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Recent Gyorffy jump is second-best in the world

For Gyorffy, women’s track co-captain Brenda Taylor, and freshman Alasdair McLean-Foreman, it will be their third consecutive weekend at the Tigers’ Weaver Track Stadium, which also hosted Outdoor Heptagonals and the Princeton Invitational.

Gyorffy has no close competition at ECACs and should win with ease. In terms of breaking records this weekend, however, Gyorffy does not have the highest expectations for herself.

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“I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it this weekend, because I’ll still be tired from exams and papers,” Gyorffy said.

But schoolwork didn’t stop Gyorffy at ECACs two years ago, when she jumped a meet-record 1.94 meters, which was her best outdoor height until last week.

Gyorffy’s final collegiate competition will be on June 2 at the NCAA Outdoor Track Championships in Oregon. Although she has yet to win an NCAA Outdoor title in her career, Gyorffy is the heavy favorite this season. The next-best jump in the nation, from Jeana Bingham of BYU, is over a tenth of a meter lower than Gyorffy’s personal best.

“The second girl is at 1.85 meters, so it would be pretty ugly if I lost,” Gyorffy said.

If the high jump competition sticks to form, Harvard would be in the unprecedented situation of having two different national high jump champions in the same calendar year. Sophomore Kart Siilats won the NCAA Indoor title in March, while Gyorffy was competing at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.

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