Spectator Information for Olympic Trials Watch Day 1 of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field live on NBCSN from 7:00 p.m. ET - 10:00 p.m. ET and on NBC from 10:00 p.m. ET - 11:00 p.m. ET. The full broadcast schedule can be found here and the Day 1 broadcast and streaming schedule is as follows:
One non-athlete participant has returned a positive result for COVID-19 in the pre-event testing protocols leading up to the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials set to begin Friday, June 18 in Eugene. The person who tested positive was asymptomatic and fully vaccinated. The individual was immediately placed into the isolation protocol. Contact tracing was completed and an unvaccinated athlete participant was identified as a close, sustained contact. The athlete was placed into the quarantine protocol and will not be able to compete at the Olympic Trials. USATF engaged Premier Medical Group (PMG) who administered over 1,500 tests in the first two days. An estimated 12,000 tests will be completed over the 13-day period.
EUGENE -- The highly anticipated U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field are set to begin at the newly-renovated Hayward Field at the University of Oregon on Friday, June 18, 2021. Fans can watch on NBCSN from 7:00 p.m. ET - 10:00 p.m. ET and on NBC from 10:00 p.m. ET - 11:00 p.m. ET.
Men's Shot Put Qualifying - Noon PT Final - 6:30 PM PT Advancement procedure: 24 athletes in two flights of 12 receive three throws each and the top 12 advance to the final. In the final, after the first three rounds the top eight receive three more attempts. Reigning Olympic champion Ryan Crouser (Redmond, Oregon / USATF Oregon) has had a spectacular year, setting a world indoor record in January and then blasting the farthest throw in the world in 31 years when he went 23.01m/75-6 at the USATF Throws Festival in Tucson. He won't be able to cruise through this meet, though, with 2019 World champion Joe Kovacs (Powell, Ohio / USATF New York) and Doha fifth-placer Darrell Hill (Chula Vista, California / USATF San Diego-Imperial) lurking and ready to take the top spot if Crouser falters even a bit. Kovacs, a two-time world champ, has a best of 22.72m/74-6.5 this year, while Hill won the USATF Golden Games with a season-best 22.34m73-3.5. If any of the top three struggle, Josh Awotunde (Columbia, South Carolina / USATF New Jersey) is 10th on the world list with a 21.68m/71-1.5, and Payton Otterdahl (Horace, North Dakota/ USATF Dakotas) is right behind him at No. 11. Men's 10,000 Final - 7:25 PM PT A fascinating matchup of old hands and fresh up-and-comers will likely delight the Hayward Field faithful. Lopez Lomong (Lake Oswego, Oregon / USATF Oregon) has won the past two U.S. titles and was seventh at Doha with a 27:04.72 that made him the No. 3 American ever, while American record holder Galen Rupp (Portland, Oregon / USATF Oregon) won the 2016 Trials to cap off an eight-year streak of national 10,000 victories. It is Grant Fisher (Portland, Oregon / USATF Oregon) who leads the list in 2021, though, with a 27:11.29 he ran at The Ten in February to slide into the No. 5 spot on the all-time U.S. performer list. Woody Kincaid (Portland, Oregon / USATF Oregon) was on Fisher's heels in that race and clocked 27:12.78, with Ben True (West Lebanon, New Hampshire / USATF New England) not far off at 27:14.95. BYU's Conner Mantz (Smithfield, Utah / USATF Utah) was the NCAA runner-up on this track a week ago, a few steps ahead of Abdihamid Nur (Flagstaff, Arizona / USATF Flagstaff) of Northern Arizona and Robert Brandt (Pasadena, California / USATF Southern California) of Georgetown, but that trio will need to dig deep to get the Tokyo standard of 27:28.
Men's Hammer Qualifying - 12:05 PM PT Final - Sunday, June 20, 4:25 PM PT Advancement procedure: 24 athletes in two flights of 12 receive three throws each and the top 12 advance to the final on Sunday. In the final, after the first three rounds the top eight receive three more attempts. Already familiar with the ring just outside the main stadium that was designed by the man whose American record he is hoping to take, Rudy Winkler (Ithaca, New York / USATF New York) has been consistently great this season and topped the world lists for several weeks with his mark from the USATF Grand Prix here in April. The undefeated Winkler is one of five U.S. men who have met the Tokyo standard, an unprecedented level of excellence in an event that was not very deep for many years in this country. Sean Donnelly (Chula Vista, California / USATF Inland Northwest) and Daniel Haugh (Marietta, Georgia / USATF Georgia) both set lifetime bests beyond 79m at the USATF Throws Festival in Tucson, and Alex Young (LaVergne, Tennessee / USATF Pacific) notched his PR at the USATF Field Festival in Chula Vista. Conor McCullough (Canoga Park, California / USATF New York) will hope to recover the form that saw him hit a PR to win the Toyota USATF Championships in Des Moines two years ago. Women's Discus Qualifying - 4:00 PM PT Final - Saturday, June 19, 6:42 PM PT Advancement procedure: 24 athletes in two flights of 12 receive three throws each and the top 12 advance to the final. In the final, after the first three rounds the top eight receive three more attempts. Valarie Allman (Austin, Texas / USATF New York) grabbed the American record last year in Idaho with a massive personal best, and she has been in top form this year with three wins and a Diamond League performance in Doha that would have been a winner if not for the new World Athletics field event format. She is three meters better on paper than any of the other entrants, but rapidly improving Rachel Dincoff (Las Cruces, New Mexico / USATF New Mexico) cannot be overlooked as she has added more than ten feet to her personal best this season and has her Tokyo Q in hand. Iowa's Laulauga Tausaga (Coralville, Iowa / USATF Iowa) was the NCAA runner-up last week and set her lifetime best at the World Championships in Doha two years ago. Whitney Ashley (Lawrence, Kansas / USATF Missouri Valley) is the fourth American with the Games standard and is a three-time World Championships veteran who was also an Olympian at Rio. Women's High Jump Qualifying - 4:45 PM PT Final - Sunday, June 20, 5:50 PM PT Advancement procedure: 24 athletes in two pits of 12 will jump until 12 athletes plus any ties remain. Fourth on the all-time U.S. list with her world leading clearance at the USATF Throws Festival in Tucson, it's hard to believe Vashti Cunningham (Las Vegas, Nevada / USATF Nevada) is still only 23 with a resumé that includes a World Indoor title, a World Championships bronze and a spot in the Olympic final at Rio five years ago. Cunningham won the last three U.S. titles and is heavily favored for another Team USATF berth. Her even younger training partner, Jelena Rowe (Las Vegas, Nevada / USATF Nevada) and Rachel McCoy (Austin, Texas / USATF Texas Southern) have scaled the Tokyo standard and just need to consistently clear bars on the first try to assure a trip to the Games. Carrying the torch of youth at the NCAA Championships, South Carolina freshman Rachel Glenn (Long Beach, California / USATF Southern California) went over a lifetime best last week to win and looks capable of navigating even higher heights. The most experienced jumper in the field is Inika McPherson (Atlanta, Georgia / USATF Gulf), a Rio Olympian who first hit the international stage in 2004 at the World Junior Championships and has a PR from 2014 that matches the Games standard of 1.96. Women's Triple Jump Qualifying - 6:15 PM PT Final - Sunday, June 20, 5:55 PM PT Advancement procedure: 24 athletes in two flights of 12 receive three jumps each and the top 12 advance to the final. In the final, after the first three rounds the top eight receive three more attempts. Take a couple of current and former American record holders and a youngster who is hot on their heels and you have all the ingredients for an epic showdown in an event that has seen U.S. hopes improve dramatically on the global level. Keturah Orji (Atlanta, Georgia / USATF Georgia) broke Tori Franklin's (East Lansing, Michigan / USATF New York) AR in April and was fourth at Rio. Orji has won the last four U.S. outdoor titles, but Franklin is an explosive talent who won three national indoor golds and was a finalist at Doha in 2019. Georgia freshman Jasmine Moore (Athens, Georgia / USATF Georgia) notched her Tokyo Q in winning the Southeastern Conference Championships in May and was the silver medalist at the NCAA Championships last week. Lynnika Pitts (Prairieville, Louisiana / USATF Southern) and Rice's NCAA bronze medalist Michelle Fokam (Houston, Texas / USATF Gulf) have an outside shot at the top three. Women's 1500 1st Round - 4:03 PM PT Semi - Saturday, June 19, 6:40 PM PT Final - Monday, June 21, 5:05 PM PT Advancement procedure: 31 athletes in two heats of 10 and one of 11, with the top 6 in each heat and next 6 fastest overall advancing to the semifinal. Two semifinal heats of 12 with the top 5 in each heat and the next 2 fastest overall advancing to the final. Jenny Simpson (Boulder, Colorado / USATF Colorado) is the defending Trials champion and took bronze at Rio. She also has a 2011 World Championships gold and a pair of silvers that provide ample proof of her tactical abilities as well as her flat-out speed. The former steeplechase Olympian will find plenty of competition from 2021 U.S. list leader Elle Purrier (Brighton, Massachusetts / USATF New England), who also set an American indoor mile record last year. Purrier was a World Championships finalist in the 5,000 at Doha and has gone sub-2:00 in the 800 this season. Shannon Osika (Ann Arbor, Michigan / USATF Michigan) has neared the 4:00 barrier with a 4:00.73 and there are a handful of other prime contenders as nine entrants have already attained the Tokyo standard. Nikki Hiltz (San Diego, California / USATF San Diego-Imperial) was a Doha finalist in 2019 and ran to a 4:01.52 PR in the semis there, adding to the Pan American Gold they won earlier that year. Women's 400 1st Round - 4:30 PM PT Semi - Saturday, June 19, 7:20 PM PT Final - Sunday, June 20, 7:06 PM PT Advancement procedure: 28 athletes in four heats of seven, with the top 3 in each heat and next 4 fastest overall advancing to the semifinal. Two semifinal heats of 8 with the top 3 in each heat and the next 2 fastest overall advancing to the final. There are six U.S. outdoor championship titles scattered among this field, the most recent being 2017 winner Quanera Hayes (Hope Mills, North Carolina / USATF North Carolina), who is also the fastest of the entrants on this year's national list at 49.92. The most decorated American in Olympic track and field history with six golds and a total of nine medals, Allyson Felix (Los Angeles, California / USATF Southern California) also has 11 outdoor world titles and 16 total medals. The 35-year-old would love to make Tokyo her farewell Games and has shown she is certainly in the picture after a 50.66 in Florida at the end of May. While running for Georgia Lynna Irby (Indianapolis, Indiana / USATF Indiana) won the NCAA gold on the old Hayward track in 2018, and in her return for the USATF Grand Prix in April she nabbed a season best 50.28. Three-time World Championships relay gold medalist Jessica Beard (Ocoee, Florida / USATF Florida) finished just behind Irby in that race, while Kendall Ellis (North Hollywood, California / USATF Southern California) zipped to a 50.30 at The Track Meet in Irvine in mid-May before winning at the Gateshead Diamond League stop. Two more stars who can end up on the podium are Wadeline Jonathas (West Columbia, South Carolina / USATF South Carolina), fourth at Doha in a PR 49.60, and Phyllis Francis (Eugene, Oregon / USATF Gulf), who was a hundredth behind Jonathas to also set a lifetime best. Men's 400 1st Round - 4:58 PM PT Semi - Saturday, June 19, 7:35 PM PT Final - Sunday, June 20, 7:15 PM PT Advancement procedure: 28 athletes in four heats of seven, with the top 3 in each heat and next 4 fastest overall advancing to the semifinal. Two semifinal heats of 8 with the top 3 in each heat and the next 2 fastest overall advancing to the final. If last week's NCAA final was anything to go by, Randolph Ross (Burlington, North Carolina / USATF North Carolina) of North Carolina A&T might just have sprinted his way onto a few Tokyo medal prediction charts. Ross stunned the track world with his dominating world-leading win and didn't look like he had put the pedal all the way to the floor quite yet. That performance should spark a reaction from Michael Norman (Sherman Oaks, California / USATF Southern California), the = fourth-fastest man in history at 43.45 who has gone 44.27 this season and is undefeated in four outings. LSU's Noah Williams (Hilton, New York / USATF Niagara) (44.30) and former LSU star Michael Cherry (Inglewood, California / USATF Southern California) (44.37) will try and put two Tigers in the tank for Tokyo selection after recording PRs this year, and Texas A&M's Bryce Deadmon (Houston, Texas / USATF Gulf) is also coming off a lifetime best at the NCAA meet, where he clocked 44.44 to finish as runner-up behind Ross. Defending Trials champion LaShawn Merritt (Portsmouth, Virginia / USATF Virginia) was the 2008 Olympic champ and took bronze at Rio, and also has two Olympic relay golds to go with 11 World Championships medals. Men's 800 1st Round - 5:26 PM PT Semi - Saturday, June 19, 7:04 PM PT Final - Monday, June 21, 5:28 PM PT Advancement procedure: 32 athletes in four heats of eight, with the top 3 in each heat and next 4 fastest overall advancing to the semifinal. Two semifinal heats of 8 with the top 3 in each heat and the next 2 fastest overall advancing to the final. A tasty rematch of the Doha final that saw 22-year-old Donavan Brazier (Grand Rapids, Michigan / USATF Oregon) claim the American record that had stood for almost 30 years, this event has a lot of youth. Bryce Hoppel (Midland, Texas / USATF Missouri Valley) was also only 22 when he placed fourth behind Brazier in Doha, and during the abbreviated 2020 campaign he rolled to a 1:43.23 PR at Monaco and won the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships. USC's Isaiah Jewett (Inglewood, California / USATF Southern California) smashed his lifetime best to win the NCAA gold last week in 1:44.68, with super-freshman Brandon Miller (O Fallon, Missouri / USATF Ozark) of Texas A&M moving to No. 3 on the all-time U.S. U20 performer list at 1:44.97 to place second. Rio bronze medalist Clayton Murphy (Pepper Pike, Ohio / USATF Lake Erie) is the grand old man of this group at 26 and has sub-1:43 credentials and an eighth-place effort at Doha. He and Brazier have split the past four U.S. outdoor titles, with Murphy the reigning Trials champ. Women's 5000 1st Round - 5:54 PM PT Final - Monday, June 21, 5:40 PM PT Advancement procedure: 26 athletes in two heats of 13, with the top 5 in each heat and next 6 fastest overall advancing to the final. A giant question mark hangs over this event -- who can/will double back after the 1,500 heats just under two hours before? Regardless of who does or doesn't, the fastest woman this year is solely focused on this title. Josette Norris (Tenafly, New Jersey / USATF New England) was a pretty fair runner coming into this season and has dramatically lowered her lifetime best by slicing almost 38 seconds off her pre-2021 PR. Rachel Schneider (Flagstaff, Arizona / USATF Arizona) and Allie Buchalski (Seattle, Washington / USATF Pacific Northwest) have also shown remarkable improvement, with Schneider snipping more than 14 seconds off her previous best and Buchalski taking more than 24 seconds off hers. With that being said, Karissa Schweizer (Urbandale, Iowa / USATF Oregon) clocked 14:26.34 in 2020 and has to rate as one of the favorites armed with a 15:00.44 already in 2021. If they double back, Elle Purrier (Brighton, Massachusetts / USATF New England) and Jenny Simpson (Boulder, Colorado / USATF Colorado) can't be discounted. Purrier was 11th at Doha and Simpson has a best of 14:56.26 from 2013, the year she won the U.S. title. Women's 100 1st Round - 6:37 PM PT Semi - Saturday, June 19, 6:03 PM PT Final - Saturday, June 19, 7:51 PM PT Advancement procedure: 32 athletes in four heats of eight, with the top 3 in each heat and next 4 fastest overall advancing to the semifinal. Two semifinal heats of 8 with the top 3 in each heat and the next 2 fastest overall advancing to the final. Trials folklore tells of a majestic series of speed displays that left the world breathless in 1988, when the legend of FloJo was born. 33 years later, a confident and supremely talented dynamo named Sha'Carri Richardson (Dallas, Texas / USATF Texas Southern) would like to create her own legend, and who can doubt the possibility after watching her blaze to a 10.72 at the Miramar Invitational in April and a pair of sub-10.8 dashes at the USATF Golden Games a month later? Richardson first showed her brilliance with a pair of U.S. U20 records for LSU at the 2019 NCAA Championships in Austin and she has improved with age. Surprising the crowd like her teammate Randolph Ross in the men's 400, Cambrea Sturgis (Kannapolis, North Carolina / USATF North Carolina) of North Carolina A&T rode a just-illegal wind to a 10.74 to win the NCAA gold last week in 10.74, the fastest time ever run by a collegian in any conditions. Reigning Trials champ English Gardner (Voorhess, New Jersey / USATF New Jersey) is back and fully healthy, and the 2019 U.S. champion, Teahna Daniels (Austin, Texas / USATF Texas Southern), is also here. Aleia Hobbs (Baton Rouge, Louisiana / USATF Southern), a 10.91 performer won the 2018 U.S. crown as a senior at LSU. 2014 national champ Tianna Bartoletta (Berkeley, California / USATF Pacific) is back in sub-11 territory with a 10.96 two weeks ago and she set her PR of 10.78 in finishing as runner-up to Gardner at the 2016 Trials. Fans can follow #TrackFieldTrials21 and #JourneyToGold on social media via USATF’s accounts on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.