DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012
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RELAYS
Athletes from all over excel in varying areas
MAX GOODWIN
mgoodwin@kansan.com
In the second day of the Kansas Relays, collegiate and professional athletes completed the women's heptathlon and men's decathlon. Only one of the two Jayhawks finished the heptathlon, as Lindsey Vollmer scratched from the 800-meter race, which was the final event of the competition.
The winner, with 5460 total points, was unattached competitor Liz Rohrig. Kansas sophomore Amanda Caines finished in seventh place with 4063 points in her first collegiate heptathlon. She set
a personal record in several of the events during the two-day competition.
The University of Nebraska took first and second place in the decathlon, as Bjorn Barrefors won with 6271 total points. Last year's Kansas Relays decathlon winner Teran Walford took second place and finished more than 500 points behind Barrefors.
"It's fantastic, great team effort really," Barrefors said of Nebraska taking the top two spots.
Of the ten events, Barrefors believed he performed best in the discus throw.
"In the discus I almost got a
personal record," he said after the decathlon concluded.
Walford said he was happy he and Barrefors were able to place first and second in most of the events. He was not surprised that Barrefors won the decathlon and finished ahead of him, because he has seen how good Barrefors is in practice.
"I don't do very many multievents," Barrefors said. "This is my first one this year."
After winning the decathlon at the Kansas Relays, Barrefors says he hopes to compete in more multi-event competitions.
Jayhawk thrower takes home first Kansas victory in Relays
MAX GOODWIN
mgoodwin@kansan.com
Senior Alena Krechyk was the first Jayhawk to win an event of the 2012 Kansas Relays with a victory in the women's hammer throw on Thursday. Her winning throw went 66.05 meters. The throw is the best she has had at Kansas and breaks her own school record. Krechky fouled on two of her six throws, but of her four legal throws, even the shortest of 63.55 meters would have won the competition. The native of
Belarus has had a very strong final season at Kansas so far.
Chris Holly, who competed unattached, won the men's hammer throw with a throw of 57.73 meters. There were no Jayhawks involved in the men's competition.
Holly threw the hammer over 57 meters on three of his six attempts with only one foul. He was the 2009 junior college national champion of the hammer throw at Neosho Community College. In 2010, Holly competed for the University of Missouri, earning All-Big 12 in the
hammer throw. His best collegiate throw came at the 2010 Kansas Relays, a throw of 61.42 meters, which qualified him to compete in the NCAA Championships that year.
Tomaz Bogovich, competing for Kansas State, earned second place with a throw that fell just 6 inches short of Holly's winning throw. Bogovich, a senior and a native of Slovenia, is the current Kansas State school-record holder in the hammer throw.
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Junior distance runner Tessa Turcotte leads the pack in the 3,000-meter event Thursday night in the Kansas Relays. Turcotte won the event.
Tori Polk soars in mid-air Thursday evening during the women long jump invitational held on Massachusetts Street. Polk placed in 2nd with her 6.43 meter jump.
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