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| Birth name | Madelyn Harris | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 November 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Javelin : 60.73 m (Eugene, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Maddie Harris (born 2 November 2000) is an American javelin thrower. She was American national champion in 2023 and a bronze medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games. [1]
From Missouri, she attended Lee's Summit West High School. As well as track and field, she competed in Softball in high school. [2]
She won the javelin throw at the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in July 2023 in Eugene, Oregon, with a personal best throw of 60.73 metres. [3] [4] Later that year, she won the bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile with a distance of 60.06 m, behind Colombian Flor Ruiz and Rhema Otabor of the Bahamas. [5] [6]
Competing for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, she won the Big Ten Championships in Eugene in May 2025 with a throw of 58.38 metres. [7] The following month, she finished in fifth place at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, with a throw of 58.36 metres. [8] [9] She then also placed fifth overall in the javelin throw at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene with a throw of 55.17 metres. [10]
