“I wasn’t really that shocked by my time, because I’ve been putting the pedal to the metal in my training,” D’Amato told. “But it didn’t hit me immediately that I had run under the Olympic standard.” For women, the 2020 Olympic standard for the 5,000 meters is 15:10.
In July, she returned to the track to win the 10,000 meters in 32:33 at a COVID-adjusted meet in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she set a personal best., another career best performance. Sixteen days later, D’Amato won the Sugar Run 5K Classic in 15:08 against Olympian Aisha Praught Leer in Memphis, Tennessee.A four-time All-American and 11-time Patriot League individual champion, D’Amato graduated in 2006 and started training as an elite runner under Scott Raczko.
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