INDIANAPOLIS -Deena Kastor has been named USA Track & Field's Athlete of the Week after winning the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon Sunday in Boston, Mass.

The American record-holder in the women's marathon, Kastor won the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's Marathon in two hours 29 minutes 35 seconds. After trailing eventual runner-up Magdalena Lewy Boulet by nearly two minutes at the half-way point, Kastor's strong surge over the second half of the race propelled her to the win. Lewy Boulet made her first Olympic Team, finishing second in a personal-best time of 2:30:19.

Elsewhere, 2004 Olympic gold medalist and two-time World Outdoor champion Jeremy Wariner and 2006 IAAF Athlete of the Year Sanya Richards each ran world-leading times in winning their respective 400 meter races at the 2008 Michael Johnson Classic, with Wariner crossing the line in 44.56 and Richards in 50.47. 2005 World Outdoor champion Bershawn Jackson won the men's 400m hurdles at the Kansas Relays in a world-leading 48.32. David Oliver, the 2008 U.S. Indoor champion, set a world-leader in winning the men's 110m hurdles in 13.08 at the International Friendship and Freedom Games while 2008 World Indoor champion Lolo Jones tied the world leader in the women's 100m hurdles, winning in 12.72 at the Alumni Gold meet in Baton Rouge, La. 2007 NCAA champion Brittney Reese of Ole Miss broke her school record in the long jump with a world-leading, personal best jump of 6.93 meters/22 feet 9 inches.