OHSAA weather delay update for track & field state championships comes with rough forecast
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The Ohio track & field state championships are taking place over four days for the first time this year due to the expanded divisions.
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The schedule is about to get wacky due to a weather delay on Saturday morning, the third day of the meet. The forecast doesn't look good, either.
The meet went into an official delay about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, a day in which Divisions 3, 2 and 1 were all slated to hold some portions of their competition.
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OHSAA track weather delay update
1 p.m. UPDATE: Gates are slated to re-open at 1 p.m., with action slated to resume at 1:30 p.m.
The initial news came from this OHSAA post just before noon on Saturday:
🏃🏃♀️#OHSAA TRACK AND FIELD: We have entered a weather delay during the Division I preliminaries at the 2026 OHSAA Track and Field State Championships.
— OHSAA Sports (@OHSAASports) June 6, 2026
Updates will be provided for the projected time that the meet will resume. pic.twitter.com/azy0ZGew1R
That account should share updated resumption plans as the day goes along.
OHSAA track weather forecast in Columbus
As of 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, this is the hourly forecast via Accuweather:
- 12 noon: Thunderstorms (55% chance of precipitation)
- 1 p.m.: Thunderstorms (47%)
- 2 p.m.: Intermittent clouds (40%)
- 3 p.m.: Intermittent clouds (34%)
- 4 p.m.: Intermittent clouds (39%)
- 5 p.m.: Intermittent clouds (49%)
- 6 p.m.: Intermittent clouds (49%)
- 7 p.m.: Mostly cloudy w/t-storms (61%)
- 8 p.m.: Mostly cloudy (40%)
- 9 p.m.: Mostly cloudy (34%)
- 10 p.m.: Mostly cloudy (40%)
- 11 p.m.: Thunderstorms (62%)
It'll be tough to get all of Saturday's planned action in if the forecast holds.