LINCOLN, Neb. – Purdue Track & Field’s Praise Aniamaka took home gold in the triple jump to lead the Boilermaker’s five medal finishes on the final day of the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.
Men’s Notes
• Aniamaka captured the triple jump gold after he jumped a wind-aided 16.73m (54-10.75). He was the B1G Champion in the event in 2023 and 2024 before he redshirted the 2025 outdoor season. Aniamaka concludes his Big Ten career with four titles, one silver medal and two bronze medals across indoor and outdoor. His true freshman season in 2022 outdoors was the only season he did not medal in the triple jump.
• The 4x400m relay of Jax Coleman, Victory Achakpoekri, Zach Mylenek and Samuel Vessat finished with a silver medal after running 3:04.84. The first time this relay ran together this season placed the group fifth in school history.
• Chidozie Kalu joined Aniamaka near the top of the podium when he earned bronze in the triple jump with a wind-aided 16.30m (53-05.75). Kalu concluded his 2026 Big Tens campaigns with silver indoors and bronze outdoors.
• Zion Jackson took fifth in the 110mH finals after he ran a wind-aided 13.84 (+4.5 m/s). He improved his positioning four places after he was ninth in the prelims to earn the last spot in the finals.
• Achakpoekri (46.87) and Zyan Greene (48.10) earned sixth and eighth in the 400m finals one day after they ran the second and third fastest times in program history in the prelims.
• Seamus Malaski earned eighth in the shot put when he threw 18.61m (61-00.75). The performance comes two days after he finished fifth in the hammer throw. Malaski scored in four of his five Big Tens entries between the indoor and outdoor championships.
• Purdue finished 11th out of 17 teams with 39 points.
Women’s Notes
• Alexia Smith took silver in the 400m after she ran 51.50 in the finals. It was the first medal of her collegiate career and comes on the heels of a 51.22 in the prelims that ranks second in school history. She has scored in all five of her 400m entries at Big Ten Championships indoors and outdoors.
• The 4x400m relay of Taiye Ayenuro, Smith, Marissa Palmer and Gia Clay claimed silver after running 3:30.30. The relay featured two of the Big Ten’s top seven runners in the open 400.
• Twin sisters Britannia Johnson (55.06m / 180-08) and Britannie Johnson (54.60m / 179-01) finished sixth and seventh in the discus. Britannie Johnson scored twice at the Big Ten Championships after she took seventh in the shot put on Saturday.
• Blessing Gideon finished sixth in the triple jump with a wind-aided 13.20m (43-03.75). She scored in both the long and triple jump after she was seventh in the long jump on Saturday. She was one of three athletes to score in both events.
• Clay took seventh in the 400m finals after she ran 52.98 to earn two points. In the prelims, Clay ran 52.55 to earn the last finals spot.
• Marissa Palmer took eighth in the 200m finals in a wind-aided 22.83 (+6.0 m/s) in her first Big Ten Championships after transferring in from Georgia State.
• Purdue finished ninth out of 18 teams with 34.5 points.
Next Up
Qualified Boilermakers prepare to compete for a spot at nationals when they travel to the NCAA East First Round from May 27-30 in Lexington, Kentucky.
