 Grace Stark at the 2018 Youth Summer Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Born | May 6, 2001 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Hurdles |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 60m hurdles: 7.78 (Birmingham, 2022) 100m hurdles: 12.31 (Eugene, 2024) |
Grace Stark (born May 6, 2001) is an American hurdler. [1]
From White Lake, Michigan, she attended Lakeland High School. As a junior in 2018, she won MHSAA Division 1 state championship titles over 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles. In the hurdles she ran the fastest time ever recorded by a Michigan high school athlete. [2] [3] She attended the University of Florida. [4]
Stark won the NCAA Indoor 60m hurdles title in 2022, having run a personal best 7.83 seconds in the heats and lowering it to 7.78 in the final. [5] This time equalled the collegiate record set by Brianna Rollins in 2013. [6] She missed competition time due to a broken leg sustained at the SEC Outdoor Championships in 2022. [7]
Stark went undefeated competing outdoors in the college season in 2024, [8] culminating with the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor 100m hurdles title in June 2024. [9] That month, she qualified for the final of the US Olympic Trials. [10] In the final, she finished third in a personal best time of 12.31 seconds to earn a place on the US team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [11]
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