Virginia’s Claudio Romero Wins NCAA Discus National Title

On the ultimate evening of males’s competitors on the 2022 NCAA Observe & Discipline Championships, UVA junior Claudio Romero made certain the Cavaliers weren’t going house empty-handed as he received the NCAA Discus Championship on Friday evening at Hayward Discipline. 

Romero had battled with California’s Mykolas Alekna as the highest two discus throwers within the nation for your complete spring, however that they had by no means confronted one another in particular person till the NCAA Championships. The last word showdown lived as much as the billing, as Romero and Alekna went back-and-forth all through the occasion. 

It was one of many earlier throws of the evening from Romero that ended up carrying the successful distance. Romero’s second try of the day went 66.17 meters (217 ft and one inch), a distance neither Romero nor Alekna (nor the remainder of the sphere) might match within the occasion. 

In the end, Romero’s mark of 66.17 meters edged Alekna’s greatest by simply two centimeters (66.15m) and Romero took house the gold. 

Claudio Romero turns into simply the second Cavalier to ever win the NCAA Discus title, becoming a member of Philip Mihaljevic, who received gold in 2017. Romero can be simply the fourth UVA athlete in historical past to earn First-Crew All-American honors within the discus occasion in a number of seasons. 

Two different UVA athletes competed on Friday’s ultimate day of males’s occasions. Junior Jacob Lemmon additionally competed within the discus, ending fifteenth with a mark of 56.77 meters and incomes All-American honors for the second-straight season. Senior Owayne Owens completed nineteenth within the males’s triple soar with a leap of 15.80 meters. 

Virginia’s males’s workforce completed the NCAA Championships 14th general on the workforce leaderboard with 18 factors, this system’s greatest end since 2017 and third-best all-time. 

“Congratulations to our throwers on their excellent performances and to Claudio for capturing an NCAA Championship,” stated UVA Director of Observe & Discipline Vin Lananna. “We’re laying the muse to construct a particular program on the College of Virginia, and we are going to hold chipping away at it step-by-step.”

Yet another athlete is about to compete within the 2022 Observe & Discipline Championships because the competitors concludes with the ultimate girls’s occasions on Saturday. Ashley Anumba will compete within the girls’s discus at 5:05pm. 

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