Tony Sandoval
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"Anthony "Tony" B. Sandoval" is a former world class marathon runner, most noted for winning the 1980 U.S. Olympic Marathon trials, in the year the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics. Sandoval's 2:10:19 performance in Buffalo, New York on May 24, 1980 was a US Olympic Trials record.

Image: Sandoval.jpg//thumb/Sandoval finishing the IAAF Citizen Golden Marathon, in Athens, Greece in March 1982In his first attempt to make the Olympic team "Sandoval took a crack at the '1976 Summer Olympics/76 Olympic Marathon Trial. He'd run a 2:19 debut in Phoenix, Arizona/Phoenix the previous December. In the trial, held in Eugene, Oregon/Eugene, Oregon, Sandoval ran well but it was his first near-miss: fourth-place [with the top three making the team] in 2:14:58."

In the late 1970s Sandoval worked towards becoming a medical doctor and competed in marathons on unusually light training. Following the 1976 trials he trained by running 35 miles per week and ran "a 2:14:37 for second place at the Nike-Oregon Track Club Marathon in Eugene in 1978. After that, he ran 2:15:23 for 15th place in the Boston Marathon in 1979."

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I think the men did a better job of staying together. We certainly have to work on our spacing at this time.

Our relays will be very good. We expect our 4 x 4 to qualify for finals. The sprint medley and mile relays should be in contention for a medal.

On both sides, people competed very, very hard. The men obviously did a great job. The women did a great job too-a couple events were very close and could've gone either way. We've come not to expect anything when it comes to the Big Meet.

The main objective was to see what we could do in terms of executing the team strategy. We got separated in the women's side early and we had some difficulty keeping it together in the early part of the race.

We did a lot better at Davis, but Stanford has a tougher start, plus a bigger field.