2025-26 Men's Track & Field Roster
Jonathan Kapitolnik
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Ganei Tikva, Israel
- Major:
- Undecided
 2026 Big Ten Outdoor High Jump Champion |
 1x First-Team All-Big Ten |
2026
Indoor
- Did not compete
Outdoor
- Big Ten Champion (High Jump)
- NCAA Championships qualifier (High Jump)
- First-Team All-Big Ten (High Jump)
- Became a Big Ten Champion in the high jump on the school's third-best clearance 2.21m (7-3)
- First Illini man on the Big Ten high jump podium in five years (Jonathan Wells, 2021)
- Program's seventh individual to win high jump gold and he collects the program's eighth event title
- Earned second place in the high jump at Tom Jones Memorial 2.15m (7-0 1/2)
- Won the Gary Wieneke Memorial in the high jump 2.15m (7-0 1/2)
- Placed fourth in the high jump 2.20m (7-2 1/2) at NCAA West First Rounds to punch his ticket to his first NCAA Outdoor Championships
Before Illinois
- 2025 World Athletics Championships finalist
- 2021 World U20 Championships gold medalist
- 2021 European U20 Championships gold medalist
- 6x Israeli National champion
- Holds a personal best of 2.31m (7-6 3/4)
Personal
Born November 25, 2002... Son of Erez and Yana Kapitolnik.
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