Grace Stark

Stark at Awards Ceremony in Tokyo 2025
Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(2001-05-06)May 6, 2001 (age 24)
Home town	White Lake, Michigan, U.S.
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personalbest(s)	60m hurdles: 7.72 (Nanjing, 2025) 100m hurdles: 12.21 (Paris, 2025)
Medal record Women'sathletics Representing United States World Championships 2025 Tokyo 100 m hurdles

Grace Stark (born May 6, 2001) is an American hurdler. She won the bronze medal in the100 metres hurdles at the2025 World Championships, having been fifth at the2024 Paris Olympics and over60 metres hurdles at the2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.^[1]

FromWhite Lake, Michigan, she attendedLakeland High School. As a junior in 2018, she won MHSAA Division 1 state championship titles over 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles. In the hurdles she ran the fastest time ever recorded by a Michigan high school athlete.^[2][3] She attended theUniversity of Florida.^[4]

Stark won the NCAA Indoor60m hurdles title in 2022, having run a personal best 7.83 seconds in the heats and lowering it to 7.78 in the final.^[5] This time equalled the collegiate record set byBrianna Rollins in 2013.^[6] She missed competition time due to a broken leg sustained at the SEC Outdoor Championships in 2022.^[7]

Stark went undefeated competing outdoors in the college season in 2024,^[8] culminating with the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor100m hurdles title in June 2024.^[9] That month, she qualified for the final of theUS Olympic Trials.^[10] In the final, she finished third in a personal best time of 12.31 seconds to earn a place on the US team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.^[11]

She competed in the 100m hurdles at the2024 Paris Olympics, reaching the finals, where she placed fifth overall.^[12]

She was selected for the2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships inNanjing in March 2025, where she qualified for the semi-finals with a personal best 7.73 seconds. In the final she placed fifth in 7.74 seconds, in a race in which the top six were only separated by 0.04 seconds.^[13][14][15] She began her 2025 outdoor season with a win over 100 metres hurdles at the Tom Jones Memorial in Gainesville, Florida.^[16] She was runner-up in the 100m hurdles at the2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025.^[17] Stark secured a victory in the women’s 100m hurdles at the2025 Shanghai Diamond League, clocking a meet record time of 12.42 seconds.^[18] She set a new meeting record to win the 100 metres hurdles at the2025 BAUHAUS-galan event in Stockholm, part of the2025 Diamond League, running 12.33 seconds.^[19] She set a personal best and moved to sixth on the all-times with a win over 100m hurdles in the Diamond League at the2025 Meeting de Paris, running 12.21 seconds on 20 June 2025.^[20]

On 2 August, she placed second in the final of the 100 metres hurdles at the2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.^[21] She placed third in the 100 metres hurdles at theDiamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August.^[22]

She was selected for the American team for the2025 World Athletics Championships inTokyo, Japan, where she won the bronze medal with a time of 12.34 seconds in the final.^[23][24]

Representing the United States

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
2018	Youth Olympic Games	Buenos Aires, Argentina	1st	100 m hurdles (76.2cm)	26.141
2024	Olympic Games[25]	Paris, France	5th	100 m hurdles	12.43
2025	World Indoor Championships	Nanjing, China	5th	60 m hurdles	7.74
	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.34

¹ Cumulative time from both rounds

• Grace Stark atWorld Athletics
• Grace Stark atwww.USATF.org
• Grace Stark atTeam USA
• Grace Elizabeth Stark atOlympics.com

• 2001 births
• Living people
• American women hurdlers
• African-American track and field athletes
• Florida Gators women's track and field athletes
• Track and field athletes from Michigan
• 21st-century American sportswomen
• 21st-century African-American sportswomen
• NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
• NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
• World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States
• World Athletics Championships medalists

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use mdy dates from July 2024
• Team USA template using new ID