The Bears' 4x100-meter relay team breaks a 49-year-old program record but falls short of reaching the final
Hammer thrower Rowan Hamilton became Cal’s first NCAA track and field men’s champion in 13 years and the Bears’ 4x100-meter relay team eclipsed a 49-year-old school record on the first day of the collegiate nationals at Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday.
He is the first Cal athlete to win a men’s individual title at the NCAA meet since Mike Morrison captured the decathlon in 2011. Cal hadn’t won the men’s hammer since John Merchant in 1922 — 102 years ago. The current Bears team finished sixth in its heat, 13th overall, and will not advance to Friday’s final. But this group, which entered with a best of 39.28, was the first Cal 4x100 team to reach the NCAA meet since 1977.
Hamilton, a native of Chillicott, BC and a three-time NAIA national champ at UBC, needed his big third-round throw to overtake defending champion Kenneth Ikeji, a Harvard junior, who had just posted a mark of 253-0 . Ekeji finished second.
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