Trafton and Johnson Win in San Luis Obispo, by Karen Locke, Note by Larry Eder

The Olympic champion ( she is featured in Spring American Track & Field 2009), Stephanie Brown Trafton, won at Cal Poly Invitaitonal yesterday. Chelsea Johnson, homegrown from Atascadero, CA, a graduate of UCLA and now jumping for Nike, won and has the US leading outdoor vault mark.
San Luis Obispo, CA–Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Trafton didn’t disappoint spectators at the Cal Poly Invitational on Saturday, winning the discus with a best of 199 feet, 5 1/4 inches.
The Cal Poly graduate spent the afternoon chatting with fans and local media, signing autographs and enjoying a warm Central Coast welcome on the track. Trafton, a gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Games, drew plenty of oh’s and ah’s from the crowd with her towering tosses and closed the competition, as expected, with the winning mark.
Atascadero product Chelsea Johnson, competing for Nike, won the woman’s pole vault with 4.52 meters, or 14 feet, 10 inches, clearance and U.S. leading mark.

Special thanks to Karen Locke, agent, manager, jazz fan.
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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