{"id":199421,"date":"2024-06-17T14:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=199421"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:15:03","slug":"mohr-olympic-track-and-field-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/17\/mohr-olympic-track-and-field-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohr qualifies for U.S. Olympic track and field trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manoa-athletics-hallee-mohr-olympic-trials.jpg\" alt=\"person throwing a discus in a large stadium\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manoa-athletics-hallee-mohr-olympic-trials.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manoa-athletics-hallee-mohr-olympic-trials-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/manoa-athletics-hallee-mohr-olympic-trials-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa discus thrower Hallee Mohr continues her incredible outdoor season after earning a spot in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>The discus is scheduled for June 24 at 2 p.m. (<abbr title=\"Hawaii standard time\">HST<\/abbr>) and will be broadcast live on <abbr>NBC<\/abbr>. Mohr is one of 24 athletes in the field. The top three finishers will qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics provided they meet the Olympic standard of 64.50m.<\/p>\n<p>Mohr recently earned All-America honors with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/10\/mohr-discus-all-american-honors\/\">11th-place finish at the <abbr title=\"National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> Championships<\/a>, also held at Hayward Field on June 8. She posted a mark of 55.46m (181-11) to become just the fourth Rainbow Wahine discus thrower to earn All-America recognition. Mohr is the first <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> athlete since Amber Kaufman in 2008 (high jump) to compete in the U.S. Olympic track and field trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/HawaiiAthletics.com\">For more on Mohr, go to HawaiiAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa discus thrower Hallee Mohr will compete at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,1585,9,550],"class_list":["post-199421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-track-and-field","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199423,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199421\/revisions\/199423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}