Collegians Ready For 2022 World Athletics Championships

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There are 123 collegians from the 2022 indoor and outdoor track & field seasons entered in the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Read that again: 123!

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What is being counted here? U.S. collegians — members of an NCAA, NAIA or NJCAA institution — during the 2022 track & field season and appeared on World Athletics’ provisional entry list for the 2022 World Athletics Championships. This count does include those entered as alternates and members of relay pools. Ultimately, everyone counted may not participate.

To compare, 70 collegians from 47 institutions representing 31 different countries participated at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Allow us to take a closer look at those 63 men and 60 women who are entered to compete from July 15-24 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Institutions with the most athletes on their 2022 rosters in Eugene, out of the 62 with at least one athlete: Texas (10), Texas Tech (7), Florida (6), Texas A&M (6), Georgia (5), Arkansas (4), LSU (4)
Countries with the most collegiate representation, out of the 45 with at least one athlete: USA (29), Nigeria (11), Canada (9), Jamaica (9), Bahamas (4), Ghana (4), Norway (4), Trinidad and Tobago (4)
Collegiate divisions with the most representation: NCAA DI (116), NCAA DII (4), NAIA (2), NJCAA (1)

Many of those collegians in attendance already competed on those rejuvenated hallowed grounds at least once this year with the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in early June – some twice, with the USATF Outdoor Championships later that same month. Others will be making their first trip to TrackTown USA.

Now, out of those 123 collegians entered, 19 are ranked among the top-5 in the world in their respective events going into the biggest athletics meeting of the year.

Among The Best In The World
NOTE: Athletes are listed in order of event, not world rank.
Event	Athlete	Country	Program	Rank	SB
w100	Julien Alfred	LCA	Texas	t-No. 4	10.81
w200	Abby Steiner	USA	Kentucky	No. 2	21.77
w200	Favour Ofili	NGR	LSU	No. 5	21.96
w400	Charokee Young	JAM	Texas A&M	No. 2	49.87
w400	Talitha Diggs	USA	Florida	No. 4	49.99
w400H	Britton Wilson	USA	Arkansas	No. 3	53.08
wHJ	Lamara Distin	JAM	Texas A&M	No. 4	1.97m
wLJ	Deborah Acquah	GHA	Texas A&M	No. 5	6.89m
wHT	Camryn Rogers	CAN	Cal	No. 4	77.67m
wHept	Anna Hall	USA	Florida	No. 2	6458
m400	Champion Allison	USA	Florida	No. 2	43.7
m400	Randolph Ross	USA	NC A&T	No. 4	44.13
m800	Moad Zahafi	MAR	Texas Tech	t-No. 4	01:43.7
m110H	Trey Cunningham	USA	Florida State	No. 2	13
m400H	Trevor Bassitt	USA	Ashland	No. 3	47.47
mHJ	Darius Carbin	USA	Georgia	t-No. 4	2.30m
mDT	Mykolas Alekna	LTU	Cal	No. 3	69.81m
mDec	Kyle Garland	USA	Georgia	No. 3	8720
mDec	Ayden Owens-Delerme	PUR	Arkansas	No. 5	8528

It’s safe to say we could be in store for some incredible performances in the Emerald City.

Collegians aren’t strangers winning medals at the World Athletics Championships.

Look no further than 2019, the last time the World Athletics Championships were held.

Twelve of the 70 collegians entered in 2019 earned medals in Doha, Qatar, including two individual world champions: Grant Holloway in the 110-meter hurdles and Anderson Peters in the javelin throw (Holloway would later win The Bowerman that same year). Mondo Duplantis took silver in the pole vault, while the other nine athletes were members of top-3 relay teams.

Expect the 2022 World Athletics Championships to treat collegians even better.

Competition gets underway tomorrow morning at 9:05 am PT with qualifying in the men’s hammer and wraps up next Sunday, July 24, with the women’s 4×400 relay.

Collegians Ready For 2022 World Athletics Championships

Among The Best In The World