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| Born | (2008-01-08)January 8, 2008 (age 17) New London, CT, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Bullis School | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | 400 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Joe Lee | ||||||||||||||
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Quincy Wilson,OLY[2] (born January 8, 2008) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the400 meters. In March 2024, competing forMaryland'sBullis School, he set anunder-18 world best for the indoor400-meter dash.[3] In July 2024, he set the under-18 world best for the outdoor version of the same event. In setting these records, Wilson is also the American high school record holder in the indoor and outdoor 400 meters.
At age 16, he qualified for the men's 4 × 400 m relay pool for the 2024 Summer Olympics, becoming the youngest American track & field male Olympian in history.[4] At the Games, Team USA won the gold medal in the 4 x 400 meters. Although Wilson only competed in the heats, he by extension also earned gold, becoming the second youngest track and field Olympic gold medalist in history.[5]
Wilson started athletics as an 8-year-old. His parents Monique and Roy Wilson decided to relocate fromChesapeake, Virginia toGaithersburg, Maryland so he could attendBullis School inPotomac, Maryland, from which his cousin, Shaniya Hall, graduated in 2020 before running track atUniversity of Oregon. He has an older sister named Kadence. Showing talent from an early age, he brokeObea Moore’s 30-year-old under-14 national record for the 400 meters.[6]
In March 2022, Wilson ran a time of 48.41 seconds outdoors for the 400 meters as a 14 year-old.[7] In August 2022, he won his fifthAAU Junior Olympic Games title, winning the 400 meters in a time of 47.77 seconds, having run 47.59 on the semi-finals. He also finished second in the200 meters, in a time of 22.42 seconds.[8]
In March 2023, he won theNew Balance Nationals Indoor title over 400 meters inBoston, Massachusetts with a time of 46.67 seconds.[9] In April 2023, he ran a 400 meters split of 45.06 seconds at thePenn Relays inPhiladelphia.[10]
In June 2023, he finished second at theNew Balance Nationals Outdoor over 400 meters, held inFranklin Field,Philadelphia.[11] In September 2023, he became one of the youngest American athletes to sign a name, image and likeness (NIL) contract with a major sports brand company.[12][13]
At the VA Showcase in January, in the boys’ invitational500 meters, Wilson ran a U.S. age-group No. 2 all-time mark of 1:01.27, narrowly missingWill Sumner’s national high school record by 0.02 seconds.[14] He also was part of a sprint relay team that set anational high school record at the event.[15]
In February, at the East Coast Invitational inVirginia Beach, he ran a personal best time of 21.02 seconds for the200 meters.[16] At theMillrose Games, Wilson ran the second fastest all-time high school boys' 600 m mark, with a time of 1:17.36.[17] Also in February, Wilson ran a personal best time of 33.11 in the 300 m at theOcean Breeze Elite Invitational.[18]
In March, he retained his title at the New Balance Nationals Indoor 400 m title in Boston in a national high school indoors record time of 45.76 seconds.[19] The time would have been enough to finish fourth in the final of the 400 meters at the2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and surpassed the ratified 400 m under-18 world best of 46.01 seconds set byTyrese Cooper in 2017.[20][21] Wilson alsoanchored his school's 4 × 400 relay team who then broke their own national record again, this time with a mark of 3:11.87.[22]
On March 29, Wilson ran 45.19 seconds for the 400 m at theFlorida Relays.[23]
On April 5, Wilson ran 1:50.44 in the800 m, at theBeach Run Invitational inMyrtle Beach,South Carolina.[24]
On April 27, Wilson split a 44.37 400 m asBullis School's anchor leg in the preliminary High School Boys'4 × 400 m at thePenn Relays. This stands as the fastest high school 400 meter split ever recorded at the Penn Relays.[25] Later that day, in the High School Boys' 4 × 400 Championship of America, Wilson would split another sub-45 second 400 m anchor leg, with a time of 44.69.[26]
In both the preliminaries and the finals, one of Wilson's teammates was tripped and had to recover the baton, giving Bullis a major setback. In the preliminaries, with his impressive 44.37 split, Wilson was able to close the gap, bringing his team home in a time of 3:14.84, thereby winning their heat and being the fourth fastest qualifier. However, in the finals, even with Wilson's 44.69 split, the gap to the leaders was too large, and could not be made up. In the finals, Bullis finished in third, in a time of 3:13.10. In second wasJamaica's Excelsior (3:12.94) and taking the win was Jamaica's Kingston College (3:11.86).[26]
On June 15, Wilson ran 45.13 in the Championship Boys' 400 m, at theNew Balance Nationals Outdoor, placing first and setting a meet record.[27]
On June 21, at theU.S. Olympic Trials, Wilson set the outdoor under-18 boys world best in the preliminaries of the 400 m, in a time of 44.66, which was the second fastest 400 m time of the day, only behindQuincy Hall's 44.60.[28] He would then better this record 2 days later on June 23, with a time of 44.59 in the semifinals, which qualified him for the finals.[28] Wilson placed sixth overall in the 400 m final, with a time of 44.94.[29]
Although Wilson did not make the individual 400 meter team, he was added to the men's 4 × 400 m relay pool, making him the youngest American track & field male Olympian in history.[30]
On July 19, in the final weeks before the2024 Paris Olympics, Wilson improved his 400 meter personal best and under-18 world best to 44.20 at theHolloway Pro Classic in Gainesville. In a very close finish, Wilson outranBryce Deadmon, with Deadmon just behind Wilson at 44.23.[31]
On August 9, in the heats of the4 × 400 m relay at the2024 Summer Olympics, Wilson was the leadoff leg, withVernon Norwood second,Bryce Deadmon third, andChristopher Bailey fourth. He split a time of 47.27, which put him in seventh place when he handed off to Vernon Norwood while Botswana'sLetsile Tebogo took the lead in a split of around 44.4. Although Wilson's split was well off his personal best and poor when compared to his teammates (Norwood at around 43.6, Deadmon at around 44.2, and Bailey at around 44.05), Team USA nonetheless qualified for the final in a time of 2:59.15 behind Great Britain (2:58.88) and Botswana (2:57.76).[32][33] In the final on August 10, the United States, consisting of Bailey (44.45), Norwood (43.26), Deadmon (43.54), andRai Benjamin (43.18), won gold in a new Olympic record of 2:54.43, which was 0.14 seconds off of the 4 x 400 m world record of 2:54.29, set in 1993 by an American team consisting ofAndrew Valmon (44.43),Quincy Watts (43.59),Butch Reynolds (43.36), andMichael Johnson (42.91). By extension, for his participation in the heats, Wilson earned a gold medal, becoming the youngest track and field Olympic gold medalist in history.[34][5]
On December 28, Wilson set a new personal best of 1:17.19 in the short track 600 meters, setting a new meet record in the event at theU.S. Marine Corps Holiday Classic atThe Armory.[35][36]
On January 17, at the Virginia Showcase, Wilson lost toAndrew Salvodon in the short track500 meters. Salvodon set a new U.S. high school national record in the event of 1:00.49, breakingWill Sumner's previous record of 1:01.25, while Wilson finished two seconds behind in 1:02.49.[37]
On February 2, at theNew Balance Grand Prix, Wilson, competing in the professional indoor 400 meters, improved his high school national record and under-18 world best in the event, running 45.66 to beatWill Sumner,Jereem Richards, andZakithi Nene.[38] He finished fifth over 400 metres at the2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.[39]
On July 12, he lowered his personal best to 44.10 seconds for the 400 meters at the Ed Murphey Track Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event, inMemphis, Tennessee.[40] The time moved him to No. 2 on the all-time under-20 list behindSteve Lewis who ran 43.87 to win gold at the 1988 Olympic Games, and also moved him to No. 2 on the all-time performance list, ahead of the 44.11 seconds run by Lewis in the U.S. Olympic trials that year.[41] On August 1, at the2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Wilson was eliminated in the semifinal round of the 400 meters, finishing fourth in his heat with a time of 45.39.[42] On November 24, he announced his commitment to join theUniversity of Maryland's track and field program for 2026.[43][44]
Information fromWorld Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
| Distance | Time (s) | Wind | Location | Date | Notes |
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| 200 meters | 22.15 | -2.0 m/s | Greensboro, US | August 3, 2022 | |
| 200 metres (i) | 22.49 | — | Virginia Beach, US | March 20, 2022 | |
| 300 metres (i) | 33.11 | — | New York, US | February 24, 2024 | |
| 400 meters | 44.10 | — | Memphis, US | July 12, 2025 | WYB |
| 400 metres (i) | 45.66 | — | Boston, US | February 2, 2025 | WYB |
| 500 metres (i) | 1:01.27 | — | Virginia Beach, US | January 12, 2024 | |
| 600 metres (i) | 1:17.19 | — | New York, US | December 28, 2024 |
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
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| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | Series participation | OR |
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| 2023 | USATF U20 Championships | Eugene, Oregon | 4th | 400 m | 46.12 | - | |
| 2024 | U.S. Olympic Trials | Eugene, Oregon | 6th | 400 m | 44.94 | - |
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