PHOTO: Kelly Calway of Manitou Springs qualified for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials with her fifth-place finish in Sunday's California International Marathon. She won the Susan G. Kohmen Race for the Cure (above) in September in the Garden of the Gods.

Army Cpt. Kelly Calway of Manitou Springs placed fifth in the California International Marathon on Sunday in Sacramento, California.
Calway, 26, posted a time of 2:42:19 and qualified to run in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, Jan. 14, 2012 in Houston.

Calway has had a productive fall season. She placed second last month in the Army Ten-Miler, a prestigious race that included a field of 30,000 runners. Read Calway's Army Ten-Miler interview here.

She had set a goal of qualifying for the trials at the California Marathon.

Justin Ricks (left) of Pueblo West, a Wasson High School graduate, finished 14th in 2:22:43, missing the men's Olympic trials qualifying time of 2:19. He still has a year to hit the qualifying time.

Only two American men, Coloradoans Justin Young and Tyler McCandless, ran under the men's Olympic qualifying time. Young, of Superior, placed fifth overall with a time of 2:14:07, while Boulder's McCandless finished 6th in 2:17:22.



Other area runners and their places and times include:
41. Troy Harrison, Colorado Springs, 2:34:10
314. Nate Pennington, Colorado Springs, 3:01:50
370. Kenneth Wright, Colorado Springs, 3:04:55
975. Ron Nelson, Colorado Springs, 3:29:57
3212. Diane Brown, Colorado Springs, 4:22
3761. Corrina Goff-Hamann, Colorado Springs, 4:34
5100. Tony Matthews, Colorado Springs, 5:19:15
5300. Karen Rosenstrauch, Monument, 5:28:28