The 1992 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested June 3−6, 1992 at Mike A. Myers Stadium at the
University of Texas at Austin
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in
Austin, Texas
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in order to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate Division I outdoor
track and field
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events in the
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.
These were the 70th annual men's championships and the 11th annual women's championships. This was the Longhorns' fifth time hosting the event and the first since
1985
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(the last and only other time Arkansas had won the men's title before 1992).
Arkansas
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and
LSU
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topped the men's and women's team standings, respectively; it was the Razorbacks' second men's team title and the sixth for the Lady Tigers. This was Arkansas' first title since 1985 and was the first of eight consecutive titles for the Razorbacks. The Lady Tigers, meanwhile, captured their sixth consecutive title and, ultimately, the sixth of eleven straight titles they won between 1987 and 1997.
Team results
* Note: Top 10 only
* (H) = Hosts
*Full results
Men's standings
Women's standings
Individual champions
Men's
100-meter
Olapade Adeniken
Olapade Charles Adeniken (born 19 August 1969 in Osogbo) is a retired Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres, and is the father of Michael Adeniken.
He won the silver medal in 4 x 100 m relay at the 1992 Olympic ...
,
UTEP
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, 10.09
200-meter
Olapade Adeniken
Olapade Charles Adeniken (born 19 August 1969 in Osogbo) is a retired Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres, and is the father of Michael Adeniken.
He won the silver medal in 4 x 100 m relay at the 1992 Olympic ...
,
UTEP
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, 20.11
400-meter
Quincy Watts
Quincy D. Watts (born June 19, 1970) is an American former athlete, and two time gold medallist at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Career
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Quincy Watts attended the University of Southern California (USC) where he excelled ...
Tennessee
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Arizona
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Western Kentucky
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Dan Steele
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LSU
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( Reggie Jones, Bryant Williams, Chris King, Jason Sanders), 38.70
1,600-meter relay
Georgia Tech
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Octavius Terry
Octavius Terry (born November 7, 1972) is an American former hurdler.
He graduated from Creekside High School in Fairburn, Georgia in 1991. He then went to Georgia Tech where he was the 1994 NCAA Champion in the 400 hurdles. The following y ...
, Julian Amede,
Derrick Adkins
Derrick Ralph Adkins (born July 2, 1970) is a former American track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter hurdles. He was an Olympic gold medalist in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics and World Champion at the 1995 World Champi ...
Southern Illinois
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George Mason
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Arkansas
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Arkansas
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Brent Noon
Brent Noon (born August 29, 1971) is an inactive American Track and Field athlete, known primarily for throwing the Shot Put.
While competing for Fallbrook Union High School, Noon recorded the second-best all-time outdoor mark in the shot put, the ...
,
Georgia
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Nevada
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Hammer Throw
Mika Laaksonen,
UTEP
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,
Javelin
Art Skipper,
Oregon
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,
Decathlon
Brian Brophy,
Tennessee
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, 8,276
Women's
100-meter
Chryste Gaines
Chryste Dionne Gaines (born September 14, 1970, in Lawton, Oklahoma) is an American Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the sprints.
Education
Gaines is a 1988 graduate of South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas, Texas.Stanford, 11.05 ( w)
200-meter
Dahlia Duhaney
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,
LSU
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Florida
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, 51.01
800-meter
Nekita Beasley,
Florida
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, 2:03.04
1,500-meter
Sue Gentes,
Wisconsin
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, 4:16.38
3,000-meter
Nnenna Lynch
Nnenna Lynch (born July 3, 1971, in New York City, New York) is a retired middle distance and long distance runner from the United States.
She won the gold medal at the 1997 Summer Universiade in Catania, Italy in the women's 5,000 metres event, ...
George Mason
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, 34:39.92
110-meter High Hurdles
Michelle Freeman
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Freeman was born in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. In 1988, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding a ...
,
Florida
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Illinois
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, 55.12
400-meter relay
LSU
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(
Dawn Bowles
Dawn Bowles-Fitch (born November 12, 1968) is a retired American track and field athlete who specialized in the 100 meters hurdles. She represented her country at three outdoor and one indoor World Championships. In addition she won the gold at t ...
,
Cheryl Taplin
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, Cinnamon Sheffield,
Dahlia Duhaney
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), 43.03
1,600-meter relay
Florida
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(Nekita Beasley,
Michelle Freeman
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Freeman was born in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. In 1988, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding a ...
Tanya Hughes
,
Tanya Yvette Hughes (née Jones; born January 25, 1972) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who set her personal best on May 22, 1992, jumping 1.97 metres at a meet in Eugene, Oregon.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Hughes is ...
,
Arizona
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Florida
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,
Shot Put
Katrin Koch,
Indiana
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Discus
Anna Mosdell,
BYU
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Javelin
Valerie Tulloch,
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Heptathlon
Anu Kaljurand
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Career
She finished seventeenth in the Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's heptathlon, heptathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal at the NCAA ...
,
BYU
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NCAA
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