Gainesville, Florida was the site of the World Team Trials in the Half Marathon (and U20 10 km). All of the best Race Walkers in the US toed the line to earn a spot on Team USA going to Brazil. Competing for the Raleigh Walkers were Jordan Crawford and Bricyn Healey, both veteran members of international competition.
Conditions were similar to what is expected in the World Team Championships, so this was a perfect dress rehearsal.
Jordan walked in the chase pack with Jason Cherng and Emmanuel Corvera for most of the race and broke away from Cherng with 2 laps to go, making a decisive move to finish 2nd in 1:39:49 behind Nick Christie 1:34:21.
Bricyn started strong, but experienced some trouble around the halfway point and struggled through to an 8th place finish in the men’s race, with a time of 2:01:11. Both Crawford and Healey have secured positions on Team USA for the World Race Walk Team Championships in Brazil, it’s just a matter of which event they choose to compete in.
Full race results can be found here: 2026 USATF Half-Marathon Race Walking World Team Trials and Invitational