The most exciting week of track and field on American soil is finally here: the 2024 USATF Olympic Trials! We’ve been watching eagerly all season, rooting for our favorites and scoping out the competition to try and figure out which Americans have the best shot at making the team for the Paris Olympics – and who might have the best shot at a medal once they get there.

Nothing beats the drama of the U.S. Trials – unlike many other countries, which select their teams based on a combination of championship results and committee decisions, Team USA sets its team in the most objective way possible: top three at the Trials make the team. Of course, those athletes have to have achieved the Olympic standard or World ranking, so there still might be some numbers to crunch to iron out a few spots in select events, but in most cases, you’ve got to perform your best on the day to book your ticket.

All the action kicks off Friday, June 21 at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR. All the action will be televised and/or streamed by the NBC/Universal networks – the easiest way to watch is with a Peacock subscription. You can also find all the helpful links to follow along at home below:

• Schedule of events
• Entry lists
• TV and streaming information
• Live results

Below, we break down everything you need to know about the field events at the U.S. Olympic Trials. You can read our sprint events preview here and our distance events preview here. Without further ado, here’s a preview of the top Americans to watch, their chances of making Team USA, and their potential to make a splash in Paris:

Men’s shot put

First round: Friday, June 21st, 9:15pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 21.50m Americans with standard: 7

State of the event: I’m hesitant to say that the U.S. is a “lock” for an Olympic medal in any event. However, if you’re going to say that about one discipline, it’s men’s shot put. American throwers hold three of the top four spots on the world outdoor list for 2024 and five of the top eight. Oh, and Ryan Crouser hasn’t even opened yet. There is a possibility for the first Olympic sweep in this event since 1960, but Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri and his 22.95m PB from last month will have something to say about that.

Top Contenders: Even in a field as deep as this one is, it feels like there will be a clear top three when Saturday’s finals come around. Joe Kovacs is the world leader right now at 23.13m from last month’s Prefontaine Classic and threw 22.93m in LA a week before that. Last year, he finished fourth at U.S. Championships and only found himself in Budapest because of the extra spot Crouser had opened up. Given that the two-time World champ has never started a season this well, I doubt he’s going to let his spot on the three-man team get that dicey. At age 28, Payton Otterdahl has taken his game to another level. Last year’s fifth-place finisher from Worlds has broken the 22m barrier each time he’s stepped into the ring this year, including a PB throw of 22.41m that places him just outside the 10 best throwers in American history.

As I mentioned earlier, Ryan Crouser will be opening his outdoor campaign in Eugene this weekend. It’s not the easiest position to be in, but it’s also Ryan Crouser, so I don’t think it’ll matter that much in the end. I’m not sure if I’d list him as the favorite over Kovacs, but at least top three should be a safe bet.

More athletes to watch: Jordan Geist is the only man in the field not mentioned above to have thrown at least 22m outdoors this year, posting a mark of 22.09m to finish runner-up to Fabbri in Ostrava. It’s a great sign for last year’s NCAA champion, and if he was any nationality other than American he’d be a lock to become an Olympian in August. Unfortunately, it’ll probably take the best meet of his life just to make the team this year. 2022 World bronze medallist Josh Awotunde will be in the field as well. His performances haven’t been the best since that medal in Eugene, but his best mark of the last two years came in a second place finish at U.S. Championships last July.

Women’s shot put

First round: Friday, June 28th, 10:15pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 18.80m Americans with standard: 8

State of the event: With the reigning two-time World Outdoor champion expected to make her Olympic debut in August and nearly half of the women in the world with the standard, the U.S. also has incredibly strong medal chances on the women’s side. Canadian Sarah Mitton, the current world leader coming off a World Indoor title, will be Chase Jackson’s toughest competitor in Paris.

Top contenders: Jackson and newly-crowned NCAA champ Jaida Ross have clearly been the two best Americans since the outdoor season got underway. Jackson has already cracked the 20m mark on three occasions outdoors and hasn’t lost in two months. Ross, on the other hand, is undefeated all season long(albeit against collegiate competition) and became the first collegiate woman to ever throw 20m with her mark of 20.01m in Fayetteville last month. The Oregon product has also been consistent, with four competitions where her result was better than any American not named Chase Jackson has been able to produce this year. They should both feel comfortable in their chances of becoming Olympians for the first time.

More athletes to watch: The battle for the third spot in this event will be one of the more interesting competitions to watch this week. If Maggie Ewen can perform the way we know she can, she’ll be tough to beat. However, her outdoor performances have been up-and-down and a far cry from her 20.45m PB from last year. Adelaide Aquilla had a great showing at the Suzhou Diamond League in April, throwing 19.38m, but has a best mark of only 18.47m in three competitions since. Tokyo silver medallist Raven Saunders will be one of the more interesting athletes to keep an eye on. Back from a whereabouts suspension that forced them to miss 2023, they’ve been over 19m twice this year and sits fifth on the U.S. list.

Men’s discus

First round: Thursday, June 27th, 9:45pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 67.20m Americans with standard: 4

State of the event: An American man hasn’t won an Olympic medal in this event since 1984, and I don’t see that streak ending this year. While the U.S. is the only nation with more than three men above the standard, a historically strong field of European throwers that includes the world record holder and the winners of the last five global titles, as well as the Oceanian duo of Matty Denny and Alex Rose, makes the Stars and Stripes getting on the podium a tall task.

Top contenders: Andrew Evans, who threw 68.09m at the University of Michigan, and Reggie Jagers, who hurled it 69.16m in Ramona, Oklahoma,have been the most consistent men in the country to this point in the season. Evans has put himself in a good position to make his fourth national team, while Jagers is on a great trajectory after dealing with a plethora of injuries since representing the U.S. in Tokyo. Joe Brown and Marcus Gustaveson, who both hit the standard in “Throw Town” on June 2nd, have seen big improvements this spring and will be looking to have a breakthrough performance on the national stage as they head into the summer.

More athletes to watch: Behind the group with the standard – but more so behind Evans and Jagers – it feels like it could be a total dart throw for who ends up on the podium. Sam Mattis is a two-time national champ and has represented the U.S. at each of the last four global championships, but he’s only ranked seventh in the country right now. Like Mattis, Brian Williams has made Team USA for the last three World Championships, but he’s currently ninth on the national list in 2024. Turner Washington has had a consistent first year as a pro and has given himself a solid shot to make his second consecutive national team.

Women’s discus

First round: Monday, June 24th, 8:00pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 64.50m Americans with standard: 3

State of the event: Valarie Allman should head to Paris as the gold medal favorite, but we’ve seen the last two years that pre-meet favorites don’t mean a thing. She should be a lock to land on the podium, though, especially with the unfortunate absence of her chief competitor this year, Yaime Pérez.

Top contenders: Allman has won five straight U.S. titles, and with six best marks in the country this year, it seems incredibly likely that she’ll make it six in a row. Behind her, NCAA champ and two-time Team USA member Veronica Fraley holds a season’s best of 67.17m from an April meet in Ramona, but her most impressive performance of the season came in Hayward two weeks ago when she clinched the collegiate title as somewhat of an underdog in 63.66m.

Reigning World champion Lagi Tausaga-Collins should be a no-brainer to make the team, but she’s struggled with foul issues to this point in the season, and the legal marks she has had have come up short of what we saw from her last year. However, this meet last year was a turning point for Tausaga-Collins. I’m going to keep my faith in the champ until she proves otherwise on a stage like this one.

More athletes to watch: There are a handful of collegians behind the top three that could look to shake things up, led by NCAA silver medallist Jayden Ulrich, whose season’s best of 64.29m has her fourth in the U.S. this year. Elena Bruckner has had a strong season, breaking 60m on four occasions and posting three of the four best marks of her life. She competed in Budapest last year and will be ready to capitalize on any slippage by the top three.

Men’s javelin

First round: Friday, June 21st, 8:30pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 85.50m Americans with standard: 0

State of the event: The recent medal history for the U.S. in this event is even worse than in the discus (last Olympic medal was a bronze in 1972), and the prospects of changing that history are worse as well. Zero men have the standard this year and the highest-placing American on the world list sits at only 12th.

Top contenders: While the performances from the top Americans haven’t necessarily been eye-popping, they have set us up for a tight competition in Eugene. Jordan Davis is the national leader after rewriting the D2 record books this year for Southern Connecticut St., and comes into the meet with a best mark of 84.45m. Curtis Thompson, who’s made the last three national teams, and D1 NCAA champion Marc Minichello have both had strong seasons with multiple meets over 81m each and are perhaps the strongest candidates to finish in the top three. They’re also the only two Americans inside the World Rankings quota heading into the Trials.

More athletes to watch: Donavon Banks has had the three best competitions of his life in his three competitions so far this year and currently sits second on the national list at 82.90m. However, he’s only competed three times in the qualification window for Paris. Because you need at least five competitions to qualify through World Rankings, Banks’s only hope for becoming an Olympian is to get the standard this week. Collegians Mike Stein and Dash Sirmon have also cleared 80m this year and may put the favorites on upset watch.

Women’s javelin

First round: Friday, June 28th, 7:00pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 64.00m Americans with standard: 1

State of the event: America’s medal chances in this event are stronger than on the men’s side, but still not necessarily the best. Maggie Malone-Hardin can be one of the very best throwers in the world in any given competition, but her track record in global championships isn’t great. Internationally, there’s been a handful of women who have had equally strong seasons to Malone-Hardin but have shown the ability to deliver when the lights are brightest.

Top contenders: Malone-Hardin and the newly unretired Kara Winger make up a blatantly obvious top two in this week’s field. Malone-Hardin is the only American with the standard, thanks to her season’s best of 65.00m, and the only American inside the World Rankings quota, so she should be headed to Paris barring a disaster or a few massive performances from her competitors. Winger, who opened her season at the NYC Grand Prix at 63.22m, has put herself in a tough position. Like Banks, she will be unable to get the prerequisite five competitions inside the qualification window, so to qualify for her fifth Olympics, she’ll need to hit the standard, a mark she cleared on five occasions in her last full season in 2022.

More athletes to watch: Nearly all of the women who will be battling it out for third place at the Trials competed in New York two weeks ago, and Madison Wiltrout finished ahead of the pack (but still behind Winger and Malone-Hardin) in a season’s best of 59.67m. Wiltrout currently sits outside of the World Rankings quota, but a solid mark in a third place finish this week should be enough to move her into the top 32. Ariana Ince and Maddie Harris are in similar spots, with season’s bests coming in New York, and they actually sit slightly ahead of Wiltrout in the World Rankings.

Men’s hammer

First round: Friday, June 28th, 7:30pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 78.20m Americans with standard: 2

State of the event: The U.S. will be sending over a very strong team for the hammer throw, but the fact of the matter is that the rest of the world will prove to be stronger. Reigning World champion Ethan Katzberg has looked unstoppable this year, and it just took 80.18m to medal at the European Championships. Rudy Winkler and Daniel Haugh know this too well, as they’re two of the best throwers in U.S. history and have performed very well at global championships, but the best finish either has been able to manage is sixth.

Top contenders: Winkler and Haugh have combined for the last three national titles in this event and I’d be shocked if they didn’t make it four. Haugh has competed more and looked better than Winkler this year, including three head-to-head wins, so he should be the favorite.

More athletes to watch: The last spot on the podium will be wide open at Trials. Collegians Trey Knight and Israel Oloyede looked strong throughout the NCAA season and could find their way onto the national podium. Unfortunately, Oloyede is very far off in the World Rankings, so it’s possible his spot could be reallocated if he does finish inside the top three next week. Alex Young is the only American other than Haugh or Winkler inside the World Rankings quota, but the four-time Team USA member will need to step up his performance from a middling campaign by his standards to this point.

Women’s hammer

First round: Friday, June 21st, 2:00pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 74.00m Americans with standard: 5

State of the event: American women have collected five out of nine medals handed out in this event in the last three World Championships and stand a very good chance at collecting the nation’s first Olympic medal in this event in August. Reigning World champion Camryn Rogers of Canada could be the only woman standing in the way of an American sweep in Paris.

Top contenders: Brooke Andersen, DeAnna Price, and Janee’ Kassanavoid should feel very comfortable in their chances of making their fifth, eighth, and third straight national teams, respectively. As they have been for the last two years, these three have been the cream of the crop all season and sit over a meter ahead of any other American.

More athletes to watch: If any of the three women listed above falter in Eugene, Rachel Tanczos will be waiting to pounce. She’s been very consistent all season and is throwing better than she ever has before. Earlier this month she set a PB of 74.82m in Idaho that puts her fourth in the nation in 2024. Annette Echikunwoke and Jillian Shippee have both had solid seasons as well and have represented Team USA at the World Championships in the past.

Men’s long jump

First round: Saturday, June 22nd, 7:45pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 8.27m Americans with standard: 0

State of the event: No American men have the standard, but four sit inside the world ranking quota and a handful more are sitting just outside and could move into the top 32 with a big performance this week. So, three Americans should be headed to Paris, but landing on the podium will be a tough task. Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou is the prohibitive favorite after winning the European title last week with the world’s farthest jump in almost five years. With the Jamaican duo of Wayne Pinnock and Carey McLeod in the mix as well as U20 world record holder Mattia Furlani, the medal landscape in Paris will be incredibly crowded and it feels unlikely that Team USA will be able to break through.

Top contenders: The four highest-seeded jumpers coming into the Trials are all collegians. USC’s Johnny Brackins and Florida’s Malcolm Clemons produced big marks indoors and have jumped well outdoors, but NCAA Outdoors champ JC Stevenson, also a Trojan, has been in the best form recently. The 20-year-old has both the longest all-conditions (8.37m wind-aided) and legal (8.22m to win NCAAs) jumps in the country this year. He’s currently about 30 points outside of the World Rankings quota, so he’ll need a performance close to what he produced at NCAAs to find his way in. Marquis Dendy and Jarrion Lawson are two veteran contenders that have made plenty of national teams in the past, but their 2024 seasons have been solid yet uninspiring so far. However, they’ve shown the ability in past years to perform well at this meet, so don’t be shocked if they end up in Paris.

More athletes to watch: Will Williams has made the last two national teams outdoors and represented the U.S. in Glasgow, but he has yet to surpass 8m this year. He is the second highest ranking American by World Rankings, however, so he could become an Olympian even if he doesn’t jump well at Trials, if the top three can’t make the quota. Jason Smith jumped 8.13m at the beginning of this month and sits third on the U.S. outdoor list this year. Last year he set a PB of 8.28m in May, the second-farthest mark by an American last year, but his season ended abruptly after that and he did not compete at U.S. Championships. Qualification for Paris seems a bit rocky for Smith at the moment, as he’s currently 20 spots outside the quota, but he could very well finish top three this weekend and at least give himself a chance.

Women’s long jump

First round: Thursday, June 27th, 9:18pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 6.86m Americans with standard: 4

State of the event: After a silver medal in Budapest and a gold in Glasgow, Tara Davis-Woodhall was the Olympic favorite until last week. Reigning Olympic champion and two-time World champion Malaika Mihambo of Germany won the European title with a jump of 7.22m, taking the world lead from Davis-Woodhall. Now it’s not going to be a cakewalk for Mihambo in Paris, because Davis-Woodhall has cleared 7m in each of her last five meets and has been over 7.10m in four of them. To this mix, you also have to add last year’s World champion Ivana Španović, who has yet to compete in 2024, but her social media implies she’ll be ready to compete in her fifth Olympics this August.

Top contenders: As mentioned above, Davis-Woodhall has been both the best and the most consistent American this year by a significant margin, so it should be a near certainty she’ll be becoming a two-time Olympian. Gainesville training partners Jasmine Moore and Quanesha Burks filled out Team USA in Budapest last year and fittingly sit second and third on the U.S. list this year. The pair jumped 6.88m (Moore) and 6.86m (Burks) in their last meet in New York, so they look more than ready to punch their tickets to Paris.

More athletes to watch: Monae’ Nichols has been having a great 2024 and could very well end up on her first outdoor national team. Coming off a silver in Glasgow, Nichols has posted wind-aided marks of 7.04m and 6.91m this outdoor season. Sophia Beckmon of Illinois is the first woman behind the top three after equalling the U.S. junior record at 6.86m in early May, becoming the fourth American with the standard. Beckmon has struggled with consistency throughout the season, however, so she’ll need to capture lightning in a bottle to become an Olympian at 18.

Men’s triple jump

First round: Friday, June 28th, 9:20pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 17.22m Americans with standard: 1

State of the event: After the insane triple jump competition we saw at European Championships, American medal hopes in the event are not high. Oh, and that competition didn’t even include Jamaican self-proclaimed wunderkid Jaydon Hibbert or the reigning World Outdoor and Indoor champion Hugues Fabrice-Zango of Burkina Faso. Like the long jump, this is another event where the best Americans this year have been collegians and are still just a step behind the top dogs of the world.

Top contenders: Donald Scott is the only American with the standard (which he got by jumping exactly 17.22m at U.S. Championships last year). He’s the reigning two-time national champion, and has made every outdoor national team since London 2017. He should be a pretty safe bet to head to Paris. But his season’s best of 17.00m is only third on the U.S. list this year, behind the top two finishers from NCAAs. Salif Mane of Fairleigh Dickinson and Russell Robinson of Miami set respective PBs of 17.14m and 17.13m two weeks ago on the same runway they’ll be competing on for Trials. As things sit right now, they are the first two men out of the World Rankings quota, but should comfortably move up with a solid performance and a top three finish at Trials.

More athletes to watch: It feels wrong to put two of the greatest triple jumpers in history in this section, but from what we’ve seen in 2024 Will Claye and Christian Taylor are a touch outside of that top contender tier. Claye has only competed twice this year and sits fourth in the U.S. rankings, while Taylor’s best mark of 16.48m has him ranked ninth in the country in his swansong season. Claye sits inside the World Rankings quota, and the only other American in that quota is two-time Olympian Chris Benard, who has struggled to find his form this season.

Women’s triple jump

First round: Friday, June 21st, 9:50pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 14.55m Americans with standard: 0

State of the event: American women have only ever won one medal in this event at an outdoor global championships (Tori Franklin’s bronze in 2022), and the international field is so deep this year that despite Team USA sending a collection of great jumpers to Paris, it’s unlikely they come home with a medal. Even with the unfortunate absence of Yulimar Rojas, athletes like Thea Lafond of Dominica, Shanieka Ricketts of Jamaica, and Ana Peleteiro-Campaoré of Spain will be very hard to beat.

Top contenders: Team USA has been the exact same in this event in each of Tokyo, Eugene, and Budapest, and that will most likely hold true for Paris. Jasmine Moore, Keturah Orji, and the aforementioned Franklin are the three best jumpers in U.S. history and they’ve been the three best jumpers this year. They collectively have the 12 best marks by American women in this event in 2024 and it would be a legitimate upset if any of them finished worse than third. Although, even if they do finish worse than third, their next closest competitor is so far outside of the World Rankings quota that they probably would end up on the national team anyway.

More athletes to watch: Imani Oliver is the closest competitor to the top three, having set a new PB of 13.93m two weeks ago in California. It would still take a herculean effort from Oliver to finish on the podium at Trials, and even then it’s highly improbable she would qualify through World Rankings.

Men’s high jump

First round: Thursday, June 27th, 8:00pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 2.33m Americans with standard: 2

State of the event: Both Americans that have the standard, JuVaughn Harrison and Shelby McEwen, should absolutely be in the medal conversation when we get to Paris. Harrison picked up his first medal last year in Budapest with a silver and McEwen matched that with a silver in Glasgow this spring. There’s plenty of competition, most prominently reigning Olympic champions Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim, but the medal chances look good for the only nation with multiple athletes over the standard.

Top contenders: McEwen hasn’t had the strongest outdoor season so far, but him and Harrison have been well ahead of the field when looking at the season as a whole. Harrison also will only be competing in this event, opting to pass on the long jump, so he can focus all his energy towards qualifying in what is his better event. In the field behind these two, Vernon Turner has the most impressive resume over the last few years, qualifying for both Budapest and Glasgow. His outdoor performances this year don’t exactly make you optimistic, as he’s ended three meets under 2.20m, but he’s comfortably inside the World Rankings quota and has shown the capability to pop a big jump whenever.

More athletes to watch: Nebraska’s Tyus Wilson has seen a meteoric rise this year, elevating his PB from 2.21m to a 2.29m clearance at the Big 10 Championships in May. He’s been one of the more consistent jumpers in the country, and consistency is the best thing you can hope for heading into a meet like this. Dontavious Hill is inside the all-important quota in his first year as a professional and set a new PB of 2.26m at the NYC Grand Prix. Eli Kosiba of D2 Grand Valley State cleared 2.28m back in May and is currently third on the U.S. outdoor list, but his most recent performance was a shocking 2.08m result and a sixth-place finish at the NCAA D2 Championships.

Women’s high jump

First round: Saturday, June 22nd, 8:00pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 1.97m Americans with standard: 2

State of the event: The two best American women in 2024, Rachel Glenn and Vashti Cunningham, are both positioned very well on the world list this year and have marks that should put them in podium contention. Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Nicola Olyslagers will probably end up with gold and silver in some order, but there will be a dogfight behind them for bronze. Nine women, including Glenn and Cunningham, have season’s bests between 2.00m and 1.97m.

Top contenders: Similar to the outlook on the men’s side, Glenn and Cunningham are the only Americans with the standard and are well ahead of the rest of their competitors this week. Cunningham has won every national high jump title since the 2016 Olympic Trials and has been very consistent all year. She should make it 14 U.S. titles in a row. Glenn is one of five women to clear 2m this year, but that was indoors. Her outdoor season’s best of 1.92m is still better than any American other than Cunningham, but her most recent appearance ended at 1.82m and a shocking 13th-place finish at NCAAs. She won’t necessarily need her best to finish in the top three, but she’ll need to be better.

More athletes to watch: In what will be a tight battle for third, one of the more interesting athletes to keep an eye on will be JaiCieonna Gero-Holt. The 17-year-old Washington native beat out several older athletes last week for the U20 heptathlon national title, and she’s coming into this meet with a 1.89m PB from her runner-up finish at the senior indoor championships from February. Heading to Paris will be a long shot given her position in the World Rankings, but it’s another great opportunity to get some experience and make a name for herself on the national stage before she heads to the University of Illinois.

Men’s pole vault

First round: Friday, June 21st, 8:50pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 5.82m Americans with standard: 10

State of the event: In the neverending competition to land on the podium behind Mondo Duplantis, Team USA has seen great success in the last few years. Thanks to Sam Kendricks and Chris Nilsen, an American has landed on every global podium since the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland. Nearly half of the standard-holding men in the world right now are American, so the odds that one of them can bring home a medal should be good.

Top contenders: Nilsen, KC Lightfoot, and Kendricks currently sit second, third and fourth in the world this year and are the three favorites to make the U.S. team. Nilsen’s performances outdoors haven’t quite lived up to the expectations he has built for himself, but he cleared 6m twice indoors and has made each of the last five national teams indoors or out. Given that there are 10 men with the standard, there are several other men that could shake things up, but the top three should be safe bets to go to Paris.

More athletes to watch: One of those aforementioned men that could shake things up? Austin Miller, who has competed 17 times already in 2024. In those 17 competitions, he’s posted the four best results of his career, all over the Olympic standard. In two of those indoor competitions he cleared 5.90m, which currently has him at seventh in the world.

Women’s pole vault

First round: Friday, June 28th, 8:55pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 4.73m Americans with standard: 3

State of the event: Katie Moon has won the last three outdoor global titles and is the outdoor world leader. Logic would say that the U.S. has a pretty strong chance at medalling. Brit Molly Caudery’s ascension this year and the Oceanian duo of Eliza McCartney and Nina Kennedy aren’t going to make it easy for Moon or her compatriots, but it would be shocking if the U.S. failed to medal in this event at the Olympics for the first time since 2004.

Top contenders: After battling through an Achilles injury indoors and still managing a bronze in Glasgow, Moon opened her outdoor season late at Pre but has jumped well from what we’ve seen, and has made every U.S. team since World Indoors in 2017. Sandi Morris is in a similar position, having made every U.S. team since Beijing 2015 and also having jumped well this year. She set a new outdoor season’s best last time out at 4.75m. The third woman with the standard is Bridget Williams, a finalist from Budapest. She jumped great indoors, clearing at least 4.80m on three occasions, and has had a solid outdoor season.

More athletes to watch: Chloe Timberg of Rutgers set a huge new PB of 4.71m to claim the NCAA title in Hayward two weeks ago and could go from relative obscurity to the Olympics next week. Hana Moll’s first season at Washington was a solid one, winning the indoor NCAA title and finishing third outdoors, but she’ll need to be at her very best to make Team USA again.

Decathlon

First event: Friday, June 21st, 1:00pm E.T.

Olympic standard: 8460 Americans with standard: 4

State of the event: It can sometimes be hard to evaluate where multi-eventers stand heading into major championships given the infrequency with which they compete. Zack Ziemek is the only American to medal in this event since Ashton Eaton’s retirement, but he hasn’t completed a full decathlon this year. The events he has contested have looked strong in comparison to what he’s done in the past, but making it back on the podium is going to be very difficult. Leo Neugebauer is fresh off one of the best performances in decathlon history two weeks ago at NCAAs and there were a few great showings at the European Championships. Ziemek and the rest of Team USA will also have the Canadian pair of Damian Warner and Pierce LePage to contend with.

Top contenders: Heath Baldwin of Michigan State is the current national leader at 8470 from his only decathlon of 2024, a 400-point improvement from his 2023 PB. That score would’ve been good enough to get him on Team USA last year, so we’ll see what he can do this weekend. Devon Williams finished just behind Baldwin at Mt. Sac and coincidentally is second on the U.S. list this year at 8342. However, he also competed at Hypomeeting Gotzis a little over a month later and only scored 8082, so his hopes for making his first national team since 2019 could hinge on what kind of two days he has. Reigning national champion Harrison Williams also falls into the camp of athletes who haven’t completed a decathlon yet, but the results he’s put up in individual events have been encouraging.

More athletes to watch: Kyle Garland scored 8236 points in his only decathlon so far in his first professional season, the third-best score in the country so far. He’s competed at the last two World Championships and could become a first-time Olympian if he performs up to his potential.