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Quincy Wilson summed up winning Olympic gold and being 16 years old with 1 perfect tweet

This really does sum it up.

Quincy Wilson is one of the best stories of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

He’s just 16 years old and made history as the youngest men’s track and field athlete in U.S. Olympics history. He ended up winning gold by competing in the heats for the 4×400 relay, even though he wasn’t on the squad that ran the final.

But the kid had a reality check, as he noted on X (formerly Twitter).

“Dang, I really got school in 2 and a half weeks,” he wrote as he showed off his gold medal. That’s just amazing when you think about it and sums it all up.

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Team USA 4×400 victory makes Quincy Wilson youngest male track Olympic gold medalist

Quincy Wilson, who raced in the Team USA 4×400 preliminaries, became the youngest male track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold medal.

Quincy Wilson wrapped up his summer break from Bullis School (Potomac, Md.) in a way that rewrote history books: With the Team USA 4×400 men’s victory in the finals on Saturday, Wilson became the youngest male athlete to win a gold medal in a track and field event, according to MaxPreps.

Wilson, who ran a disappointing 47.27-second lap in the preliminaries, watched from the stands as his United States teammates raced for victory in the finals. Three of the four runners were below 44 seconds, with Rai Benjamin anchoring and setting the best mark at 43.18 seconds to close out the victory. See the final lap below:

Team USA, whose time of 2:54.43 is a new Olympic record, defeated silver medalist Botswana (2:54.53) and bronze Great Britain (2:55.83). For the third year in a row, both the U.S. men’s and women’s 4×400 teams won the gold medals (the women’s team has won eight straight, per USA TODAY).

Vernon Norwood, who posted a time of 43.26 as the second leg and was vital in helping the U.S. regain its position in the preliminaries, told ESPN he ran for Wilson.

“I wanted to run for Quincy,” Norwood said, “because he put out a significant amount of effort for us [Friday] and that gave me a lot of motivation to try to do my best out there.”

USA has the gold and Wilson goes back to Maryland, where he’s set to start his junior year of college with a gold medal around his neck.

While he didn’t compete in the finals, this experience will bode well for the rest of his high school career and Olympic hopes for the future.

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16-year-old Quincy Wilson makes history after U.S. gold in 4×400 relays

What a summer for the Maryland high schooler.

On Friday, 16-year-old Quincy Wilson made history as he became the youngest male track and field athlete to compete in the Olympics. The sophomore at Maryland’s Bullis School ran the first leg of the 4×400 relay, helping the men’s team qualify for Saturday’s finals.

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One day later, he’s an Olympic gold medalist. The U.S. relay team of Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin set a new Olympic Record in the event with a 2:54.43. As a member of the team, Wilson gets to take home the hardware, too.

In the stands, Wilson was understandably elated.

Congrats to Team U.S.A., and Wilson has quite the story for his friends back in Maryland when school starts back up.

Quincy Wilson: Rough leg in Olympic sprint is ‘going to be motivation for me’

Quincy Wilson became the youngest USA male to compete in track at the Olympics, but his first run didn’t go as planned.

The USA men’s 4×400-meter relay team managed to qualify in the opening round on Friday by finishing third, but the first leg run by 16-year-old Quincy Wilson put them at a disadvantage over the final three laps.

The youngest American male to ever compete in a track event at the Olympics, Wilson said his seventh-place finish on the first leg will be something he keeps in mind moving forward.

“It’s going to be motivation for me,” Wilson said to ESPN about his race.

Wilson ran a 47.27-second 400m lap, well below the sub-45 times of 44.66 and 44.59 seconds in the qualifiers that broke U18 records and placed him in the relay pool.

Vernon Norwood took the baton and ran a blazing 43.54 time, moving the U.S. a spot and putting them back into the running for qualification. Bryce Deadmon ran his heat in 44.20 and Christopher Bailey anchored at 44.14 to get third place.

Despite Wilson’s slow start, Norwood said he was impressed by Wilson making history in competing.

“Honestly, I was kind of in the moment, because I’m watching a 16-year-old run an Olympics, making history,” Norwood told ESPN. “So I was very proud of him, and I’m just looking at him like, ‘Oh, snap back in and let me get this thing going.'”

Wilson credited his teammates.

“They got me around the track,” Wilson said. “My grit and determination got me around the track. I knew I had a great three legs behind me. I knew it wasn’t just myself [Friday], because if it was myself, we would be in last place.”

In placing third in the heat, Team USA automatically qualified for the next round. See the results here.

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16-year-old Olympian Quincy Wilson posts pictures with LeBron, Steph, other stars

Quincy Wilson, a 16-year-old Team USA track athlete, posted pictures from Paris with NBA players he has spent his life watching.

Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old track star who took the country by storm and made the Olympics this year, is meeting some of the professional athletes he has spent his life watching.

Wilson, born Jan. 8, 2008, posted pictures to X from the Opening Ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics with men’s basketball players LeBron James, Steph Curry and Anthony Edwards. On Instagram, he shared more with Anthony Davis and tennis star Coco Gauff.

For context of how those NBA players have shaped Wilson’s NBA viewing experience: James has been in the league for longer than Wilson has been alive. LeBron debuted with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003, more than four years before the birth of Wilson.

Curry played his first game for the Golden State Warriors in 2009, when Wilson was just under two years old. Davis debuted for the New Orleans Pelicans in 2012, when Wilson was four.

And Edwards, while still an up-and-coming superstar in the NBA, debuted in 2020 — when Wilson was 12.

By comparison, Wilson is the youngest male athlete on Team USA.

To qualify for the Games, Wilson broke the U18 400-meter record twice with times of 44.84 and 44.59 in the preliminary round and semifinals, respectively. He finished sixth in the final round, failing to qualify for the individual race but enough to keep his name in the running for the 4×400 relay pool.

Now in Paris, Wilson is getting his first taste of the Games. Perhaps LeBron and Davis, who won gold with Team USA in 2008 (James) and 2012 (both), can give him some tips to ensure it isn’t his last.

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Olympic sprinting legend compliments Quincy Wilson after newest record

Quincy Wilson set a new record with a 44.20-second run at the Holloway Pro Classic, prompting Michael Johnson to compliment his skill.

If anybody in the world knows talent in the 400-meter races, it’s Michael Johnson, a four-time gold medalist at the Olympics and an eight-time winner of the World Championships gold medal. After the latest record set by teenager Quincy Wilson, Johnson has seen enough.

“I haven’t commented on this kid. Because typically it leads to predictions of his future, and people don’t understand it’s more complex than simply ‘so fast so young = really fast older,'” Johnson posted onto social media platform X. “It’s not that simple.”

That was until Friday when Wilson set a U18 400-meter world record with a 44.20 run at the Holloway Pro Classic in Florida.

“But now I must speak,” Johnson continued in the same post. “GOD DAMN!!! This kid is impressive!”

See his quote-tweet of the race here:

Wilson has been well-regarded in track and field for some time but proved his potential this year after starting with a personal best of 45.87, according to LetsRun.com. He has now set a new personal record seven times this year, including twice in the Olympic qualifiers. While he did not qualify for an individual race, Wilson is part of the men’s relay pool.

With his performances, the 16-year-old has captured the attention of legends. This time, it’s Johnson, who became the only male to win gold in both the 200- and 400-meter races in the same Olympics when he blistered the field in the 1996 Atlanta Games and then defended his 400-meter championship in the 2000 Sydney Games.

The world will be watching as the 2024 Paris Olympics begin with the youngest-ever U.S. male track Olympian serving as one of the six runners in the pool for the 4×400 team.

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High school star sprinter Quincy Wilson is heading to the Olympics

Teenager Quincy Wilson is heading the Olympics.

Quincy Wilson, a 16-year-old sprinter from Maryland, has made the United States Olympic team for this summer’s games in Paris.

He isn’t eligible in his home state of Maryland for his full driver’s license yet, but Wilson is nonetheless part of the pool for the United States’ 4x400m relay team. A tremendous weekend at the United States Olympic Track and Field finals has propelled Wilson into the Paris games.

Wilson, who set the U18 United States record in the 400m over the weekend, was notified on Sunday that he is part of the relay pool. In Sunday’s finals, Wilson ran an impressive 44.94 that saw the teenager finish sixth.

His 44.59 time on Saturday in the 400m set the U18 400m national record.

 

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Following Sunday’s performance, Wilson spoke with the media about his weekend of performances.

“All I know is I gave it everything I had, and I can’t be disappointed,” Wilson said to reporters.

“At the end of the day, I’m 16 running grown man times.”

Wilson runs his high school track for the Bullis School (Potomac, Maryland).

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‘I can’t go back and be disappointed’: Quincy Wilson falls short in 400m finals but Paris remains possible

Quincy Wilson broke the 45-second mark again in the 400m but finished six in the finals, falling just shy of qualifying for the Olympics.

Sixteen-year-old track and field star Quincy Wilson beat the 45-second mark in the 400-meter race for the third run in a row during these Olympic Trials, but his time of 44.94 wasn’t quite fast enough to etch himself in the history books by qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Wilson finished in sixth place, ending a run in which he wowed the world by breaking a 42-year-old record twice.

“I can’t go back and be disappointed. At the end of the day, I’m 16 running grown-man times,” he said to reporters after the race.

Wilson, an incoming junior at Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, ran times of 44.84 and 44.59 in the preliminary round and semifinals prior to the run on Monday evening.

Quincy Hall, 25, won the 400m with a time of 44.17 seconds. Michael Norman, 26, placed second at 44.41 seconds and Chris Bailey, 24, finished third at 44.42 seconds, according to the Register Guard.

Despite falling shy in the 400m, Wilson still has a chance to become the youngest American man ever to compete in a track and field event in the Olympics. USA Track & Field can choose two more runners for the 4×400 relay team, according to the Washington Post, and with his performances both in the Trials and runs at his high school, Wilson has proven his talent.

The current mark has been in place for 124 years, when, in 1900, 17-year-and-166-day athlete Arthur Newton ran the 2,500-meter steeplechase, per the WaPo.

16-year-old Olympic hopeful Quincy Wilson just broke his own record he set 2 days ago

Two days after breaking the world U18 and American high school records in the 400m in the Olympic Trials, Quincy Wilson broke both records again.

On Friday, Quincy Wilson announced he’s racing with the “big dogs” after breaking the world U18 and American high school records in the 400-meter dash in the Olympic Trials.

On Sunday, the 16-year-old broke his own record.

Wilson, competing in the semifinals, ran a 44.59 in the 400m, eclipsing his previous mark of 44.84 seconds. In doing so, he qualified for the finals in Eugene, Oregon, and is now one race away from reaching the Olympics before he reaches his junior year of high school.

The Bullis School (Potomac, Md.) star finished third in the semifinal race, putting on a burst at the end to do so. His finish helped him secure a spot in the finals.

If Wilson can reach the Paris Olympics, he’ll be an Olympian before getting his driver’s license. He told reporters that he recently turned 16 and, because he needs to take a three-week class to learn to drive, joked that he wouldn’t be able to complete it any time if he qualifies for the Games.

The men’s 400-meter final is scheduled for Monday at 9:59 p.m. Eastern Time and will be aired on NBC.

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‘I’m running with the big dogs:’ 16-year-old Quincy Wilson sets record at Olympic Trials

Quincy Wilson, a 16-year-old Maryland high school track phenom, set an 18U world record and American high school record in the 400m at the Olympic Trials.

After putting the high school track and field scene on notice as a freshman and sophomore as he thundered to first-place finishes in dozens of events, Quincy Wilson set his sights on the Olympics.

The 16-year-old has a legitimate chance to reach Paris after his 400-meter dash at the Olympic Trials on Friday.

Wilson, entering his junior year at Bullis High School (Potomac, Md.), set world U18 and American high school records in the trials in Eugene, Oregon, running his 400-meter heat in 44.66 seconds.

He broke the world record of 44.84 seconds that had been set five years ago and a U.S. high school record that had stood for 42 years by 0.03 seconds, according to the Washington Post. In clearing the 45-second mark, he set a new standard for himself.

“It’s a different game,” Wilson said to reporters. “I’m not running high school anymore. I’m running with the big dogs.”

Wilson has dominated at the high school level with highlights including nearly breaking the 45-second mark in the 4x400m as a freshman, winning the New Balance Nationals in both indoor and outdoor in the 400m and 4×400 as a sophomore, and taking first place in the East Coast Elite – Meet of Champions and Distance Carnival @ Stevenson University in both the 100- and 200-meters.

The Washington Post asked him to rank his nerves on a scale of one to 10.

“Probably like a 2,” Wilson said. “I’m racing against bigger people that got brands and things like that. To me, everybody puts their spikes on the same way I do. I train just as hard as they do. It’s just the best of the best going at each other.”

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