Rikkoi Brathwaite wins the Big 10 Conference Indoor Championships 60m in a meet record 6.55 seconds. PHOTO: Indiana Athletics Department
By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway
Indiana Jr. Rikkoi Brathwaite made his third successive Big 10 Conference Indoor Championships finals his most memorable one.
Leading from gun to wire, Brathwaite buried the 60m sprint field, by beating defending champion Wasee Williams of Purdue and shattering his 6.58 seconds championships record from 2020, when he stopped the clock at 6.55 seconds, at the Spire Dome in Geneva, Ohio on Saturday. Williams was second in 6.66.
The mark is a new personal best, Indiana School Record, BVI Indoor Record and tied the 14 year-old All Time Big 10 Conference Record established by Wisconsin’s Demi Omole, in 2007. In the process, Brathwaite became the 17