Krissy Gear

Gear at the2024 United States Olympic trials
Personal information
Birth name	Kristlin Gear
Born	(1999-07-20)July 20, 1999 (age 25) Fort Myers, Florida, U.S.
Home town	Fort Myers, Florida
Employer	Hoka One One
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Athletics/Track
Event(s)	Steeplechase,3000 meters,1500 meters
College team	Arkansas University '20 - '22 Furman University '17-'19
Coached by	Robert Gary '17 - 19 Lance Harter '20 - 22 Alan Culpepper '22-23 Jenna Wrieden & Jack Mullaney '22 - '24 Hayden Cox '24-present
Achievements and titles
World finals	2018 Tampere 3000 m s'chase,
Personalbest(s)	800m: 2:00.67 (Fayetteville, 2025) 1500m: 4:03.65 (Los Angeles, 2024) Mile: 4:26.00 (Fayetteville, 2025) 3000m steeplechase: 9:12.81 (Eugene, 2023)

Krissy Gear (born July 20, 1999) is an American professional middle distance andWorld Championship steeplechase runner from Fort Myers, Florida. Gear placed 10th at 2018 World U20 Championships. She is the 2023 USA Champion and 2018 USA U20 Champion. Kristlin Gear is an Americantrack and field athlete. In 2023, she became the US national champion in the 3000m steeplechase.^[1]

Initially a middle-distance runner, she set a Furman University school record in the 800m with a time of 2:08s.^[2] She later switched to the 3000m steeplechase as well as running 1500m. She was named the Southern Conference Indoor Freshman of the Year in 2018.^[3] Gear was selected to represent the US at the2018 IAAF World U20 Championships inTampere, Finland and finished tenth in the steeplechase.^[4] She later earned all-American honours at cross-country, and on the track, indoors and outdoors and at 1500m and in the steeplechase.^[5][6]

Competing at the2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, inEugene, Oregon, she finished first in the final of the 3000m steeplechase.^[7] Gear upset ten-time national championEmma Coburn in the race, which Gear ran in a new personal best time of 9:12.81, and included a 66.66 second final lap.^[8] The time was under the World Championship qualifying standard, and winning the race guaranteed Gear for automatic selection for the2023 World Athletics Championships held in Budapest in August 2023.^[9] Competing in the 3000m steeplechase at the2023 World Athletics Championships inBudapest, she qualified finished seventh in her heat, running 9:30.61.^[10]

Representing the United States

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
2018	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	10th	3000 m s'chase	10:00.99
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	22nd	3000 m s'chase	9:30.61	[11]

^[13][14]

Gear is a 2022NCAA champion, 8-timeNCAA Division IAll-American, 4-timeSouthern Conference champion, & 3-timeSoutheastern Conference champion.

^[15]

FromFort Myers,Florida, Gear attendedFort Myers Senior High School and ran collegiately forFurman University and theArkansas Razorbacks.^[16]

Kristlin Gear attendedFort Myers Senior High School in Fort Myers, Florida, where she emerged as one of the top high school distance runners in Florida until she graduated in 2017. While competing in high school cross country and track, Gear is a 6-timeFlorida High School Athletic Association state 3A champion.^[17]

Kristlin Gear is the oldest of three children of Brian Gear. She has two younger sisters, Lilly and Gabby.^[18]

• Krissy Gear atWorld Athletics

• Living people
• 1999 births
• American female middle-distance runners
• American female steeplechase runners
• People from Flagstaff, Arizona
• People from Fort Myers, Florida
• Arkansas Razorbacks women's track and field athletes
• World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
• Track and field athletes from Florida
• USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• 21st-century American sportswomen
• University of Arkansas alumni
• NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Furman Paladins women's track and field athletes

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