In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

Example Input: [25, 94, 191, 176, 47, 284, 230, 285, 163, 198, 196, 145, 237, 221, 51, 13, 296, 86, 38, 243], k=4
Example Output: 243

Example Input: [100, 154, 127, 273, 78, 40, 163, 203, 252, 155, 216, 108, 205, 257, 156, 20, 178, 266, 145, 107], k=7
Example Output: 203

Example Input: [127, 288, 143, 278, 154, 204, 45, 223, 61, 79, 122, 110, 244, 100, 275, 153, 20, 94, 10, 16], k=16
Example Output:
61