Felix 11th in Decathlon 110-Meter Hurdles at NCAA Championships

As Blue Through and Through told you, Kurt Felix will begin to fall from the upper part of the decathlon standings.  In the first event today, Felix placed 11th in the 110-meter hurdles.


Felix scored 848 points in the event, just shy of the 862 he scored at the Mountain West Track & Field Championships.  Next up for the decathletes:  the discus, one of Kurt's worst events.  He scored 591 at the MW Championships.

Men's Decathlon 110 Meter Hurdles  Place Athlete Name Yr Affiliation Time Wind Points Heat(Pl)  1 Gonzalo Barroilhet SR Florida State 14.04 +1.2  969 4 (1)  2 Japheth Cato SO Wisconsin 14.17 +1.2  953 4 (2)  3 Terry Prentice SR Arkansas 14.33 +1.2  932 4 (3)  4 Clayton Chaney JR Rice 14.47 +1.2  915 4 (4)  5 Gunnar Nixon FR Arkansas 14.51 +1.0  910 5 (1)  6 Bjorn Barrefors JR Nebraska 14.54 +1.0  906 5 (2)  7 Petter Olson FR Texas 14.58 +1.0  901 5 (3)  8 Romain Martin JR Texas-Arlington 14.60 +1.4  899 1 (1)  9 Isaac Murphy JR Texas 14.66 +1.0  891 5 (4)  10 Nick Huber SR Cornell 14.80 +1.4  874 1 (2)  11 Kurt Felix SR Boise State 15.01 +1.4  848 [15.001] 1 (3)  12 Jeff Mohl JR Montana State 15.01 +1.4  848 [15.004] 1 (4)  13 Dave Grzesiak SR Wisconsin 15.08 -0.6  840 [15.077] 2 (1)  13 Heath Nickles JR Ohio State 15.08 +0.9  840 [15.077] 3 (1)  15 Daniel Gooris JR Northern Iowa 15.11 -0.6  836 2 (2)  16 Kevin Lazas SO Arkansas 15.12 +0.9  835 3 (2)  17 Thomas FitzSimons SR Mount St. Mary's 15.20 +0.9  825 3 (3)  18 Marcus Nilsson SO UCLA 15.24 -0.6  821 2 (3)  19 Dakotah Keys FR Oregon 15.30 -0.6  814 2 (4)  20 Tomas Kirielius JR Kansas State 15.53 +0.9  787 3 (4)  DNS Derek Masterson JR UC Santa Barbara  DNS Jack Szmanda JR Minnesota  DNS Jake Waruch JR Connecticut  DNS Richard York JR New Mexico