Andrew Evans (born January 25, 1991) is an American

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competes in the discus throw. Born to Lawrence and Laura Evans he grew up in Portage, Michigan. He competed in

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and discus at high school. As a sophomore, 2007, Andrew finished as MI MHSAA D1 State Discus Runner-Up with a throw of 162'5". He also finished as All-State in Shot Put his sophomore year with a throw of 52'10.75". He is two time MHSAA Division 1 State Discus Champion (2008 - 180'8" & 2009 - 182'10") from Portage Northern High School, MI. He finished as State Runner-Up in Shot Put in 2008 - 60'4" - & 2009 - 57'9.75", The PN T&F team finished 2nd in the State of Michigan D1 championship in 2009. Andrew Evans
. UK Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-07-16. He made his international debut at the

2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes under the age of 20 which was held at the Moncton Stadium in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada from 19 to 25 July 2010. A total of 44 athletics ...

, taking tenth place.Andrew Evans
IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-07-16. After a period at

Kalamazoo Valley Community College Kalamazoo Valley Community College is a public community college in Kalamazoo, Michigan Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo ...

he went on to attend the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...

from 2011 and took part in competitions with the

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team. He was the winner of the discus at the

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outdoor championships in 2012 and 2014, finishing runner-up in the interim. At the

NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships The NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship is an annual collegiate outdoor track and field competition for men organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Athlete's individual performances earn points for ...

he was seventh in 2012 and improved to third in 2013. In his final year, he fell back to 14th place, however. Leaving college and turning professional, he entered the

2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships The 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships were held at Hayward Field, University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. Organized by USA Track and Field, the four-day competition took place June 25–28 and served as the national championships in ...

and took third place. He failed to obtain the qualifying standard for the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

, however. Both he and Russ Winger contested the final place at the

2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics The 2015 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships was a regional track and field competition held at the Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica from August 7-9, 2015. It was the second edition of a senior ...

and it ultimately went to Winger, with Evans being the silver medalist at the NACAC meet. He achieved the Olympic standard in April 2016 with a new personal record of . At age 25 he made his first American Olympic team with a third-place finish at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials, finishing behind

Mason Finley Mason Finley (born October 7, 1990), is an American shot putter and discus thrower. He was on the track and field team at the University of Kansas before transferring to the University of Wyoming. He qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in discu ...

and

Tavis Bailey Tavis Bailey (born June 1, 1992) is an American discus thrower. Personal Bailey was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. He attended A.L. Brown High School in Kannapolis, North Carolina. After high school, he received a scholarship to play footbal ...

.2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field - 6/30/2016 to 7/10/2016 Eugene, Oregon Results
USA Track & Field. Retrieved on 2016-07-16.

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