Nebraska Athletics: Trio of Huskers win Big Ten Track & Field Awards
The Nebraska Track and Field team won multiple postseason awards following their performance at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships last week.
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The Nebraska Track and Field team won multiple postseason awards following their performance at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships last week.
Nebraska track and field closed the regular season on Saturday at the Ward Haylett Invitational, hosted by Kansas State. NU earned 15 event titles on the day at RV Christian Track in Manhattan, Kan.
Story Links Till Steinforth captured the decathlon title on Friday at the Jim Click Shootout in Tucson, Ariz., behind six event wins and nine personal-best performances. After winning three decathlon events on Thursday, Steinforth opened Friday with a decathlon 110m hurdles victory with a 14.52. Steinforth pitched in another personal-best performance in the pole
Commonwealth Games medallist high jumper Tejaswin Shankar bagged a decathlon silver and came close to breaking the national record at the Jim Click Shootout competition in Arizona, USA.Tejaswin, who won the high jump bronze in the 2022 CWG in Birmingham, competed in the gruelling 10-event decathlon and scored a cumulative 7,648 points -- 10 less than Bharatinder Singhs national record of 7,658 set in 2011.The competition was held at the University of Arizonas Tucson campus and is recognised by United States Track and Field USTAF.
Tejaswin Shankar, India current national record holder in men high jump, achieved a personal best of 7,648 points to finish second in a decathlon competitio