EUGENE — BYU's Wyatt Haughton broke one of the oldest meet records in the books and Gracelyn Leiseth of Florida was a double gold medalist in the throws to highlight the 51st USATF U20 Championships at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field. Athletes aged 19 and under competed for national titles and berths on Team USATF for the World Athletics U20 Championships, scheduled to be held in Lima, Peru, at the end of August. Haughton, who finished fourth at the Big 12 Championships in May, ran away with the men's 3000 steeplechase title with an 8:48.17 that bettered the meet record of 8:48.2 set in 1975 by Henry Perez of San Joaquin Delta Junior College. Coming off a successful freshman season at Florida that saw her move to =No. 3 on the all-time U.S. U20 performer list, Leiseth won the women's shot put with a best of 16.65/54-7.5 and took the discus gold with a 54.72/179-6 effort. In the shot she had a spirited competition with Mississippi's Akaoma Odeluga, the No. 2 all-time U.S. U20 performer, with Odeluga hitting 16.59/54-5.25 on her final attempt to earn silver. Auburn's Ja'Kobe Tharp, the runner-up in the NCAA men's 110 hurdles and the newly minted American U20 record holder over the 42-inch barriers, moved to No. 2 on the all-time U.S. U20 performer list with 39-inch hurdles, zipping to a 13.12 to set a meet record and miss the AR by only .04. Georgia state sprint champion Jaden Wiley repeated the double he turned at his state's Class 7A Championships, winning the men's 100 in a PB 10.21 and coming back to take the 200 title in 20.82. Maurice Gleaton, who won the Georgia 6A crown, was second in the 100 here in 10.27. Skylynn Townsend dominated the women's triple jump, winning by almost three feet with a best of 13.47/44-2.5 to become the No. 5 all-time high school performer, and Sophia Gorriaran of Harvard defended the women's 800 title she captured last year, running 2:01.90 to win by more than two seconds. Washington high school star JaiCieonna Gero-Holt repeated as heptathlon champion, scoring 5,420 points to beat Abby Elmore, who tallied 5,363. Other top efforts included a near-miss for Angelica Harris in the women's 10K race walk, as she clocked 48:27.69 to miss the meet record by just over three seconds, and a thrilling four-way battle in the men's 1500, with Michigan's Trent McFarland coming out on top at 3:47.39 as the next three finishers came within .6 seconds of victory. Another close finish in the men's 800 had Michael Long taking top honors at 1:47.54, .05 in front of Villanova's Daniel Watcke. Scottie Vines edged Harvard's Tito Alofe in the men's high jump on the basis of fewer misses as both men cleared 2.22/7-3.25. Decathletes Kenneth Byrd and Brayden Richards used strong efforts in the pole vault to help them end up atop the podium, with Byrd getting gold with 7,536 points and Richards silver with 7,482. Bucknell's Evie Bliss defended her women's javelin title from 2023 with a 51.25/168-2 that gave her a victory margin of almost 10 feet, and Oregon's Katie Clute defeated last year's women's 3000 steeplechase winner, Angelina Napoleon of North Carolina State, by less than a quarter-second in a meet record 10:02.03. Full results can be found here. Photo Credit: Charlie Townes