2018 Track & Field Roster

John P. Lozano/Stanford Athletics

Michael Painter

  • Position Throws
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Norwich, England
  • High School Sprowston Community
  • Major Computer science
  • Prev School Univ. of Cambridge

Biography

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:
Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2018 Outdoors (9) Hammer 208-0 (63.41) 4 (208-0) 20 (203-8) --
Indoors (5) Weight throw 63-5 (19.33) 5 (63-5) -- --
2017 Outdoors HT 219-3 (66.84) 2 (214-2) 13 (212-4) --
Discus 136-6 (41.60) -- -- --
Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --

Historical Player Information

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  • 2018Graduate Student

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