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2021 NCAA Women’s Indoor: Arkansas Repeats, Athing Mu Gets Beat (Then Runs the Fastest Indoor 4×400 Split Ever), Courtney Wayment Double
March 13, 2021
The 2021 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships concluded in Fayetteville, Ark., and the Arkansas Razorbacks won the title 68 to 57 over Texas A&M with a true team performance. The Razorbacks didn’t win a single individual event (the Oregon men won six en route to their title), but scored in 10 of the 17 events and clinched the title with 17 points in the 3000m. It added up to the second-highest score in meet history, behind only the 84 logged by Oregon’s triple crown winners of 2017.
RRW: Wesley Kiptoo, Joyce Kimeli Win NCAA 5000m Titles
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(12-Mar) Iowa State’s Wesley Kiptoo and Auburn’s Joyce Kimeli won the 5000m titles on the penultimate day of the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center at the University of Arkansas today, while the men of Oregon and women of Brigham Young took the distance medley relay titles with superb anchor-leg runs.
Wesley Kiptoo winning the 2021 NCAA Division I Indoor Championships 5000m (photo via cyclones.com)
Kiptoo dominated the men’s race, running away from the field to win in a championships record of 13:23.77. Wearing black knitted gloves (he later said his hands were cold), Kiptoo started the race aggressively, splitting the first 400m in 59.8 seconds, and the first 800m in 2:01.1. Although Arkansas’s Amon Kemboi and Florida State’s Adrian Wildschutt remained within striking distance, Kiptoo f