wasn’t until the last two weeks or so before the race that the field finally came together. 

And what a field it was!  It had World Champs, American record holders, world record holders and one of the most popular track and field athletes in the world.

The preliminary rounds started off well, with Lolo Jones winning her heat handily.  In heat two, the reigning World Indoor champ Nia Ali would win somewhat easily.  Then, in the third heat, Brianna Rollins would win her heat handily over one of the best HS hurdlers in the country, Anna Cockrell.  Finally, heat four would be won by Kristi Castlin with Brianne Theisen-Eaton finishing in second and advancing to the final.  Unfortunately, Theisen-Eaton would elect to skip the finals after high jumping on Friday and throwing the shot on Saturday morning.

photo by Jeff Sides 

In the finals, it was all Rollins, as the American record holder in the 100m hurdles would beat Nia Ali by 0.08 and tie Sharika Nelvis’ facility record of 7.95.

2015

Women's 60m Hurdle Finals

The women's 60m Hurdles was technically not an official "Camel City Event in 2015, but that didn't stop former NCAA hurdles champion Sharika Nelvis from coming in and blowing away our facility record.  Ms. Nelvis came in and cruised to 8.14 in the Friday qualifying round before following that up with an 8.22 in Saturday's prelims.  On Saturday afternoon, though, the gloves came off and Sharika blew away the competition by running a new facility record of 7.95, breaking the old one of 8.08 set by Vanneisha Ivy.  She also won by .21 of a second.  Although there was no prize money available, Sharika did walk away with $500 for breaking the facility record.

2015 Results