University of Minnesota Athletics
MINNESOTA MEN WIN 4X400 RELAY, FINISH FOURTH OVERALL
5/20/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Track & Field
The Golden Gopher's opened the final day of competition at the 2001 Big Ten Track and Field Championships with a second-place finish in the 4x100m relay. Matt Taylor, Steve Burkholder, Ben Taylor and Tom Gerding combined for a season-best time of 40.33 seconds. They were runner-up to Iowa's 40.14.
Less than an hour later, Gerding followed up with another runner-up performance in the 400m dash. He ran an NCAA automatic qualifying and school record time of 45.37. Andy Wohlin followed in fourth with his career-best time of 46.89. Adam Steele added more points for Minnesota with a seventh place finish and a 47.56.
Matt Taylor followed up his outstanding performance in the relay with a sixth place finish in the 100m dash. His time of 10.57 is a new career-best. Steve Burkholder finished right with Taylor at 10.57, his best time of the season.
Minnesota added several more points with strong finishes by Jason Owen and Toby Henkels in the 800m. Owen showed a tremendous kick in the last 200m to move from sixth and finish in third with a 1:48.60. Henkels finished fifth with a 1:49.96.
Mikael Jakobsson took fifth for Minnesota in the 400m hurdles with a NCAA provisional and school record time of 50.98.
Tom Gerding had his third runner-up finish of the championships in the 200m, while Matt Taylor finished sixth.
The 4x400m relay wrapped up the championship with their school record time of 3:05.07.
Final Team Standings 1. Wisconsin - 135 2. Ohio State - 117.50 3. Penn State - 98.83 4. Minnesota - 93 5. Iowa - 91 6. Indiana - 81.67 7. Purdue - 75 8. Michigan State - 43 9. Michigan - 43 10. Illinois - 41 Minnesota's compete results 100m prelims 5. Matt Taylor, 10.71; 9. Steve Burkholder, 10.81; 11. Ben Taylor, 10.85 100m finals 6. Matt Taylor, 10.57; 7. Steve Burkholder, 10.58 200m prelims 4. Tom Gerding, 21.28; 9. Matt Taylor, 21.51 200m finals 2. Tom Gerding, 20.78; 7. Matt Taylor, 21.32 400m prelims 2. Tom Gerding, 46.57; 5. Adam Steele, 46.93; 8. Andy Wohlin, 47.32; 15. Andy Wiberg, 48.10 400m finals 2. Tom Gerding, 45.38; 4. Andy Wohlin, 46.90; 7. Adam Steele, 47.57 800m prelims 5. Jason Owen, 1:48.94; 6. Toby Henkels, 1:50.77; 12. Brian Meyer, 1:51.73; 13. Zach Edmonson, 1:52.27 800m finals 3. Jason Owen, 1:48.61; 5. Toby Henkels, 1:49.97 1500m prelims 5. Marty Robeck, 3:49.33; 7. Neil Hanson, 3:49.40 1500m finals 10. Marty Robeck, 3:53.45; 12. Neil Hanson, 4:06.60 5,000m finals 10. Will McComb, 14:47.53; 15. Jeremy Polson, 15:04.66 10,000m finals 8. Jeremy Polson, 30:28.10 110m hurdle prelims 10. Lyndon McDowell, 14.55 400m hurdle prelims 7. Mikael Jakobsson, 51.20; 10. Bob Quade, 51.53 400m hurdle finals 5. Mikael Jakobsson, 50.99 4x100m Relay 2. Minnesota (M. Taylor, Burkholder, B. Taylor, Gerding), 40.34 4x400m Relay 1. Minnesota (Mitch Potter, Jakobsson, Wohlin, Gerding), 3:05.07 High Jump 3. Marc Johannsen, 6-11 1/2; 6. Lyndon McDowell, 6-9 3/4; 13. Scott Berggren, 6-6 3/4 Long Jump 2. Omar Clemmons, 24-7 3/4; 5. Lyndon McDowell, 23-4 1/2 Discus 2. Mark Fahey, 173-7 Hammer 8. Mark Fahey, 182-5; 9. Lynden Reder, 178-4; 10. Ben Meyer, 174-1.
