Top-ranked Hansen sustains injury, pulls out of 1A final

FORT DODGE – Pulling a tendon in his foot early in the state race at Fort Dodge, West Fork senior Jake Hansen, who was the top-ranked runner in Class 1A all season long, was forced to exit the field.
The injury incurred early, according to Hansen, about 1K into the 5K race on Saturday, Oct. 29.
“I was rounding a corner and hit a hard dip in the ground but as I kept running, the tendon around the inside of my foot up to my heel ached and when I could barely make my way up the hills on the back side, I pulled out,” Hansen said. “The trainers said it was probably a pulled tendon, must have twisted wrong on the dip.”
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