Sam Liokumovich_JPL_03302024_00093

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Three-time USTFCCCCA All-Academic (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Five-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023, 2024)

As a Fifth-Year Senior (2024)
Outdoors

  • Accomplished a feat that hadn’t been done at Stanford in 12 years – placed among the top three in the men’s shot put at the Pac-12 Championships
  • Third in the Pac-12 at 60-1 (18.31 meters) -- the best Stanford placing in that event since Geoffrey Tabor was third in 2021 with a put of 55-5 ½ (16.90m)
  • It was his second consecutive meet over 60 feet and the second-best performance of his career
  • Won the Big Meet shot with a personal best 61-3
  • The distance placed him No. 3 in Stanford history
  • Had a season best in the discus of 162-3 (49.45), at the Hornet Invitational
  • Won the discus at the Chris Rinne Invitational
  • Won the shot put at the Payton Jordan Invite
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic team
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

As a Senior (2023)

Outdoors

  • Did not compete
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors 

  • Earned a season-best in the shot put of 58-9 1/2 (17.32) to win the Spokane Invitational
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Junior (2022)
Outdoors

  • Placed 10th at the Pac-12 Championships in the shot put
  • Won the shot at the Cardinal Classic and won the collegiate discus at the Stanford Invitational
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic team
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Reached personal best in the shot with a 59-8 1/2 (18.20m) to place third at the Don Kirby Invite
  • The mark moved him to No. 4 on Stanford's all-time indoor list 
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

As a Sophomore (2021)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

As a Freshman (2020)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled

Indoors

  • No. 10 Stanford all-time indoors (shot put)
  • Threw personal best of 55-1 1/2 (16.80m) to place seventh at MPSF Championships
  • Made collegiate debut with 54-9 1/4 (16.69m)

Prior to Stanford

  • Third at 2019 New Balance Outdoor Nationals in the shot put
  • Threw PB of 65-2 1/4 (19.86m) at New Balance Outdoor Nationals
  • Seventh at 2019 New Balance Indoor Nationals in the shot
  • 2019 Illinois state 3A champ at Deerfield High School
  • Broke brother Igor's school shot put record
  • Deerfield High team won five team Suburban League championships, indoors and outdoors

Personal

  • Parents are Bora and Alla Liokumovich
  • Brother, Igor Liokumovich, was among the top throwers in Harvard track and field history
  • First generation American
  • Brother was born in Minsk, Belarus, and parents immigrated to the U.S. in 1993

Career Results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2024 Outdoors (9) SP 61-3 (18.67) 3 (60-1) 21 (58-10) --
    DT 162-3 (49.45) 15 (155-0) -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
2023 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (3) SP 58-9 1/2 (17.91) -- -- --
2022 Outdoors (7) SP 57-5 3/4 (17.52) 10 (57-5 3/4) -- --
    DT 168-6 (51.37) 165-5 (50.52) -- --
    JT 136-3 (41.53) -- -- --
  Indoors (5) SP 59-8 1/2 (18.20) -- -- --
2021 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
2020 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (3) SP 55-1 1/2 (16.80) 7 (55-1 1/2) -- --
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2020-21
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2021-22
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2022-23
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2023-24
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