About a month after becoming an NCAA champion, Britton Wilson is a world champion.
The Arkansas sprinter won the gold medal at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, as the third leg of the United States’ 4×400-meter relay team. The group ran a time of 3:17.79.
The win came by nearly a three-second margin. Team Jamaica finished in silver with a time of 3:20.74. Great Brittain was third at 3:22.64.
Wilson’s individual time was the fastest of the four American sprinters. Her split was 49.39 seconds as part of the four-member team, all of whom are current or former SEC track stars. Sydney McLaughlin and Abby Steiner ran at Kentucky and Talitha Diggs is from Florida.