EUGENE, Ore. – Adam Spencer and Gio Wearing won Big Ten outdoor titles, Bob Liking, Joseph White, Jalen Williams earned silver medals while Matan Ivri took bronze to lead the Wisconsin men’s track and field team to a runner-up finish at the 2025 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Sunday at Hayward Field.
UW finished with 81 points to tie for second with Minnesota. Oregon won with 110 points.
Stellar Spencer
Senior Adam Spencer got things going for the Badgers in the men’s 1500 meters, winning his fifth Big Ten individual title thanks to a time of 3 minutes, 53.18 seconds. .
The school record holder in the event with a time of 3:31.81 set at the 2023 Diamond League race in London, it marks his second Big Ten title in the event after he won the 1500 meters as a freshman in 2022. It marks the third time in the last four years UW has won the 1500 meters at Big Tens as Jackson Sharp won the event in 2023.
Spencer wasn’t the only Badger to score in the event as Liam Newhart took eighth with a time of 3:54.85.
Golden Gio
Minutes after Spencer’s victory in the 1500 meters, Gio Wearing scored another 10 points for UW in the team standings thanks to an exciting victory in the 110 hurdles.
The Ashburn, Virginia, native, dove at the line to win the high hurdles in a season-best time of 13.46, nipping Kai Graves-Blanks of Iowa who was second in 13.51.
Wearing became the first Badger to win a Big Ten crown in the 110 hurdles since Paul Check in 2005 and the seventh different Badger to win the event since 1977.
Fantastic 5000
Continuing their distance legacy, the 5000-meter race saw the Badgers total 21 points. Led by four-time Big Ten cross country champion Bob Liking finished runner-up in the event with a season best time of 13:32.47. Followed closely by Matan Ivri with a time of 13:33.79, this was freshman’s first Big Ten podium finish.
Graduate student Rowen Ellenberg snatched a fifth-place finish in the event with a personal best time of 13:35.61. Christian de Vaal rounded out the top-6 with a personal best time of 13:35.97 in the highly competitive field of 37 athletes.
Dynamite Discus
Joseph White, school record holder in the discus, cemented his status as one of the greatest Badgers to do so, placing second in the event with a throw of 196-2 (59.80m).
Teammate Jake Schaefer joined him on the podium with…
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