Bender Breaks Program, Meet, Stadium Discus Records to Wrap Up Jesse Owens Classic
4/22/2023 8:25:39 PM | Men's Track & Field
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State track and field team wrapped up its annual Jesse Owens Classic on Saturday at Jesse Owens Stadium.
Faith Bender broke the program, meet and stadium records to win the women’s discus with a best throw of 61.13m / 200’6.7”.
Jaimie Robinson picked up the Buckeyes’ first win of the day with a best mark of 12.97m / 42”6.75” in the women’s triple jump. The women’s 4×100 relay squad of Yanique Dayle, Nya Bussey, Alyssa Marsh and Leah Bertrand earned the victory (44.21). Hayden Tobias captured the first win for the Buckeye men with a best mark of 19.24m / 63’1.5” in the shot put. Alex Kenish won the men’s 800m with a time of 1:49.45. The Buckeye women wrapped up the meet with a win in the 4x400m relay (3:45.39) with Bryannia Murphy, Columba Effiong, Kena Shannon and Fatouma Conde on the winning squad.
JESSE OWENS CLASSIC
- 100m: The Buckeye women swept the podium with Dayle winning the event (11.37), Bussey as the runner-up (11.42) and Bertrand in third (11.44). Dayle (11.59), Bussey (11.74) and Bertrand (11.74) had the three-fastest times in the prelims, each winning their heat. On the men’s side, Trey Gardette led the Buckeyes in the prelims (10.72) and finished just outside the top-10.
- 4x100m relay: On the men’s side, Trey Gardette, Shaun Miller Jr., Oscar Smith and Adrian Curry finished third (41.80).
- Triple jump: Both Buckeye women finished in the top-four as Atinuke Shittu’s best mark of 11.97m / 39’3.25” was good for fourth-overall in addition to J. Robinson’s win.
- Shot put: Bender (15.25m / 50’0.5”) and Lacey Stringer (15.18m / 49’9.75”) finished third and fourth, respectively, for the women. All four Buckeye men finished in the top-seven. Following Tobias, Carlos Aviles was the runner-up (18.65m / 61’2.25”), while Josh Miller was sixth (17.55m / 57’7”) and Adam Riedinger was seventh with a PR of 17.55m / 57’7”.
- Pole vault: On the men’s side, Luke Bendick was the runner-up (5.27m / 17’3.5”) and Daniel Drellishak finished in a tie for seventh (4.92m / 16’1.75”). Abbey Kuhn finished third in the women’s competition by clearing 4.08m / 13’4.5” – the same height as the winner.
- High jump: Faith Hunter tied her best clearance of the season (1.60m / 5’3”) to finish in a tie for third. On the men’s side, Reign Winston tied for fourth (1.99m / 6’6.25”) and Sean Kaminski was ninth (1.94m / 6’4.25”).
- 400m: All three of the Buckeye men finished in the top-eight with Armani Modeste leading the way in the runner-up position (47.52). Leo Uusimaki was fifth (48.76) and Shohaan Singh was eighth (49.14).
- 3000m steeplechase: Akemi Von Scherr finished fourth (11:00.84).
- 110m hurdles: In the finals, Oscar Smith finished fifth (14.45). In the prelims, Smith won his heat (14.04), while Leo Uusimaki finished sixth (14.44).
- Discus: Aviles led the Buckeye men, finishing fourth overall (54.56m / 179’0”), while Riedinger had a PR of 45.70m / 149’11”.
THOUGHTS ON THE MEET
Director Rosalind Joseph: “The first Jesse Owens Classic at the helm was a lot of fun. It was nice to be at home and give our student-athletes a chance to compete in front of their family, friends and OSU fans. This weekend at home gave us a chance to work on the little things and potential ‘off’ events and keep priming for championship season. I was really happy to see so many alumni from numerous decades come to our alumni event Friday night and also support at the meet all weekend.”
UP NEXT
The Buckeyes travel to the Penn Relays next week, competing Thursday through Saturday.
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