Even though he’s just 21 years old, K-State’s Erik Kynard will high jump in the London Olympics later this summer. Kynard stamped his ticket for the Summer Games on Monday night with a leap of 7′ 5 3/4″ at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. With rainy and cold conditions, nobody jumped higher than Kynard. He finished as the runner-up in the competition with the second least amount of earlier missed jumps. Kynard is the first K-State athlete with eligibility remaining to compete in the Olympics since Nathan Leeper in 2000, also a high jumper.
Kynard will high jump in the London Olympics on Sunday, August 5th in the prelims, and the finals are on Tuesday, August 7th. K-State coach Cliff Rovelto will coach all three men’s high jumpers in the Olympics, with professionals Jamie Nieto and Jesse Williams also under his tutelege.
