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Iowa State University Athletics
Friday, March 12
Fayetteville, Ark.
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No. 12 ISU Men Ready for NCAA Indoor Championships
03.11.2021 | Track and Field
AMES, Iowa – It is championship season for indoor track and field and the No. 12 Iowa State men will have three shots to claim national titles this weekend at the 2021 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, hosted at the Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
To allow student-athletes space in the venue, the schedule was spread out this year. The meet was expanded to three days, with multi-events and field events beginning on Thursday, and the men's and women's competitions were split up into the afternoon and evening.
Live video will be shown on ESPN3, here, and ESPNU will air a replay show featuring the event finals and field event recaps next week. Live results will be provided by Flash Results here.
Iowa State begins competition at 2:55 p.m. on Friday with Jason Gomez in the men's 800-meter run, as he will be looking to make the final on Saturday at 2:40 p.m. Gomez, a sophomore, enters the race as the No. 3 seed and will be in Heat 1. It has been an outstanding season for the San Jose, California native and Notre Dame de Namur transfer, as he claimed the Big 12 title at 800 meters, the school record at 1,000m (2:19.11) and led-off for ISU's school record DMR team. Gomez ran his personal best 1:47.02 at 800m at the Cyclone Open in Ames in January.
At 3:05 p.m. on Friday, Wesley Kiptoo will take to the track for the final of the men's 5,000-meter run and is the No. 1 seed with his altitude-converted mark of 13:31.70 (raw time of 13:42.52) he ran during his dominant performance at the Big 12 Championships. Kiptoo's appearance in the 5K marks the fourth time in the past six years ISU had a qualifier in the longest race at the NCAA Indoor Championships. A win would make Kiptoo the third 5,000m run champion in ISU history, joining Jonah Koech (1990, 1991, 1993) and Jon Brown (1992).
Gomez and Kiptoo are both part of Iowa State's Distance Medley Relay pool, with the final of that race set to go off at 3:45 p.m. ISU is the No. 2 seed in that race on the back of the school-record 9:27.90 the Cyclones ran at the Razorback Invitational with the team of Gomez, Cebastian Gentil, Alex Lomong and Kiptoo. With Gomez and Kiptoo also doing individual events, the Cyclones have also travelled Joe Schaefer and Nehemia Too to Fayetteville as options for the relay. This is the third-straight season ISU has qualified for the DMR, with ISU taking fifth and earning First Team All-America honors in 2019.
This is not the end of the weekend for Kiptoo and Too, as the duo and assistant coach Jeremy Sudbury will travel from Fayetteville to Stillwater, Oklahoma to join up with the No. 7 Iowa State men's and No. 24 Iowa State women's cross country teams for Monday afternoon's NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships .
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