Day 1 Results

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Harvard and Cornell end the first day of the 2020 Heptagonal Ivy League Heptagonal Track and Field Championships on top of the leaderboard with several teams within striking distance at Barton Hall on Cornell’s campus.  
 
On the men’s side, the Crimson have 25 points through four events score, with Penn (24) and Princeton (24) in close proximity. Cornell paces the women’s leaderboard through five events with 37 points followed by Princeton with 36 points, Harvard with 21 and reigning Ivy League champion Penn with 17.
 
In the 3,000m race, Harvard’s Kieran Tuntivate claimed his second straight Ivy League title after clocking an 8:28.90 in the event. Tuntivate, the 2019 Male Most Outstanding Track Performer a season ago, broke the Harvard men’s mile all-time record earlier this month, crossing the finish line at 3:57.36. his time currently ranks fifth in the NCAA. Harvard’s Will Battershill wasn’t far behind, crossing the time in 8:29.16 to take second place. Harvard tallied 18 total points in the race.
 
2-3-4 were a tight race, crossing the line in a span of .20 seconds. Princeton’s Ed Trippas finished third, crossing in 8:29.59, followed by Penn’s William Daly (8:29.65) and Princeton’s Camren Fischer (8:29.79).
 
In the field events, two freshmen - Cornell’s Smith Charles and Penn’s Caleb Johnson claimed their first-ever Ivy League Heptagonal Crowns. Charles placed first in the long jump, with a personal best jump of 7.32m, while Johnson cleared 5.25m in the pole vault, the fourth-best jump in program history.
 
Columbia’s Jack Pihlkar set a new Columbia record with a toss of 19.62m in the weight throw to earn his first-ever Ivy League title.
 
On the women’s side, Kayley DeLay claimed the 3,000m title with a time of 9:29.74, passing Cornell’s Gabrielle Orie who finished second in 9:33.02. Princeton’s Sophie Cantine registered a time of 9:33.51, while Harvard’s Brooke Starn and Gillian Meeks rank 9:40.37 ad 9:41.83 to round out the top-five.
 
With a throw of 21.76m (71-4.75), Mayyi Mahama shatters the League record and throws the 15^th-best mark in NCAA Track and Field this season to capture the weight throw title.
 
In the long jump, Brown junior Ieoma Uche registered 10 points with a jump of 6.25m to claim first place. Cornell sophomore Beatrice Juskeviciute scored 4,073 total points. Juskeviciute shattered her season best record of 3395 and was just 20 points shy of the meet record and set in 2017. Cornell’s Claire Kao set a program record in the pole vault. Kao cleared 4.10m to claim the Ivy League title.