DES MOINES, Iowa -- University of Nebraska athlete Till Steinforth, who is redshirting this outdoor season, won four of the five events to take a commanding lead Thursday during the opening day of the decathlon at the 114th Drake Relays presented by Xtream powered by Mediacom.
Steinforth, from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, compiled 4,295 points for a 332-point lead over Zack Butcher, a Northern Iowa athlete competing unattached.
Jordan Gray, bronze medalist at the 2023 Pan-American Games, leads a close race in the heptathlon with 3,576 points – 72 more than Lexie Keller.
Steinforth, coming off a third-place finish in the heptathlon at the NCAA indoor championships last month, dominated the competition from the start, winning the first four events under sunny skies and temperatures that reached the mid-60s.