 Wilson signing an autograph for a fan at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 5 November 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | High Jump 2.29 m (2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Tyus Wilson (born 5 November 2002) is an American high jumper. He won the high jump at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.[1]
Early life
[edit]From Sterling, Kansas, he attended Sterling High School. He won three Kansas state titles in the high jump while missing a potential fourth title with the COVID-19 pandemic causing the dissolution of the track and field season in his final year.[2][3]
NCAA
[edit]He attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In June 2024, he was runner-up at the 2024 NCAA outdoor championships in Eugene, Oregon, jumping 2.23 metres to finish behind Romaine Beckford. [4][5] In March 2025, he won the 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships with a best jump of 2.28 metres, in Virginia Beach.[6] Latter that month, he was named the Big Ten Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Year.[7]
In May 2025, he set a personal best 2.29 metres to win the Big Ten Conference Championship.[2] He finished his time at Nebraska that summer as a five-time All-American, a four-time Big Ten champion and two-time Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year.[5]
Professional career
[edit]He placed third at the US Olympic Trials in June 2024 with a successful clearance of 2.24 metres, but did not meet the requirements by height or world ranking for Olympic selection, and the United States only sent two high jumpers to the Paris Olympics.[3]
He cleared 2.27 metres to win the high jump at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon on 3 August 2025, making the height with his third and final attempt, to finish ahead of Shelby McEwen and JuVaughn Harrison.[8][9][10] Later that month, he won the gold medal at the 2025 NACAC Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas with a jump of 2.24 metres.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tyus Wilson". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ a b "Sterling's Wilson wins national high jump title in Oregon". Great Bend Post. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ a b "Sterling's Wilson not headed to Olympics in high jump". Hutch Post. Jul 1, 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ a b Kern, Mason (3 August 2025). "'Cornhuskers stand up': Former Husker wins U.S. outdoor high jump title". wowt.com. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships". World Athletics. 14 March 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "Sterling's Own Tyus Wilson Selected as Big Ten Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year". adastraradio.com. 20 March 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "USA Championships". World Athletics. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "Wilson Wins High Jump Gold at USATF Championships". 1011now. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ Hutchinson, Emma (4 August 2025). "Here's Who Won The Men's High Jump At The 2025 USATF Championships". Flotrack. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "Roban makes history at NACAC Championships". World Athletics. 18 August 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
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