{"id":218389,"date":"2026-04-04T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218389\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:19:08","slug":"4x100-meter-relay-posts-top-10-time-at-florida-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218389\/","title":{"rendered":"4&#215;100-Meter Relay Posts Top-10 Time at Florida Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Site: Gainesville, Fla. (Percy Beard Track at James G. Pressly Stadium)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEvent: Florida Relays (Day 1 of 2)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nU-M Team Finish:No Team Scoring<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNext U-M Event: Saturday, April 4 &#8212; at Florida Relays &#8211; Day Two (Gainesville, Fla.), 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. &#8212; The No. 4-ranked University of Michigan men&#8217;s track and field team opened the Florida Relays on Friday (April 3) at the Percy Beard Track at James G. Pressly Stadium, setting a top-10 time in the 4&#215;100-meter relay.<\/p>\n<p>The relay squad of <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/amit-rutman\/27249\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27249\" target=\"_blank\">Amit Rutman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/jake-machiniak\/27265\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27265\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Machiniak<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/krish-gupta\/27229\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27229\" target=\"_blank\">Krish Gupta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/corey-royster\/27248\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27248\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Royster<\/a> finished seventh in the preliminary round with a time of 40.03 seconds, the No. 3 time on the program performers list. The squad advanced to Saturday&#8217;s finals.<\/p>\n<p>Machiniak finished 10th in the 200-meter dash with a time of 20.89 (+2.4m\/s), just 0.12 seconds shy of his personal best.<\/p>\n<p>In the 400-meter hurdles, <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/caleb-root\/27263\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27263\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Root<\/a> finished 29th with a time of 53.45 to come just 0.20 seconds from his personal best, while <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/brayden-kennedy\/27237\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27237\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Kennedy<\/a> ran a personal best time of 53.77 to finish 32nd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/quincy-isaac\/27260\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27260\" target=\"_blank\">Quincy Isaac<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/jake-wall\/27255\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27255\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Wall<\/a> made their season debuts, placing sixth (7.23m\/23 feet, 8.75 inches) and ninth (7.03m\/23-0.75), respectively, in the long jump.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan will close out the Florida Relays on Saturday with the 110-meter hurdles preliminary round at 12:30 p.m. at Percy Beard Track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Site: Gainesville, Fla. (Percy Beard Track at James G. Pressly Stadium)&#13; Event: Florida Relays (Day 1 of 2)&#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-218389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}