Rudy Winkler

Winkler in 2024
Personal information
Born	(1994-12-06)December 6, 1994 (age 30) Albany, New York, U.S.
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight	240 lb (109 kg)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	Hammer throw
College team	Cornell Big Red
Achievements and titles
Personalbest	Hammer: 82.71 m (271 ft 4 in)
Medal record Men'sathletics Representing United States NACAC Championships 2025 Freeport Discus throw Pan American Games 2023 Santiago Hammer throw
Updated on July 8, 2021

Rudy Winkler (born December 6, 1994) is an American maletrack and field athlete who competes in thehammer throw.^[1] He is theNACAC area record holder^[2] and Americanrecord holder with a throw of 82.71 m (271 ft 4 in) for the hammer^[3] and holds a personal best of 23.32 m (76 ft 6 in) for theweight throw. He was the hammer national champion in 2016 and 2020, winning the2016.^[4] and2020 United States Olympic Trials.^[5]

Born inSand Lake, New York, Winkler attendedAverill Park High School and competed in the hammer from a young age and represented the United States in age category competitions. He was a finalist at both the2011 World Youth and the2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics.^[6] He won his first international medal at thePan American Junior Championships in 2013, taking the silver medal behind Mexico'sDiego del Real.^[7]

He joined^{[clarification needed]}Cornell University and competed collegiately for theirCornell Big Red track team and was selected for theQuill and Dagger society. He topped the field of the weight throw at the 2015Ivy League Indoor Track & Field Championships, then won the hammer title at the conference's outdoor championships later that year. At his first national event, he came eighth in the hammer at the2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In the 2016 season, he defended his Ivy League Indoor title and placed tenth at theNCAA Men's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships. He was again hammer champion at the Ivy League Outdoor meet and set a personal record of 72.84 m (238 ft11+1⁄2 in) to place runner-up to Britain'sNick Miller at the2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships.^[8] Following his graduation in 2017, Winkler used the last of his NCAA eligibility for theRutgers Scarlet Knights track and field team, setting their school record and placing 4th at the2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.^[9]

At the2016 United States Olympic Trials a big personal best of 76.76 m (251 ft 10 in) brought him his first national title and selection for theUSA Olympic team.^[10] Although he was just short of the 77-meter qualifying standard set by theIAAF, he was invited to compete as one of the highest-ranked athletes, as an insufficient number of people had achieved the mark that year.^[11]

He currently resides in Washington, D.C., with his fiancé, Olivia Foster.^[12][13]

His greatest sports influences are his friends and coaches Paddy McGrath and Roman Feldman.

• USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
  • Hammer throw:2016
  • Hammer throw:2020

Source:^[14]

• Hammer throw – 82.71 m (271 ft4+1⁄4 in) (2021)
• Discus throw – 51.47 m (168 ft10+1⁄4 in) (2019)
• Weight throw – 23.32 m (76 ft 6 in) (2017)

• Rudy Winkler atWorld Athletics
• Rudy Winkler atwww.USATF.org
• Rudy Winkler atTeam USA (archive March 18, 2023)
• Rudy Winkler atOlympedia
• Rudy Winkler atOlympics.com
• Rudy Winkler at theParis 2024 Summer Olympics (archived,alternate link)
• Rudy Winkler at theLima 2019 Pan American Games (archived,alternate link)

• Living people
• 1994 births
• American men hammer throwers
• Cornell Big Red men's track and field athletes
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
• People from Sand Lake, New York
• Track and field athletes from New York (state)
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
• USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• 21st-century American sportsmen
• Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's track and field athletes
• World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States

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