Hammonton graduate Anthony Liaknovich popped a huge three-foot shot put PR Friday at the Ott Center and moved into the No. 5 spot this year in the Ivy League.
Liaknovich continued a breakthrough season for Princeton by throwing 58-5 ¼ at the Philadelphia Metro Invitational. That extended his PR from 55-5, which he just threw two weeks ago at the Ott Center. His first 50-foot throw with the 1 16-pound ball came just about a month ago when he threw 54-10, also at the Ott.
His 58-5 ¼ is the best throw by a Princeton freshman in seven years, since Chris Licata of Gill St. Bernard, which is in both Peacock-Gladstone Township, Somerset County, and Chester Township, Morris County, threw 59-11 ¼ at the 2019 Heps at Harvard’s Gordon Track in Cambridge, Mass.
Liaknovich also threw 55-2 ¼ in the weight throw, just off his PR of 55-5 from earlier this month at the Ott.
Liaknovich is No. 11 in the Ivy in the weight and No. 2 freshman.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 