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NBC Sports
14-07-2025
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- NBC Sports
Quincy Wilson breaks U18 world record in 400m, takes momentum into USATF Outdoor Champs
American Quincy Wilson broke the U18 world record in the 400m for a fourth time, clocking 44.10 seconds to win at the Murphey Classic in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday. Last summer, Wilson won 4x400m relay gold at age 16 to become the youngest male Olympic track and field medalist in history. He turned 17 on Jan. 8. On Saturday, Wilson lowered his personal best by one tenth of a second. Race video is here. 'I went out there and shot out like a bullet,' he said. On the all-time world U18 list, he is now 74 hundredths faster than the second-fastest junior 400m sprinter in history, fellow American Justin Robinson. Wilson also ranks second on the all-time U20 400m list behind American Steve Lewis, who won the 1988 Olympic title in 43.87 seconds at age 19. For this year, Wilson is the joint-fourth-fastest man in the world across all ages and third among Americans behind Khaleb McRae (43.91) and Jacory Patterson (43.98). The top three men in the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships 400m final on Aug. 2 are in line to make the team individually for the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Several more are expected to make the team for the 4x400m relay pool. The field at USATF Outdoors in Eugene, Oregon, could also include 2024 Olympic gold medalist Quincy Hall, 2025 World Indoor champion Chris Bailey and 2022 World outdoor champion Michael Norman. Wilson, already the youngest American male Olympic track and field athlete in history, can become the youngest American man to compete at a World Outdoor Track and Field Championships, according to Bill Mallon of the OlyMADMen. Nick Zaccardi,
Forbes
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Olympic Star Quincy Wilson Sets New World Under-18 Record Over 400 Meters
PARIS, FRANCE: AUGUST 09: Quincy Wilson of the United States running the first leg in the Men's 4 x ... More 400m Relay Round One Heat One during the Athletics Competition at the Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games on August 9th, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images) Quincy Wilson, the 17-year-old teenage sprint sensation from Potomac, Maryland, continued his ascent up the global pecking order on Saturday at the Ed Murphey Classic in Memphis, Tennessee, clocking a new world under-18 record in the 400 meters in 44.10 seconds. The performance, which bettered Wilson's former U18 best of 44.20 from last year at the Holloway Pro Classic, moved the rising high school senior and Olympic gold medalist to No. 4 in the world at the distance. Wilson, who attends the Bullis School, is inching closer to the outright world U20 record, which stands at 43.87 seconds and last went down in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics from American Steve Lewis, who won the gold medal at the age of 19. 'Staying to my coach's plan and trusting his process,' Wilson told FloTrack afterward. 'I feel like this season is really starting to come upon what I've been working for right now.' Wilson represented the United States last August at the Paris Olympics – becoming the youngest U.S. track and field Olympian ever – and contributed to the men's 4x400 relay, earning his first gold medal when the team placed first in the final. Wilson's star has only risen since then. On Saturday, he even encountered both fans on both sides of the fence (aka hecklers). 'I feel like when it comes with being who I am, the fame and everything has gone up and escalated,' said Wilson, who has 393,000 followers on Instagram. "I'm just thankful for it. Every single part of it. You'll have the goods and you'll have the bad. But those are the things that make Quincy Wilson." The Maryland star, who has yet to determine whether he will compete in college or turn pro, says he's learned to adapt to the price of fame. Quincy Wilson's Season Has Been A Steady Path Forward EUGENE, OREGON - JUNE 21: Quincy Wilson competes in the first round of the men's 400 meter dash on ... More Day One of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field on June 21, 2024 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by) Heading into his outing on Saturday, Wilson last raced three weeks ago at New Balance Nationals Outdoor, a domestic high school championship pitting thousands of the top preps against one another in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wilson, who is repped by New Balance, won his fifth overall championship at the distance between the outdoor and indoor seasons and clocked a time of 45.37 seconds. He also anchored his Bullis School program to another win in the 4x400 relay. But ostensibly, he last made a major impression in April at the Penn Relays when he split 43.99 seconds in the Championship of America 4x400. His anchor performance, which led to a second-place finish against the highly-favored Jamaican program Kingston College, was the fastest split ever recorded at the competition for a high school student. With the U.S. Outdoor Championships approaching at the end of the month, Wilson finds himself in a position to compete for a spot at the World Championships in Tokyo. Last year, he finished fifth at the U.S. Olympic Trials at 400 meters and shined over the three rounds, running times of 44.66, 44.59 and 44.94. His effort on Saturday ranks him third-best in the U.S. over the 2025 campaign. 'We practice like we want to come out here and run a great time every time,' Wilson said. What's Next On The Season For Quincy Wilson The teenager has another three-week block on his schedule before the opening of the men's 400 meter first round at U.S. Outdoors. Wilson said afterward that his goal is to return to training and focused on the mission ahead--wherever that takes him. 'We have to go to the lab and see where things are,' Wilson said. 'And then I'll probably talk to him (Bullis coach Joe Lee) and my coach will give me the final say on what we'll do on this training block.' In the spotlight since the age of 15, Wilson is aware of where his career is taking him. But he continues to say all the right things.
New York Times
13-07-2025
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- New York Times
American teenager Quincy Wilson breaks under-18 400m record for fourth time
Quincy Wilson ran 44.10 seconds for 400m at the Ed Murphey Classic in Memphis to break the under-18 world's best mark for the fourth time. Wilson, who turned 17 this January, beat a field including senior United States athletes Bryce Deadmon and Elija Godwin, both Olympic and World Championship relay medallists. Advertisement 'If you see my races before, I haven't been getting out (of the blocks well),' Wilson told the crowd after. 'My coach has been telling me 'stay on the process, do what we've got to do.' 'I went out there and shot out like a bullet. I'm super thankful and blessed.' He was running in lane five, inside Bahamian Steve Gardiner, who was the 400m individual champion at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Wilson got out so quickly that he was up on Gardiner's shoulder by 80m, though the 29-year-old did pull up before the end of the race. The performance means the teenager now accounts for six of the top 10 fastest times ever run by an under-18, and it moves him up to second on the under-20 all-time list — behind American Steve Lewis, who clocked 43.87s at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul as a 19-year-old. So far in 2025, only Zakithi Nene (43.76s), Khaleb McRae (43.91s) and Jacory Patterson (43.98s) have run faster for 400m than Wilson, who is tied fourth with 2024 Olympic silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith. He is still a high schooler. In February and March he strung together an excellent indoor season, finishing fifth at the US indoor national championships, and became the first athlete to run sub-46s indoors for 400m before turning 18. Wilson clocked 45.66s in Boston at the start of February and then went back there the following month to win the individual title at the high school national championships. He ended that meet by anchoring Bullis to the 4x400m relay gold in a time which bettered their own national record (3:09.44). Wilson anchored them to another national high school record last month at Penn Relays, splitting a 43.99s 400m as the final runner of the quartet. Their combined time was 3:06.31s, breaking a record which had stood for 40 years. US trials for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo start at the end of this month. Wilson became the youngest American male Olympian in track and field last year when he went to the Paris Games as part of the relay squad — he is the youngest male track gold medallist, having led off the men's 4x400m in the heats (heat runners were also given medals even if they did not run in the final itself).
Washington Post
27-06-2025
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- Washington Post
2025 Spring All-Met: Boys' track and field first team, relays, honorable mention
The following student-athletes were selected to The Washington Post's 2025 All-Met team for boys' outdoor track and field: Quincy Wilson, Jr., Bullis Wilson continued shattering records en route to his fourth consecutive Athlete of the Year award between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Wilson won the 400 meters again at New Balance Nationals Outdoor and anchored the Bulldogs' 4x400 relay team to another victory. In April, he ran the fastest 400 split in Penn Relays history (43.99 seconds) and anchored the lineup that broke a 40-year-old national 4x400 record. The gold medalist's best open 400 time was 45.27 seconds, the second fastest in the country during the outdoor season.
NBC Sports
02-06-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Wilson to prioritize education, stay flexible
Quincy Wilson tells Nick Zaccardi why he wanted to see Grand Slam Track Philadelphia, whether he'd want to participate in the series in the future, what he discussed with Michael Johnson, what his future holds, and more.
