 Marsh at the 2024 United States Olympic trials | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | July 12, 1999 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Erin Marsh (born July 12, 1999) is an American track and field athlete. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2023 Pan American Games. [1]
Marsh attended Buford High School in Buford, Georgia where she competed in track, cross country, and cheerleading, prior to graduating in 2017. She then attended Duke University. [2] [3] [4]
She won the bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 2021 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, behind Tyra Gittens and Anna Hall in Fayetteville, Arkansas in March 2021. [5] She also won the bronze medal behind Hall in the heptathlon at the 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon having amassed 5,929 points in total. [4]
In February 2023, she finished third in the pentathlon at the USA Indoor Championships, held at the Convention Center, Albuquerque. [6] Marsh won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. [7] [8]
After overcoming a succession of injuries at the start of 2024 she recovered to compete at the US Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, in June 2024, and finished twelfth overall in the heptathlon competition. [9]
She finished in eleventh place overall in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, on 1 June 2025. [10] She was runner-up in the heptathlon at the International Meeting of Arona in Spain, the second Gold leg of the World Athletics Combined Events Tour, in June 2025. [11]
Her brother is Major League Baseball player Brandon Marsh, who has played for the Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies as an outfielder. [9] [4]
