Tom Jones Results
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The men's and women's track and field teams completed the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational on Saturday (April 18). Seven more athletes today recorded top-10 program marks in their events.
Mia Morello recorded the highest mark of the day as she improved the program's second-best pole vault to 4.50m (14-9) in her second-place finish. Her mark currently sits as the fifth highest in the nation.
On the track, Grace Kombetto clocked the school's third-fastest 800m in her 10th-place finish and Jackson Gilbert ran the program's fourth-fastest 400m (45.47) in his eight-place finish. His time is now the 12th-fastest in the country.
A pair of triple jumpers placed their name in the program record books this afternoon in Katharina Graman and Romi Tamir. Graman leapt the school's fourth-best mark in her sixth-place finish, 13.27m (43-6 1/2), and Tamir recorded the program's sixth-best jump in her eighth-place finish, 13.04m (42-9 1/2).
Reece Ihenacho improved his program's ninth-best discus mark to 55.65m (182-7) in his third-place finish. Sophia Beckmon sprinted to the school's ninth-fastest 100m (11.45) in her second-place finish.
UP NEXT
The Illini track and field teams are off next week before they return to action at home for the Gary Wieneke Memorial on Friday-Saturday (May 1-2) in Demirjian Park.
NOTES
- Rose Yeboah won the high jump, 1.83m (6-0)
- Mia Morello placed second in the pole vault on the school's second-best clearance, 4.50m (14-9)
- Katharina Graman placed sixth in the triple jump on the program's fourth-best jump, 13.27m (43-6 1/2)
- Romi Tamir placed eighth on the school's sixth-best jump, 13.04m (42-9 1/2)
- Grace Kombetto placed 10th in the 800m on the program's third-fastest time (2:02.94)
- Jackson Gilbert placed eighth in the 400m on the school's fourth-fastest time (45.47)
- Reece Ihenacho placed third in the discus on the program's eighth-best throw, 55.65m (182-7)
- Sophia Beckmon placed second in the 100m on the school's ninth-fastest time (11.45)
- Viktor Morozov placed third in the triple jump, 16.28m (53-5)
- Alex Sohn placed third in the shot put, 17.33m (56-10 1/4)
- Phethisang Makhethe placed fifth in the hammer throw, 66.34m (217-8)
- Tadeas Placek placed 44th in the 400m (48.36)
