Michael_Painter_JPL_04072018_0010

TFRRS Performance Profile

Personal bests (thru 2018)

  • Hammer: 219-3 (66.84m)
  • Discus: 157-7 (48.03m)
  • Weight throw: 63-5i (19.33m)

As a graduate student (2018):
Outdoor

  • Pac-12 All-Academic first team.

Indoor

  • Moved to No. 5 on Stanford's all-time list in the weight throw.

As a graduate student (2017):
Outdoors

  • Moved to No. 8 on Stanford's all-time list in the hammer (219-3, 66.84m).
  • Big Meet hammer winner, setting a lifetime best of 219-3 (66.84m).
  • Pac-12 runner-up in the hammer.
  • Missed qualifying for the NCAA Championships by one place at the NCAA West Prelims.

Indoors

  • Did not compete.

National/International:

  • The Norwich, England, native competed at University of Cambridge.
  • Threw his best hammer of 215-5 (65.67m) at Eton on May 7, 2016.

High School:

  • Claimed gold at the 2011 Aviva English Schools’ Track and Field Championships, in Gateshead.

Personal:

  • A master's student in computer science.
  • Interested in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and medical imaging.
  • Achieved his bachelor's in computer science from University of Cambridge.
  • Final-year project was Spectral Image Analysis for Medical Imaging.

Career results:

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2018Outdoors (9)Hammer208-0 (63.41)4 (208-0)20 (203-8)--
Indoors (5)Weight throw63-5 (19.33)5 (63-5)----
2017OutdoorsHT219-3 (66.84)2 (214-2)13 (212-4)--
Discus136-6 (41.60)------
Indoors (0)----------
Painter_Michael
2017-18
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