NCAA Men's Outdoor Track & Field: June 11

Photos courtesy of Minnesota Athletics and Wisconsin Athletics

RESULTS | JUNE 11 QUOTES

EUGENE, Ore. — A pair of Big Ten performers won individual national championships Wednesday as the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships opened at Hayward Field. The iconic venue is hosting the NCAAs for the 19th time overall and for the 10th occasion in the past 16 years.

The first medals of the championships were awarded in the hammer throw, where Minnesota picked up 18 points by way of a one-two finish by graduate student Kostas Zaltos (78.08m/256-2) and sophomore Angelos Mantzouranis (76.96m/252-6). A four-time Big Ten hammer champion, Zaltos became the first Big Ten thrower since 1933 to capture the NCAA hammer title while competing as a conference student-athlete. Mantzouranis added a silver medal to his 2025 resume, which includes the longest collegiate hammer throw recorded since 2002. Those performances, along with a fourth-place finish by sophomore Charles Godfred in the long jump, vaulted the Gophers atop the team leaderboard with 23 points.

Wisconsin senior Jason Swarens tossed 21.23m (69-8) on his final shot put attempt to claim a national title. The only man to eclipse 70 feet this year, Swarens becomes the first Badger male to win the event.

The lone event tomorrow for the men is completion of the decathlon as the Big Ten women take center stage on their first day of action.