CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The Penn men and Princeton women lead the way at the 2024 Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field Championships as nine medals were awarded on the first day of competition.
WOMEN
Medals were awarded for five women's events as the podium filled up for the long jump, weight throw, pole vault, 3000m run, and pentathlon.
The women’s long jumpers was the first event to earn medals at the championship as Princeton got off to a strong start with two Tigers earning the gold (
Georgina Scoot) and silver (
Alexandra Kelly) medals. Scoot leaped to a mark of 6.28m on her fifth attempt to win the event.
The women’s weight throw was the next event to award medals as Harvard’s
Emilia Kolokotroni won the event on her last throw with a mark of 19.45m. Rounding out the top-three was two student-athletes from Princeton, Angela
McAuslan-Kelly and
Annika Kelly, respectively.
In the next field event, Princeton’s
Tessa Mudd took home the gold medal in stunning fashion, clearing the 4.39m mark on her last attempt to break the all-time Ivy League record.
In the only running event to medal today, Harvard’s
Maia Ramsden impressed once again, taking home the gold medal in the 3,000m run. The junior clocked a time of 9:19.76, beating out Columbia’s
Elia Ton-That and
Phoebe Anderson.
In the final event to medal on the women’s side, Brown filled up the podium in the pentathlon, claiming three of the six spots. On top,
Chiamaka Odenigbo took home the gold with 4027 points.
Women’s Standings:
1. Princeton — 52
2. Harvard — 35
3. Brown — 29
4. Columbia — 14
5. Cornell — 9
6. Penn — 7
6. Yale — 7
8. Dartmouth — 2
MEN
Men’s medals were awarded in the weight throw, pole vault, long jump, and 3000m run.
The first event to medal on the men’s side was the 3,000m run which saw Princeton’s
Nicholas Bendtsen post a meet record time of 7:54.81 to earn the gold medal.
Next up, Princeton earned another gold medal in the men’s long jump as
Greg Foster successfully defended his Ivy League crown from a season ago with a mark of 7.67m. Foster narrowly edged out Brown’s
John McNeil who posted a mark of 7.66m.
The Quakers took the top two spots on the podium in the men’s pole vault as both
Scott Toney and
James Rhoads cleared 5.36m, but it was Toney who earned the gold medal through a tiebreaker.
In the final event of the day, Harvard’s
Kenneth Ikeji proved once again to be one of the best in the nation in the weight throw, breaking the Ivy League record on three consecutive throws to take home the title for the second-straight year. Ikeji’s fifth attempt flew to a mark of 24.39m which ranks as the best in the nation.
Men’s Standings:
1. Penn — 24
2. Princeton — 22
3. Cornell — 20
4. Brown — 14
5. Columbia — 13
6. Harvard — 11
6. Yale — 11
8. Dartmouth — 9