Runner's & Triathlete's Web (RRW) Athletics: CVS Caremark Downtown 5-K Entry Lists Released

Organizers of Sunday's 18th CVS Caremark Downtown 5-K in Providence, R.I., which serves as the USA 5 km road running championships for men and women, have released their entry lists of invited athletes.

Trying for both the open and USA titles will be national steeplechase champion and 2008 Olympian Anthony Famiglietti, 2004 Olympian Dan Browne and USA indoor 3000m champion and 2008 Olympian Matt Tegenkamp. Browne finished third overall at this event last year, behind Kenyans Simon Ndirangu and Richard Kiplagat, and won the USA title.

The women's field is led by Olympic 10,000m bronze medalist and defending champion, Shalane Flanagan, who will try to win her third USA title this year (she has already won the national cross country and 10,000m crowns). Hoping to challenge Flanagan will be former Notre Dame All-American Molly Huddle, and rising stars Rebecca Donaghue and Julie Culley.

International athletes are welcome at this race, but since open prize money is only paid three-deep, international athletes must finish in the top-3 to receive prize money (American athletes can win both open and USA Championship prize money). The top international entrants are Kenyan Luke Kipkosgei on the men's side, and Kenyans Jane Wanjiku Gakunyi and Jane Murage, and Ethiopian-born Bahraini Teyba Naser on the women's side.

Overall race champions will receive $3000 in prize money while the top USA finishers will pocket $5000. Hence, an overall American winner will receive $8000.

The invitational entry lists are below:

MEN - 2 Anthony Famiglietti, Knoxville, TN 3 Dan Browne, Beaverton, OR 4 Matt Tegenkamp, Madison, WI 7 Chris Barnicle, Newtonville, MA 8 Michal Bartoszak, POL 10 Norman Bouthillier (40+), Coventry, RI 11 Sean Brosnan, Charlotte, NC 12 Ben Bruce, Eugene, OR 13 Ian Burrell, Flagstaff, AZ 14 Fernando Cabada, Boulder, CO 15 Jeffrey Caron, Chino Hills, CA 19 Matthew Daniels, Albuquerque, NM 22 Scott Samuelson, Freeport, ME (Joan's husband) 24 Robert Duncan, Plainfield, IL 25 Steve Edwards, Pittsboro, NC (Shalane's husband) 27 Andrew Fuller, Rome, GA 31 Stephen Haas, Johnson City, TN 34 Christian Hesch, Morro Bay, CA 38 David Jankowski, Rochester Hills, MI 39 Paul Jellema, Rochester Hills, MI 40 Kelele Zereu, Albuquerque, NM (ETH) 41 Luke Kipkosgei, KEN 42 Rod Koborsi, Washington, DC 43 Ryan Leary, Providence, RI 44 Steve Magness, Chino Hills, CA 49 Thomas Morgan, Blowing Rock, NC 50 Cruz Moto, Cranston, RI 52 Paul Mwangi (40+), KEN 56 Phillip Reid, San Luis Obispo, CA 57 Morgan Seybert, Ridgefield, CT 58 Devin Swann, Raleigh, NC 60 Willy Viviani, Arlington, VA 62 Ryan Woods, Boone, NC 63 Emory Mort, Ghent, NY 64 Andy Allstadt, Albany, NY 65 Chuck Terry, Albany, NY 66 Tim Caramore, East Greenbush, NY 67 Jason Ayer, Westfield, MA 68 Francis Burdett, Worcester, MA

WOMEN - 1 Shalane Flanagan, Pittsboro, NC 5 Joan Samuelson (50+), Freeport, ME 6 Ann Alyanak, Bellbrook, OH 9 Annie Bersagel, Greeley, CO 16 Melissa Cook, Denton, TX 17 Mary Cullen, Providence, RI (IRL) 18 Julie Culley, Arlington, VA 20 Rebecca Donaghue, State College, PA 21 Erin Dromgoole, Brighton, MA 23 Bridget Duffy, Oakland, CA 26 Kathy Fleming (40+), Natick, MA 28 Jane Wanjiku, KEN 30 Allison Grace, Blowing Rock, NC 32 Nicole Kulikov Hagobian, Hadley, MA 33 Stephanie Herbst-Lauck (40+), Atlanta, GA 35 Jemissa Hess, Raleigh, NC 36 Molly Huddle, Providence, RI 37 Lucinda Hull, Boulder, CO 45 Carrie Messner-Vickers, Vail, CO 46 Renee Metivier-Baillie, Flagstaff, AZ 47 Tera Moody, Boulder, CO 48 Kathryn Moore, Kittery, ME 51 Jane Murage, KEN 53 Teyba Naser, Albuquerque, NM (BRN) 54 Casey Owens, Des Moines, IA 55 Alicia Phillips, Lillington, NC 59 Carrie Tollefson, St. Paul, MN 61 Zofia Wiecorkorska (45+), Stratford, CT (POL) 79 Jennifer Donovan, Brighton, MA 83 Jennifer Adams Gansevoort NY 84 Murphee Hayes, Marathon, NY 85 Amanda Laytham, Oneonta, NY 86 Kaitlin O'Sullivan, Syracuse, NY 87 Michelle Rafferty, Hoboken, NJ 88 Heidi Hullinger, New York, NY 89 Gretchen Grindle Hurlbutt, New York, NY