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Men's Track and Field Home For Third Consecutive Weekend Hosting Upstate Challenge

1/16/2025 2:30:00 PM

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell men's track and field will host their third home meet, the Upstate Challenge, on Saturday Jan. 18 in Barton Hall.

MEET INFO

The Upstate Challenge will tentatively start at 11 a.m. with the men's weight throw as the first field event and the 60m hurdles shortly after at 12:30 p.m. To see the full list of events and event times click HERE.

Live results will be posted following each race and field event as fans can follow along on Leone Timing.

Cornell is joined in the field by Binghamton, Colgate, Guelph, Hartwick and Syracuse.

LAST TIME OUT

The Big Red dominated at the Southern Tier Invite sweeping the podium in multiple events with two new entries into Cornell history books. Domenic Barresi and Panashe Nhenga set personal-best and landed on top of the leaderboard in the 60m both with a time of 6.77 seconds. Barresi beat his previous record by .01 second to remain the fifth best 60m time. Nhenga ran the same time and set the freshman record that was previously held by Chris Bain (6.79) and set in 2010.

The Big Red swept the podium in the mile, 60m hurdles, 400m and shot put. Other top finishes included Elijah Schechter running a 1:21.83 in the 600m, Brady Shute in the 800m with a time of 1:53.01, Barresi again in the 200m with a time of 21.70, Northrup in the weight throw with a mark of 17.48m, in the pole vault Eli Gault-Crabb with a mark of 4.90m and Desmond Whitley with a personal-best jump of 14.74 in the triple jump.

UP NEXT

Cornell will hit the road for the first road meet at the Penn 10 Elite host by Penn.

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