Thorvaldson breaks Arkansas 5,000m record held by Dominique Scott
AZUSA, Calif. — Arkansas junior distance runner Sydney Thorvaldson broke the Arkansas 5,000-meter run school record with a time of 15:25.07 seconds racing at the Bryan Clay Invitational last weekend.
AZUSA, Calif. — Arkansas junior distance runner Sydney Thorvaldson broke the Arkansas 5,000-meter run school record with a time of 15:25.07 seconds racing at the Bryan Clay Invitational last weekend.
Thorvaldson, who had a previous best of 15:41.58 from last season, bettered the UA record of 15:25.1 set by Dominique Scott in 2016 while improving by 16.5 seconds. In 2022, Razorback Lauren Gregory came with 0.07 of Scott’s record while placing eighth at the Mount SAC Relays in California.
Clipping the Arkansas school record by 0.03 of a second placed Thorvaldson 11th in the first section of the Invite 5,000-meter run at the Bryan Clay Invitational. Alabama’s Hilda Olemomoi won the race in 15:06.42 over professional Abbey Cooper (15:11.15).
Thorvaldson was the fourth best collegian in the race behind Oregon’s Silan Ayyildiz (15:15.84) and Colorado’s Bailey Hertenstein (15:18.8) while finishing ahead of Texas Tech’s Juliet Cherubet (15:25.71). This group of collegians placed 1-6-8-11-12 in the race.
For the 2024 season, Thorvaldson currently ranks sixth in the 5,000-meter and is second best in the Southeastern Conference behind Olemomoi.
Earlier this outdoor season Thorvaldson set a career best in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 32:36.47 at Stanford, which ranks No. 5 on the UA all-time list and is currently fifth best among collegians this season and third best in the SEC.
Thorvaldson ranks among the Arkansas top 10 in three events, with the other being the indoor 5,000-meter run where her 15:42.45 from this season ranks No. 3 among Razorbacks.
