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THE RIVALRY CONTINUES 🇯🇲🇺🇸
Kingston College (Jamaica) takes the win in the Penn Relays HS 4x400m championship in 3:11.86, with Excelsior HS (Jamaica) right behind in 3:12.94.
But it’s Bullis HS phenom Quincy Wilson who clocks the fastest split of the day to anchor his team to
Patience pays 💸
Under Armour Baltimore’s Festus Lagat moves from 6th to 1st in the final 400m of the Penn Relays men’s 800m, clocking a 1:46.76 victory with near-even splits of 53.3-53.4.
UPSET ALERT 🙃
Campbell alum Dorcus Ewoi flips the script on a stacked Penn Relays 800m field to take the win in 2:02.49.
Ajee' Wilson moves up well from 7th to 2nd in the final 400m but it wasn’t enough to overtake Ewoi as she clocks a 2:02.88 season opener in her specialty event.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? 📣
Auhmad Robinson celebrates all the way home in the Penn Relays 4x400m, splitting 44.79 on anchor for a 3:01.52 finish to pick up a championship wheel for the Texas A&M Track & Field/Cross Country trophy shelf.
Taking HS sprints higher and higher 📈
The Jamaican squad from Excelsior takes the Penn Relays high school 4x100m title in 40.45, leading a 1-2-3 sweep of Jamaican schools in the championship section. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
50 years of history are no match for the Goose 🏆
Yared Nuguse takes down the 1974 Penn Relays record in the mile with a 3:51.06 victory over teammate Olli Hoare (3:51.28), with both athletes and Eric Holt (3:51.46) also taking down the 45-year-old Franklin Field record.
Talk about DEPTH 🤯
Georgetown Track & Field / XC may only have finished third in the Penn Relays 4xmile, but Georgetown became the first and so far only team in NCAA history to have four runners split sub-4 minutes in the same race.
3:59.61 ➕ 3:59.89 ➕ 3:58.82 ➕ 3:54.56 🟰 15:52.56
ANOTHA ONE 😮💨
Villanova Track & XC picks up its second wheel in two days (and 97th❗️overall) with a win in the Penn Relays 4xmile.
Liam Murphy’s 3:54.32 anchor leg clinched the win over Virginia Track & Field and Cross Country with a 15:51.91 NCAA record. Villanova, UVA, and Georgetown Track & Field / XC become the first college
2️⃣ for 2️⃣‼️
It was a good trip to China for American Daniel Roberts as he picks up his 2nd straight Wanda Diamond League win with a 13.12 victory in the 110m hurdles.
Japan’s Shansuke Izumiya takes 2nd in 13.23 & Olympic champ Hansle Parchment gets a season’s best 13.26 for 3rd.
Experience pays off 💰
Olympic champ Selemon Barega outkicks his fellow Ethiopian, 17-year-old Biniam Mehary, to take the win in the #ShanghaiDL 5000m in his outdoor season debut.
Barega’s 12:55.68 is the fastest outdoor 5000m of the year so far.