Stanford Invite: Day One

Published by Stanford SID on April 3, 2015

STANFORD, Calif. -- Fourteen and a half hours after the first javelin throw, Garrett Sweatt closed out a day of track and field by racing to victory in the final section of the 10,000 meters at 11:30 p.m. Friday night.

The Stanford junior ran 28:51.56 to shatter his personal record by more than 2 ½ minutes and highlight Stanford performances at the Stanford Invitational at Cobb Track and Angell Field. The two-day extravaganza will include more than 3,300 athletes by the time it's done Saturday.

Three meet records were broken and one stadium mark -- by China's Guowei Zhang with his 7-7 3/4 high jump. He punctuated his record clearance with a Gangnam Style dance on the pit.