Xavier Carter secures 100m and 400m titles

Xavier Carter can claim a performance that rivals none other than Jesse Owens.

The LSU sophomore became the first person to win the 100m and 400m at the US college track and field championships on Saturday, running down the competition in races just 31 minutes apart.

He finished his day as the anchor of the winning 1,600m relay team. Combined with the winning 400m relay team the previous night, he had a share of four NCAA event titles.

According to meet officials, Carter is the first to achieve four NCAA victories since none other than Owens won both short sprints, the 220-yard low hurdles and long jump for Ohio State in 1935 and 1936.

"It's really not going to hit me until a few weeks later," Carter said. "Jesse Owens, he's a legend. He's the one who started track and field. I feel honored just being put in the same sentence as Jesse Owens."

The 1.9m, 86kg who also plays football for the Tigers, had personal bests in both individual events -- a school-record 10.09 seconds in the 100m, followed by a 44.53 in the 400m.

"I pretty much had a good day," he said.

Carter's magnificent one-man show wasn't enough to prevent deep and talented Florida State from winning its first men's team title with 67 points. LSU was second with 51 -- 40 of them thanks to Carter. Texas was third with 36.