TERESA VAILL
Event: Race Walk
Height: 5-5
Weight: 108
PR: 10 km walk - 45:16 (1992); 20 km walk - 1:33:23 (2001)
Born: November 20, 1962 in Torrington, Conn.
Current Residence: Gainesville, Fla.
High School: Seymour Smith Senior (Pine Plains, NY) HS '81
Coach: Self
Agent: Self
Club: Unattached

Career Highlights: 3-time USA Outdoor champion (’04, ’05, ’07); 2004 Olympian; 7-time USA Indoor champions (’84-’86, ’89-’91, ’08); 3-time U.S. women’s 10 km RW champion

Vaill broke the American record for the 20 km walk on the track at the 2005 USA Championships with her time of 1:33:28...She was the only American woman to make the Olympic team in the 20 km race walk after she won the 2004 Olympic Trials...With more than 20 years as an elite athlete, Vaill has been ranked nationally as a women’s race walker in the U.S. since 1986...She won her first national title indoors in 1984…At age 41, she was the oldest female track & field Olympian in U.S. history…she is a two-time competitor at IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships, finishing 22nd in the 10km race walk in both 1993 and 1995.

2007: USA Outdoor champion (1:37:28)...1st at USA Pan Am Trials (1:35:44)...2nd at USA Race Walk Championships (1:34.42)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:34.42.
2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (1:39:24.07)...2nd at Hauppage (1:35:41)...32nd at IAAF World Race Walking Cup (1:35:46)...ranked # 2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:35:41.
2005: USA Outdoor champion (1:33:28AR)...ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN.
2004: Olympic Trials 20km race walk champion (1:35:57)...43rd at the Olympic Games (1:38:47)...1st at Kenosha (1:34:32)...2nd at Overland Park (1:36:49)...1st at Hauppage (1:37:13)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:34:32.
2003: 3rd at USA Outdoors (1:36:38.38)...2nd at USA 10 km RW championships (49:00)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:36:38.38.
2002: 2nd at USA Outdoors (1:34:53)...dq at World Cup1st at Manassas (1:37.56)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:34:53
2001: Dq at USA Outdoors...ranked #6 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:33.23.
2000: Dnf at U.S. Olympic Trials...ranked #10 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:35:45
1999: Dnf at USA Outdoors...ranked #9 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 1:37:38
1998: 2nd at 20 km walk, dnf 10 km walk at USA Outdoors...ranked #10 in the U.S. at 10 km by T&FN...bests of 48:04 & 1:36:26
1997: Did not compete
1996: 6th at U.S. Olympic Trials...ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 45:21
1995: 1st at USA Outdoors...22nd at World Outdoor Championships...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 45:01.
1994: 1st at USA Outdoors...dnf Olympic Festival...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 45:02
1993: 2nd at USA Outdoors...22nd at World Championships...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 45:27.
1992: Dnf at U.S. Olympic Trials...ranked #8 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 45:16
1991: 8th at TAC...ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 45:51
1990: 2nd at TACr...anked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 46:21
1989: 2nd at TAC...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 46:45
1988: 2nd at TAC...2nd at Olympic Trials...ranked 3rd in U.S. by T&FN...best of 47:11
1987: 4th at TAC...5th at Olympic Festival...ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 46:50
1986: 2nd at TAC...1st at Olympic Festival...ranked #1 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 46:47
1985: 2nd at TAC...3rd at Olympic Festival...best of 49:26.
1984: Dq at TAC...2nd at U.S. Olympic Trials...best of 47:49
1983: Best of 51:59

2/12/08