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As California track & field enters the biggest month of its outdoor regular season, the Golden Bears are excited to welcome fans and opponents alike, including Pac-12 powerhouses Oregon and Stanford, to Edwards Stadium for the Brutus Hamilton Invitational
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[LiveStream] Brutus Hamilton Invitational 2023 Live Athletics Broadcast
As California track & field enters the biggest month of its outdoor regular season, the Golden Bears are excited to welcome fans and opponents alike, including Pac-12 powerhouses Oregon and Stanford, to Edwards Stadium for the Brutus Hamilton Invitational this week.
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For the first time at this particular meet, Cal will host a multi-events competition, with nearly two dozen total competitors in the decathlon and heptathlon on Thursday (1 p.m. PT) and Friday (11 a.m.); the rest of the events will be held on Saturday, beginning with the men's hammer at 9:30 a.m.
Eight athletes – six decathletes and two heptathletes – will compete in the Blue & Gold on Thursday and Friday; only one of them (sophomore Riley Knott) has previously competed in the outdoor multi-events for Cal, while three others (seniors Jono Pelusi and Cole Whatley, sophomore Yuki Hamachi) have only done so at previous institutions. Saturday's events will include eight Bears.
Cal has posted a tremendous start to its outdoor season as its men are ranked third in the West Region, while its women currently sit in fifth. Eleven of the Bears' athletes are currently ranked in the top 25 nationally, led by sophomore Tyler Burns (No. 5, men's pole vault) and senior Anna Purchase (No. 6, women's hammer). Eight total event squads are ranked in the top 25, topped by the men's (No. 3) and women's (No. 4) pole vault.
Perhaps the biggest storyline for the Bears on Saturday is the much-anticipated season debut of star sophomore Mykolas Alekna, who broke the all-time collegiate discus record last season and finished second at the NCAA Outdoor Championships before winning silver at the World Championships and gold at the European Championships. Alekna's current personal best of 69.81m (229-0), which he set last July at the age of 19 to set the world record for a teenager, is the 32nd-farthest throw of all time by any athlete worldwide. Prior to the season, he was named the world's No. 2 overall discus thrower by Track & Field News. He currently owns the Brutus Hamilton meet record at 64.97m (213-2).