Decano Cronin<\/a> hit a European Championships “A” Standard in the 800 meters at the Music City Distance Carnival on Saturday night (June 2). He ran a time of 1:46.67, going 0.7 seconds better than his quickest effort at Fort Hays State over the last two years.<\/p>\nCronin’s best effort at Fort Hays State happened the previous week at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships, where he ran a time of 1:47.37 to set a new FHSU record. It was the final collegiate race of his career, finishing as a three-time All-American for the Tigers in the 800 meters. He was the 2017 national champion in the event for the outdoor season, and then finished as national runner-up in both the indoor and outdoor seasons this year.<\/p>\n
The European Championships entry standard is 1:47.60 in the 800 meters. The “A” Standard in Ireland is 1:47.10 and the “B” standard is the standard for the European Championships. Currently, no other athlete from Ireland has reached the A or B standard. Cronin has to place in the top three at the Irish Championships to compete at the European Championships.<\/p>\n
Cronin’s time ranks him 73rd<\/sup> on the world performance list and 18th<\/sup> on the European performance list. He now ranks first in Ireland by 1.19 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By FHSU Sports Information ASHVILLE, Tenn. – In his first race beyond his collegiate competition days at Fort Hays State, Decano Cronin hit a European… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,4542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-track-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cronin.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38645,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38643\/revisions\/38645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}