Sharp, Login Win USA 40K Race Walk Titles

September 16, 2008 American Track & Field -- Ray Sharp and Solomiya Login won the respective men's and women's national titles Sunday at the 70th annual USA Track & Field 40 Kilometer Race Walk Championships in Ocean Township, NJ.
Sharp (Atlantics Mines, MI.) won his third consecutive U.S. 40 km men's title on a steamy 90-degree, high humidity day by covering the two-kilometer loop course 20 times in 3:58:52. Top placers in the men's division were Connecticut's Theron Kessinger (2nd - 4:03:55), Michigan's Leon Jasionowski (3rd - 4:17:30) and Indiana's Max Walker (4th - 4:29:37).