Harrison Foster Williams (born March 7, 1996) is an American
decathlete
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ ...
.
On July 26, 2019, he finished third at the
USA Track and Field Championships in Des Moines with 8188 points, a personal best at the time. As a result, he participated at the
2019 World Athletics Championships
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...
, finishing 14th with 7892 points.
On April 25, 2021, Williams set a new personal best of 8439, making him the 10th best American decathlete in history and the 70th best decathlete ever.
Personal life
Williams graduated from
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
with a B.S. in Product Design in 2019.
International competitions
References
External links
IAAF
1996 births
Living people
American male decathletes
Place of birth missing (living people)
Stanford Cardinal men's track and field athletes
Track and field athletes from Houston
World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
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