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| Nationality | Jamaican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 November 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Discus throw: 72.01 m (Ramona, 2025) NR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ralford Mullings (born 22 November 2002) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. He won the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships. [1]
He attended Kingston College in his homeland where he was coached by Caniggia Raynor. [2] [3] [4]
He joined Arizona State University in 2021. [5] He then studied at the University of Arkansas. [6] He later transferred to the University of Oklahoma. [7]
He threw a junior personal best distance of 66.16m at the Jamaican U20 championships in Kingston, Jamaica in 2021. [8] He was a World U20 Championships silver medallist in the discus throw in Nairobi in 2021, with a new junior personal best 66.68 metres. [9] [10]
Mullings threw a personal best of 65.39m in April 2022, whilst a freshman at Arizona State University. [11]
He became the NACAC U23 champion in the discus throw in Costa Rica in 2023, with a distance of 61.18 metres. [12]
In April 2024, he threw a personal best distance of 69.67 metres in Oklahoma, it placed him second on the Jamaican all-time list, only behind Fedrick Dacres' 70.78m set in June 2019. [13] He competed in the discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, placing ninth in the final. [14] [15]
He won the discus throw at the 2025 SEC Championships with a throw of 66.48 metres. [16] On 13 June 2025, Mullings threw a meeting record 69.31 meters to win the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon ahead of discus world record holder Mykolas Alekna. [17] [18] [19] He was named men's field athlete of the year at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field National Awards. [20] He won the discus throw at the 2025 Jamaican Athletics Championships on 28 June with a throw of 65.82m. [21] He finished second with 68.98 metres at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic. [22] He set a new national record of 72.01 metres in Ramona at the Oklahoma Throw Series in August 2025. [23] That month, he threw 69.66m to win in the 2025 Diamond League at the 2025 Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium. [24]
