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: [211, 170, 62, 226, 153, 238, 16, 158, 205, 142, 24, 221, 112, 89, 148, 159, 121, 296, 147, 118], k=3
Example Output: 226

Example Input: [281, 33, 73, 228, 227, 126, 112, 171, 58, 90, 153, 179, 211, 103, 134, 11, 173, 169, 61, 157], k=8
Example Output: 169

Example Input: [175, 67, 115, 224, 278, 34, 72, 53, 68, 99, 174, 16, 198, 126, 270, 144, 69, 131, 45, 26], k=11
Example Output:
99