USA Track & Field | USA Track & Field Announces 120-Athlete Roster for Paris Olympics

INDIANAPOLIS — Less than a month before track and field competition begins at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris, USATF has named a roster of more than 100 athletes who will compete at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.

The USATF team has dominated the medal table at the last two World Athletics Championships, winning 33 medals in total at Oregon22 and 29 last summer in Budapest, including 12 gold. U.S. athletes also topped the medal table at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, winning 26 medals, including seven gold.

Four reigning Olympic champions lead the U.S. list, with the two-time shot put gold medalist and world record holder Ryan Crouser leading the men’s team and holding the world record in the 400 hurdles Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone She has just broken her fifth world record and is ranked first among female competitors. Katie Moon is the reigning women’s pole vault champion, and Valerie Allman will seek a second consecutive gold medal in the women’s discus throw.

At last year’s World Championships in Budapest, Noah Lyles He won the men’s 100 and 200 and helped the United States win the 4×100 relay. He is again favored to top the podium in both individual events and will be a key player in the relay. The other individual gold medalists from Budapest who are traveling to Paris are Crouser and Moon, as well as the women’s 100 champion Sha’Carri Richardson. Richardson won bronze in the 200 and helped Team USATF win gold in the 4×100.

Grant Holloway is a three-time world champion in the men’s 110m hurdles, a silver medalist in Tokyo, and his victory in 12.86 seconds at the Eugene Olympic qualifier may have set the stage for his first Olympic gold medal. Winner of the last two world titles in the women’s shot put, Chase Jackson is the American record holder and is aiming for gold in her Olympic debut.

Other medallists returning from Tokyo include the American record holder in the men’s 400m hurdles. Ray Benjaminwho set a record time of 46.17 for the silver medal in the historic Tokyo race. Benjamin clocked a world record time of 46.46 to win the trials. Sprint stars Fred Kerley And Kenny Bednarek are also gold medal contenders in the 100 and 200. Kerley won the world 100 title at Oregon22, while Bednarek lowered his 200 personal best to 19.59 at the trials and took silver at Oregon22.

Complete field competition Joe Kovacs And Chris Nilsen Kovacs has extensive international experience and has two world titles to his name. Holder of the world’s best mark in the men’s shot put this year at 23.13, Kovacs won two Olympic silver medals at Rio 2016 and Tokyo, and is the second-best thrower in history behind Crouser. Nilsen won silver in the pole vault at Tokyo and Oregon22. A stalwart of the women’s shot put Raven Saunders won silver in Tokyo and placed fifth in Rio in 2016.

Gabby Thomas She won silver in the women’s 200 in Budapest last fall and bronze in Tokyo. She has the world’s fastest time this year, a 21.78 in the semifinals of the trials, and her PB of 21.60 makes her the second-fastest American woman of all time and fourth in the world rankings as the world’s all-time best swimmer.

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