Decatur, Ill. – The Washington University in St. Louis men's track and field team won nine events at the 2023 Big Blue Friday Night Invite hosted by Millikin University.
 
Track
Sophomore Jamie Olson won the 3,000m steeplechase, racing to a time of 9:57.86, the lone runner to break the 10 minute mark.
 
Senior Harry Mills finished second in the 100m in 11.12 while sophomore Samuel Pan took third with a time of 11.17.
 
Senior Marcus-Jay Wilkes won the 400m, racing to a time of 48.67 which ranks ninth in program history while junior Alex Djetto took second in 49.02. Junior Drew Sidamon-Eristoff finished third with a time of 49.86.
 
Junior William Houser won the 800 with a time of 1:50.77 which ranks ninth nationally while graduate Arthur Santoro took second in 1:50.80 which is tied for 10^th nationally and third in program history. Senior Jackson Cox finished fourth in 1:53.64 and first-year James Corbett took fifth in 1:54.01.
 
Junior Grant Lane took second in the 400m hurdles, running a time of 55.43 which ranks 10^th in program history.
 
Wilkes finished second in the 200m, racing to a time of 22.02.
 
Junior Frankie Lynch won the 1,500m run with a time of 3:52.52 while junior Cullen Capuano took second in 3:53.56.
 
The 4x400 team of Wilkes, Djetto, Cox and Santoro won with a time of 3:17.70. Jack Henry Whetstone, Ryan Githuku, Houser and Sidamon-Eristoff took second in 3:20.57.
 
First-year Conor Daly took second in the 5,000m, racing a time of 15:03.62 while first-year Alexander Bullard took third in 15:10.31. Sophomore Alexander Gadin finished fourth in 15:10.68 and junior Jack Maranz finished fifth in 15:12.20.
 
Field
First-year Jalen Dural won the high jump, clearing 1.95m which ranks 10^th in program history and is tied for 46^th nationally while senior Michael Snyder finished second with a jump of 1.90m.
 
Graduate Matt Moore won the long jump, hitting a mark of 7.03m while senior Abayomi Awoyomi took third with a jump of 6.54m. Dural finished fourth with a mark of 6.37m.
 
Awoyomi then won the triple jump with a mark of 14.12m. Dural took second with a jump of 13.20m.
 
First-year Hayden Kunkel won the pole vault, clearing 4.55m. Junior Tommaso Maiocco finished tied for third with a jump of 4.40m.
 
The Bears head to Indiana-Bloomington's Billy Hayes Invite on Friday.