8/24/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
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LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - UNLV track & field alumna Amanda Bingson will represent the United States and compete in the hammer throw qualification rounds Tuesday evening (6:30 or 7:55 pm PT) at the 15th IAAF World Championships in Beijing at the Bird's Nest (Beijing Olympic Stadium). The event's finale is scheduled for Thursday morning (4:00 am PT).
Bingson, who competed for the Scarlet & Gray from 2009-12, punched her ticket to China in June when she finished third overall in the hammer throw at the 2015 USATF Outdoor Championships, which were held at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field.
The Las Vegas native and Silverado High School graduate has represented Team USA internationally previously at the 2012 London Olympics, 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow (2013) and 2014 IAAF Continental Cup (Marrakech, Morocco).
Bingson won three straight Mountain West titles in the hammer throw from 2010-12 before she became a regular on Team USA's roster beginning with a second-place finish at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. She followed that performance with back-to-back victories at the 2013 and '14 USATF Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa and Sacramento, Calif., respectively.
She not only broke stadium records en route to both of her first-place efforts, but she also rewrote the American record book in '13 with a mark of 248-5 (74.92m).
Amber Campbell, a three-time American hammer throw champion (2010, '12 and '15), and Deanna Price round out the U.S.'s trio of hammer throwers. In all, Team USA will have 132 athletes competing in Beijing at the international meet that began Aug. 22 and runs through Sunday, Aug. 30.
