Arkansas
Arkansas’ Wilson sets records in Florida
It was a record-setting weekend for the College of Arkansas ladies’s and males’s monitor and subject groups.
Arkansas sophomore Britton Wilson ran a collegiate outside report 49.51 seconds and received the 400 meters Saturday on the Tom Jones Memorial meet in Gainesville, Fla.
Wilson broke the earlier mark of 49.57 ran by Texas A&M’s Athing Mu on the 2021 NCAA Championships.
Wilson, who additionally set the indoor American report of 49.48 within the 400 the season, ran a world-leading time within the 400-meter hurdles of 52.23 in profitable the occasion on Friday evening in Gainesville.
Texas’ Rhasidat Adeleke completed second to Wilson in Saturday’s 400, working 49.90, whereas Razorbacks sophomore Rosey Effiong was third in an outside career-best 50.93 that ranks No. 4 on the UA’s all-time record.
In males’s competitors on the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., Arkansas senior Roje Stona took second in Saturday’s discus with a throw of 218 ft, 7 inches that set a UA report and ranks No. 5 on the all-time collegiate record.
Stona and Arkansas senior Ralford Mullings, who took fourth with a greatest mark of 206-0, each broke the earlier UA report of 205-4 set by Scott Lofquist in 1982.
Collegiate record-holder Mykolas Alekna of California received the discus with a throw of 224-3.
Arkansas senior Jordan West took third within the shot-put with a toss of 66-0 1/4.
The Razorbacks’ ladies’s 1,600 relay of sophomores Aaliyah Pyatt, Joanne Reid, junior Nickisha Pryce and Effiong completed second in Gainesville in 3:26.60. Ohio State received in 3:26.27.
In males’s competitors in Lengthy Seaside, Calif., Arkansas sophomore Wayne Pinnock completed as the highest collegian with a leap of 26-3 1/2 Jacob Fincham-Dukes received with a wind-aided mark of 27-0 3/4.
Razorbacks senior Carey McLeod took third (26-2 1/4) and senior Ryan Brown fifth (25-2 1/2).
On Friday evening, Arkansas sophomore Kasen O’Riley received the excessive leap (7-0 1/2) and senior James Benson received the 200 (20.94).