The USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships is an annual track and field competition organized by USA Track & Field, which serves as the American national championships for the sport. Since the year 1992, in the years which feature a Summer Olympics, World Athletics Championships, Pan American Games, NACAC Championships, or an IAAF Continental Cup, the championships serve as a way of selecting the best athletes for those competitions.
The Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais also called Meeting International de Liévin is an annual indoor track and field competition which takes place in February at Arena Stade Couvert in Liévin, France. It is one of the events of the World Athletics Indoor Tour organised by World Athletics.
Athing Mu is an American middle-distance runner. She is the youngest woman in history to hold Olympic and world titles in an individual track and field event. At the age of 19, Mu won the gold medal in the 800 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, breaking a national record set by Ajeé Wilson in 2017, and a continental under-20 record. She took a second gold as part of the women's 4 × 400 m relay. She was the 800 m 2022 World champion, becoming the first American woman to win the world championship title over the distance.
Mary Moraa is a Kenyan athlete who specialises in the 800 metres. She won the gold medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, a bronze medal in the event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and a gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Keely Nicole Hodgkinson is an English middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The following table is an overview of national records in the 200 metres.
Michaela Rose is an American track and field athlete. Rose set a US collegiate indoor track record in 2024 over 600 yards.
Fiona O'Keeffe is an American long-distance runner. She is best known for winning the 2024 United States Olympic Marathon Trials in her marathon debut, qualifying her for the 2024 Paris Olympics where she did not finish (DNF).
Caisa-Marie Lindfors is a Swedish discus thrower. She is a multiple-time Swedish Athletics Championships winner and has represented Sweden at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
Saron Berhe Tareke is an Ethiopian middle-distance runner. She is the world under-18 record-holder in the short track 1500 metres and mile run with a mile time of 4:24.23.
Winnie Jemutai Boinett is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner as well as a steeplechase runner. She was the bronze medallist in the 1500 m at the 2021 World U20 Championships, and in 2023 she returned to racing setting the #3 all-time mark in the outdoor 2000 metres steeplechase.
Makenzie Dunmore is an American sprinter. Running for the Oregon Ducks and South Carolina Gamecocks, she won two NCAA Division I championship titles in relays and finished 6th individually at the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships over 400 metres.
Juliette Whittaker is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres. She is a two-time NCAA 800 m champion and qualified to represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Kortnei LeAnn Johnson is an American sprinter. Running for the LSU Lady Tigers track and field program, she won two NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships relay titles and set the world under-23 record in the 4 × 100 metres relay in 2018. She represented the United States at the 2023 Pan American Games.
Ahmed Jaziri is a Tunisian steeplechase runner specializing in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He won the 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships steeplechase, becoming the first Eastern Kentucky Colonels individual track and field champion. He is the current Tunisian record holder in the short track mile run, 3000 metres, and 5000 metres.
Dylan Beard is an American hurdler specializing in the 110 metres hurdles. He was notable for winning the 2024 Millrose Games 60 m hurdles while being unsponsored and working as a Walmart deli employee.
Sheena Gooding is a Bajan middle-distance runner specializing in the 800 metres. She is a three-time Athletics Association of Barbados national champion in the event and she has represented Barbados at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Alex Chesiro Masai is a Kenyan long-distance runner based in the United States. After initially specializing in the 5000 metres, he debuted in the marathon in 2024 to finish 9th at the 2024 Chicago Marathon. He is the brother of Olympians Moses Masai and Linet Masai, and he finished 6th at the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 5000 m.
Anna Raynor Marbry is an American former javelin thrower, high jumper, and hurdler. She won the silver medal in the javelin at the 2007 NACAC Championships in Athletics, and she finished 3rd at the 2007 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Carly Muscaro is an American former sprinter and middle-distance runner specializing in the 400 metres. She is a multiple-time NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships winner and competed at the 2016 United States Olympic trials.
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