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? Kansas Starts Strong on Day One of Big 12 Championship
LUBBOCK, Texas – The Kansas males’s and ladies’s observe and subject groups acquired off to a robust begin on day one of many Large 12 Out of doors Championship in Lubbock, Texas on Friday, with three Jayhawks making the rostrum together with a number of private bests being set.
Friday’s motion started with the boys’s decathlon and ladies’s heptathlon competitors, wherein freshman Alexander Jung positioned himself in podium competition after day one. Friday additionally marked the finals for a number of subject occasions, which was highlighted by sophomore Oleg Klykov inserting fourth within the males’s hammer throw.
Within the decathlon lengthy bounce, each Jung and senior Grant Downes set private bests with Jung leaping 7.00m (22-11.75 ft.) to put fifth and Downes leaping 6.94m (22-9.25 ft.) to put eighth. Within the subsequent occasion, Jung positioned fourth within the decathlon shot put by throwing 13.17m (43-2.5 ft.). Jung would end the day positioned in seventh place with 3,852 factors, adopted by Downes in 10th with 3,623 factors and Clay Eckert in 15th with 3,352 factors.
Whereas the decathlon and heptathlon competitions had been underway, the Jayhawks had been in motion within the males’s hammer throw, the place Klykov turned the No. 4 performer in KU outside historical past with a throw of 64.90m (212-11 ft.), which positioned him fourth total. Kansas’ Patrick Larrison additionally had a giant day within the hammer throw ring, setting a private greatest 59.32m (194-7 ft.) to put seventh total.
In a while within the afternoon, Kansas’ Alyse Moore and Lexy Farrington competed within the girls’s javelin throw last, the place Moore positioned eighth total with a throw of 42.69m (140-0 ft.), and Farrington positioned ninth with a throw of 40.54m (133-0 ft.).
Within the girls’s heptathlon competitors, freshman Lauren Heck competed in her first look on the Large 12 Out of doors Championship, the place she presently stands in 11th with 2,866.
Kansas might be again in motion for day two of the Large 12 Out of doors Championship, which begins at 11 a.m. CT.