NATIONAL CHAMPION: Auburn’s Kayinsola Ajayi wins the 60-meter dash title at NCAA Indoor Championships
See the final results and watch Ajayi's electric run here.
Ajayi has done it.
Auburn junior sprinter Kayinsola Ajayi won the men’s 60-meter dash at the NCAA Indoor Championships on Saturday in College Station, matching his personal best and NCAA-record time of 6.45 seconds in finals.
Teammate Israel Okon scored in the finals, finishing fifth.
The final results are here:
Ajayi matched the searing 6.45 seconds that he ran to win the title at SEC Indoors two weeks ago. That mark matched the NCAA record: He became the fourth man to run the time and tie for the record time. It’s also the fastest time ever recorded by a Nigerian, and 6.45 also matches the fastest time recorded by an African.
Watch the final here:
Ajayi becomes the fourth Auburn men’s sprinter to win the indoor sprint championship in school history, and the first in 29 years:
Auburn athletes to win the NCAA indoor sprint championship
Clifford Outlin, 1974
Harvey Glance, 1976
Bryan Howard*, 1997
Kayinsola Ajayi, 2026
* 55 meters instead of 60, which the NCAA ran from 1984-1999
It’s Ajayi’s first individual national championship won by Ajayi at Auburn, but second overall: He was a part of Auburn’s national-championship-winning 4x100 relay team that won at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2024.
He won silver in the indoor 60-meter dash last season and won silver again in the outdoor 100-meter dash.