Three to contend for national titles

Friday, March 9, 2007

Juniors Egor Agafonov, Kate Sultanova and Colby Wissel will be in Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend for the NCAA Indoor Championships.

All three athletes won their respective events at the Big 12 Championships and each ranked second in the nation.

Wissel, the 2006 Big 12 Cross Country champion and 2007 Big 12 indoor 3,000 meter champion, automatically qualified for his event March 3. Wissel broke out for a school record time of 7:53.08, and sits less than one second behind the best time in the nation at 7:52.42. Wissel is scheduled to run at 7:50 p.m. Saturday.

Unlike Wissel, both Agafonov and Sultanova have had their nationals tickets punched for several weeks, but that hasn’t stopped them from continuing their success week-to-week.

Sultanova cleared her career-best height of 14-00.50 Feb. 10 on the same runway she will perform on at 5 p.m. Saturday. Sultanova missed the 2006 season, but finished 10th at the 2005 Indoor Championships, clearing a height of 13-01.50. The junior took this year’s Big 12 pole vault crown with a height of 13-09.25.

Agafonov enters Friday’s competition with another career-best throw of 76-01 which won him the 2007 Big 12 weight throw. The junior also captured the Big 12 title in 2006 and finished second at last season’s NCAA Championships with his first throw of 76-01.

Agafonov automatically qualified for this year’s championships on Jan. 27 at the DeHart Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M. Agafonov’s throw is just four inches behind that of Auburn’s Cory Martin.

The competition takes place in Arkansas’ Randal Tyson Track Center, one of the fastest tracks in the nation and the home of the NCAA Indoor National Championships since 2000.

Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern@kansan.com.

— Edited by Will McCullough

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