Elijah Kosiba

Elijah Mattix Kosiba

Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(2002-04-03) April 3, 2002 (age 23)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.30 (Allendale, 2024)

Elijah Mattix Kosiba (born 3 April 2002) is an American high jumper. He was runner-up at the 2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. ^[1]

Early life

He attended Rensselaer Central High School in Indiana and Grand Valley State University, Michigan. ^{[2] [3]}

Career

He finished fourth at the US Track and Field Championships in 2023. ^{[4] [5]} He competed at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago. ^{[6] [7]}

Competing in Allendale, Michigan in December 2024, he tied the NCAA DII men’s indoor high jump record set in 2007, with a personal best 2.30 metres clearance. ^[8]

He was runner-up at the 2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in New York, on 23 February 2025. ^[9] He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he finished in fourth place overall on countback as one of four athletes who cleared 2.28 metres, including silver and bronze medalists Hamish Kerr and Ratmond Richards. ^{[10] [11]} He placed seventh at the 2025 Memorial Van Damme in the 2025 Diamond League, in Brussels, Belgium, in August 2025. ^[12]

References

1. "Elijah Kosiba". World Athletics. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
2. "Eli Kosiba competes for Team USA in the Pan American Games". wlfi.com. 29 Oct 2023. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
3. "GVSU's Eli Kosiba receives votes for the Bowerman Preseason Watch List". gliac.org. 9 January 2025. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
4. "ELI KOSIBA 4TH PLACE MEN'S HIGH JUMP - TOYOTA USATF OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023". Runnerspace. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
5. Bregman, Scott (7 July 2003). "USA Track and Field Championships 2023: All final results - complete list". Olympics.com. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
6. "Pan American Games Santiago 2023 - Day 5 Results". Track Alerts. 5 November 2023. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
7. "Kosiba invited to join USA's Pan Am track team". newsbug.info. 18 Oct 2023. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
8. Pinto, Simone (Dec 7, 2024). "Track and Field Star Shatters 18-Year-Old NCAA Record to Wash Off This Year's Failure". Essentially Sports. Retrieved 24 Feb 2025.
9. Davern, John (23 Feb 2025). "2025 USATF Indoor Track And Field Championship: Recap And Highlights". Flo Track. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
10. "Woo regains world indoor high jump title in Nanjing". World Athletics. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
11. Hall, Dan (14 March 2025). "USATF Announces 56 Athletes For Team USA At 2025 World Indoor Championships". Flotrack. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
12. "Results - Brussels Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 22 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.