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Track And Field Has 13 Top-Three Finishes Saturday

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – University of Memphis' had three top-three finishes and also set also set a record for his native country in second-day action at the 2017 Rhodes Invitational Saturday.

Gunnarsson finished second in the men's 200 meters (20.96) and third in the men's 100 meters (10.51) and also ran a leg on the Tigers' third-place 4x400 meter relay (3:14.35). Gunnarsson's 20.96 in the 200 meters is an Icelandic national record. Gunnarsson, an Akureyri, Iceland, native, is the first man in Icelandic track and field history to run a sub 21-second 200 meters.

In a look-back to Friday, won the women's javelin with a school-record throw of 175-3 (53.