The Outdoor Heptagonal Championships at the U.S. Naval Academy this past weekend weekend were the scene of varied success for the Harvard Track teams, with the men finishing in third place, and the women in fourth.

A number of Crimson athletes earned first team all-Ivy honors based on their Heps success, and men’s co-captain Kobie Fuller, junior Chris Lambert and women’s co-captain Nicky Grant all set personal bests as Harvard capped a season-long turnaround.

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The men’s track team finished in third place overall behind Penn and Princeton. That finish was Harvard’s highest in nearly two decades, and was primarily the result of strong performances from five individuals. Juniors D.J. Patterson, Nathan Shenk-Boright and Matt Seidel, along with Lambert and Fuller, were the main contributers to the Crimson’s finish.

“We’re very pleased with our results,” Fuller said of the team’s best placing in Outdoor Heps since 1983.

Fuller finished in first place in the 400-meters with a time of 47.55 seconds, and he beat his personal record in the 200-meters with a time of 21.15. That was good enough for only second place on account of the showing by Lambert, who ran the 200 meters in 20.68. That time would have been a meet record, but the run was ruled wind-aided and therefore ineligible for record consideration.

That performance was supported by another near-meet and school record, this time in the 100-meter. Lambert clocked in at 10.19, but, as before, the wind helped his time and the old record was declared unbroken.

Lambert and Fuller were key components of Harvard’s 4x100 relay team, which finished .06 seconds behind Penn. Along with Lambert and Fuller, senior Shawn Parker and junior Sean Meeker finished with a time of 40.72.