The long wait for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics will finally end this week, and when it does Cornell will be represented by five alumni competing in five sports, including an Information Science alumni.
Rudy Winkler '17 will be making a return trip to the Games, after his 18th-place finish in the hammer throw in Rio. An information science major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Winkler has continued to ascend on the world stage after winning an NCAA outdoor championship in 2017 and capturing All-America honors three times in the hammer throw and twice in the weight throw.
Winkler will arrive in Tokyo on a roll after dominating the field at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials. He had the top six throws of the night, breaking a 25-year-old American record in the process.
“It’s a bit unbelievable,” Winkler said in a United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee news release. “I would walk out of the circle after throwing 80 (meters) and was saying, ‘This is crazy.’ It felt effortless and it was good to be able to do it repeatedly.”
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