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2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track And Field Championships
The 2024 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships was the 102nd NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 42nd NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on the campus of the University of Oregon. 42 events (21 men's and 21 women's) were contested from Wednesday, June 5 until Saturday, June 8, starting with the men's decathlon and ending with the women's relay. Men's events were held Wednesday and Friday, and women's events were held Thursday and Saturday, with the exception of the men's decathlon which extended from Wednesday into Thursday and the women's heptathlon which began Friday and ended Saturday. '' |
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie River (Oregon), McKenzie and Willamette River, Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast. The List of cities in Oregon, second-most populous city in Oregon, Eugene had a population of 176,654 as of the 2020 United States census and it covers city area of . The Eugene-Springfield, OR MSA, Eugene-Springfield metropolitan statistical area is the second largest in Oregon after Portland, Oregon, Portland. In 2022, Eugene's population was estimated to have reached 179,887. Eugene is home to the University of Oregon, Bushnell University, and Lane Community College. The city is noted for its natural environment, recreational opportunities (especially Cycling, bicycling, running/jogging, rafting, and kayaking), and focus on the arts, along with its history of civil unrest, riots, and green activism. Eug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Favour Ashe
Favour Ashe (born 28 April 2002) is a Nigerian sprinter, currently competing for the University of Oregon. Career College career Ashe attended Otovwodo Grammar School in Ughelli, Nigeria before enrolling as a student at the University of Tennessee. Having only arrived in America in January 2022, Ashe came third in the men's 60-meter dash at the 2022 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, and was runner up in the 100 metres at the 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. He also came fourth in the 4 x 100m relay running with Wayne Pinnock, Carey McLeod and Emmanuel Bynum. In 2022 Ashe ran the fastest time in history by any Nigerian athlete in all conditions, running a wind assisted 9.79s (+3.0) 100m heat at the LSU invitational meet in Baton Rouge. Following the 2022 collegiate season, he transferred to Auburn University to continue his studies and athletic career. In June 2023 he set a new personal best running 9.96s in the 100m at the NCAA Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Christopher Morales-Williams
Christopher Morales Williams (born 5 August 2004) is a Canadian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. Since 2022, he has competed for the University of Georgia Bulldogs. On February 24, 2024, as a sophomore, he set an unofficial world indoor record in the 400 m of 44.49 at the SEC Championships held in Fayetteville. He then set a new Canadian record in the 400m at the 2024 Outdoor SEC Championships on May 11 with a time of 44.05. Early and personal life Williams was born in Vaughan, Ontario to parents Raul Morales and Tania Morales Williams. He has two siblings: Nicolas and Alexandra. He attended St. Elizabeth Catholic High School where he graduated in 2022. He missed two years of high school track training and competition when schools were shut during the pandemic, substituting daily solo long-distance runs for training, working up to 12 kilometres. He majors in Ecology at the University of Georgia. High School career 2019 Morales-Williams was the number one sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jamarion Stubbs
Jamarion Demontrez Sharp (born August 26, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Texas Legends of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for John A. Logan College, Western Kentucky, and Ole Miss. At , he was one of the tallest Division I players ever and is the tallest active NBA player. He is also one of the tallest living humans. Early life Sharp was born on August 26, 2001, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. His father, Mario Sharp, was and his mother, Shiby Watkins, was . He admits that "growing up, edidn’t love the game of basketball". Sharp's future high school coach, Tim Haworth, who knew him since he was five years old, encouraged him to play. Sharp had a growth spurt the summer after middle school and came into Hopkinsville High School as a freshman. He grew to by his junior year and became a seven-footer as a senior. He played basketball for the Tigers, where he appeared in the KHSAA Sweet Sixteen state tournament as a sophomore. As a junio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Makanakaishe Charamba
Makanakaishe Charamba (born 20 December 2001) is a Zimbabwean sprinter. He reached the final of the 200 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Early life From Harare, Zimbabwe he went to high school at Kutama College, where his principal focus was initially on playing rugby and hockey. He later attended Hillcrest College. He was the Confederation of School Sport of Southern Africa (COSSASA) 100m champion in 2018, Manicaland provincial 100m and 200m champion from 2018 to 2020. Makanaka’s father is George Charamba who is the current Press Secretary for the President of Zimbabwe. Career At Carson-Newman University, he was named the 2022 SAC Men’s Track & Field Freshman of the Year and the 2022 SAC Outdoor Championship Athlete of the Meet in May 2022. In his freshman year he ran a school record 200 metres time of 20.41 seconds at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and he was named the USTFCCCA Southeast Region Male Track Athlete of the Year. The following year he won the men' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tarsis Orogot
Tarsis Gracious Orogot (born 24 November 2002 in Aukot Gweri Soroti district) is an Olympic Ugandan sprinter. Orogot gained his first experience at international championships in 2021, when he finished fourth in the 200 meter dash at the U20 World Championships in Nairobi in 20.57 s and set a Ugandan national record in the semifinals with 20.37 s. He also reached the semifinals in the 100m, where he was eliminated with a time of 10.37s. He represented Uganda at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Orogot is the first Male Ugandan Sprinter in history to compete in the 200m at any World Athletics Championships. In 2023, running for the University of Alabama, he ran 20.17 for 200m indoors to set a world-leading mark in Albuquerque. This mark is a Ugandan record. And he later became the first East African in history to break the 20 second barrier in the 200m in a time of 19.94 (+0.4) at the 2023 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS. He set a new national record running 19.75 s for the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robert Gregory (sprinter)
Robert Gregory (born 12 December 2001) is an American track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. Early life From Houston, Texas, Gregory is from a family of track athletes. He attended Wheatley High School where he played as a defensive back in American football as well as competing in athletics. He trained as a member of Greater Houston Track Club and initially attended Texas Christian University before transferring to the University of Florida. Career Gregory was runner up at the 2022 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships over 60 metres. He won the SEC 200m title in 20.12 seconds, in Baton Rouge in May 2023. At the 2023 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held in Austin, Texas in June 2023, Gregory set a new personal best for the 200m, running 19.89 to finish fourth in the final. Competing at the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, in Eugene, Oregon, Gregory ran 19.90 in the final of the 200m, the fastest-ever time for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cheickna Traore
Cheickna Traore (born 21 October 2000) is an Ivorian sprinter. In 2024, he became the Ivorian national record holder over 200 metres. Early life He was born in the Ivory Coast but moved to the United States when he was five years old. From 2015 he attended Innovation High School and Henry Snyder High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. He then attended Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey and earned his bachelor's degree. After graduation from Ramapo, he enrolled at Penn State University. Career Running for Ramapo College, Traore set two NCAA Division III records in the 200m and ran the third-fastest 100m in division history. In his first indoor season at Penn State in 2024, he won Big Ten titles in the 60m, 200m and 4x400 and had a second-place finish in the 200m at the NCAA Indoor Championships with an indoor career best of 20.30. He won gold in the 200 metres running for the Ivory Coast at the 2023 Francophone Games in Kinshasa in August 2023. At the same championship he als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lance Lang
The English term lance is derived, via Middle English ''launce'' and Old French '' lance'', from the Latin '' lancea'', a generic term meaning a wikt:lancea#Noun">lancea'', a generic term meaning a spear">wikt:lancea#Noun">lancea'', a generic term meaning a spear or javelin employed by both infantry">spear or javelin">spear">wikt:lancea#Noun">lancea'', a generic term meaning a spear or javelin employed by both infantry and cavalry, with English initially keeping these generic meanings. It developed later into a term for spear-like weapons specially designed and modified to be part of a "weapon system" for use couched under the arm during a charge, being equipped with special features such as grappers to engage with lance rests attached to breastplates, and vamplates, small circular plates designed to prevent the hand sliding up the shaft upon impact. These specific features were in use by the beginning of the late 14th century. Though best known as a military and sporting weap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Zachaeus Beard
''Zachaeus'' is a genus of harvestmen in the family Phalangiidae. Species * ''Zachaeus anatolicus'' (Kulczynski, 1903) * ''Zachaeus birulae'' Redikorzev, 1936 * ''Zachaeus crista'' (Brullé, 1832) * ''Zachaeus hebraicus'' (Simon, 1884) * ''Zachaeus hyrcanus'' Redikorzev, 1936 * ''Zachaeus kervillei'' (Sørensen, 1912) * ''Zachaeus leucomelas'' (Simon, 1884) * ''Zachaeus mirabilis'' (Caporiacco, 1949) * ''Zachaeus orchimonti'' (Giltay, 1933) * ''Zachaeus redikorzevi'' (V. Starenga & B. P. Chevrizov, 1978) References Harvestmen Harvestman genera {{Opiliones-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shaun Maswanganyi
Phatutshedzo “Shaun” Maswanganyi (born 1 February 2001) is a South African track and field athlete. He won silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics as part of South Africa's 4 x 100 metres relay team. Personal life Born in Soweto, he attended St Alban’s College in Pretoria. He started a finance degree at the University of Houston in 2019. Career At the 2019 African U18 and U20 Championships in Athletics held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, he won the silver medal in the 100 metres and the gold medal in the 200 metres. He’s the current South African 60m Indoor U20 National Record holder (6.65) and current South African U20 National 100m record holder (10.06). In The American Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Maswanganyi ran the 100m in 9.87 seconds which would have been a new South African senior record had it not been wind assisted. He won gold in the 200m running a wind assisted 19.93 seconds. On 31 May 2021 he secured a double qualification for both the 100m and 200m events for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wanya McCoy
Wanyá McCoy (born 29 March 2003) is a Bahamian sprinter from the Berry Islands. Early life and education Born to parents Sandra and Sergio, McCoy is originally from Bullock's Harbour, Berry Islands. He has several siblings, including brother Malachi, who plays basketball. Upon moving to Nassau, McCoy attended Doris Johnson High School and then Queen's College High School. He was initially a basketball player before switching to track. He went on to compete for Clemson University before transferring to University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ..., where he studies educational science. Personal bests References External links * Wanya McCoy Clemson Profile 2003 births Living people Bahamian male sprinters 21st-century Bahamian sportsmen Clem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
