Pajus Wins Decathlon to Lead Dartmouth at Heps

Sunday, May 8

New Haven, Conn.

10:30 AM

Dartmouth College

Ivy League Championships

Karl-Oskar Pajus on the podium after winning the decathlon at the 2022 Outdoor Heps

Karl-Oskar Pajus on the podium after winning the decathlon at the Ivy League Outdoor Championships.

Photo by: The Ivy League/Sideline Photos

Pajus Wins Decathlon to Lead Dartmouth at Heps

5/8/2022 7:46:00 PM | Men's Track & Field

Results

Karl-Oskar Pajus won the decathlon on Sunday, finishing with 7196 points.

By: Nick Romei

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Dartmouth men's track and field team finished in seventh place at the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships on Sunday at Yale.

The Big Green finished the two days in New Haven with 35 points. Princeton claimed the team title with 231 points, followed Harvard (136) and Penn (86) to round out the top three spots.

Karl-Oskar Pajus capped off an impressive two days by winning the decathlon with a total of 7196 points. This is the fourth straight Outdoor Heps in which a Dartmouth athlete has won the decathlon. Nico Robinson won in 2017 followed by Benjamin Ose in 2018 and 2019.

"I'm very pleased with the way our team fought through each event this weekend," said Marjorie & Herbert Chase '30 Director of Dartmouth Track & Field and Cross Country Porscha Dobson. "Each event group was represented. We qualified for more finals than we did at the indoor championships, put some big points on the board and finished with some great lifetime bests and hardware to bring home to Hanover." included Dobson.

"Improvement takes a collective effort, and I am proud our captains and seniors really led the way in helping to support our team," Dobson said.

FINAL STANDINGS

Princeton 231
Harvard 136
Penn 86
Cornell 65
Brown 58
Columbia 39
Dartmouth 35
Yale 29

HIGHLIGHTS

Pajus' score of 7196 eclipses the top-10 for both program history and Ivy League history. The freshman now has the ninth best score ever at Heps and sixth in Dartmouth history. He is 12^th in the NCAA East Regional rankings.
Will Daley finished fifth in the 5000m with a time of 14:03 against a competitive field.
The 4x800m team of Seth Weprin, Eric Gibson, Maclean Hadden, and Jacob Winslow took fifth, finishing the race in 7:39.
While Pajus won the decathlon, Ryan Cashman put on an impressive display, taking fourth while Connor Luck, competing in his first Outdoor Heps, finished sixth.
Myles Epstein grabbed sixth in the 200m dash with a time of 21.96.
Rahul Batlanki, competing at his first Outdoor Heps, PR'd in the triple jump and made the finals but finished just outside of scoring position.
Gibson and Winslow took seventh and eighth in the 1500m, just missing the cutoff for a spot on the podium.
Justin Stevens finished strong in the home stretch in the 400m hurdles, taking seventh in his first ever Outdoor Heps.