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Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
Born | 31 December 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 400m: 49.47 (Gainesville, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kaylyn Brown (born 31 December 2004) is an American sprinter.[1]
From Charlotte, North Carolina, she attended Mallard Creek High School.[2] From 2023, she attended the University of Arkansas.[3]
She won a gold medal as part of the victorious Mixed 4x400m relay team at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.[4] In the preliminary round the team of Brown, Charlie Bartholomew, Madison Whyte and Will Sumner set a meeting record time of 3:18.65.[5]
In April 2024, she broke 50-seconds for the 400 metres for the first time, running 49.95 seconds during the Tom Jones Invitational held in Gainesville, Florida.[6] With the run she met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[7]
She ran a new personal best time of 49.47 seconds for the 400 metres at the SEC Outdoor Championships in Gainesville, Florida on 11 May 2024.[8][9] It places her fourth all-time for a College athlete and was the fastest all-time performance by a 19-year-old American and second globally for her age, only behind East German athlete Grit Breuer who ran 49.42 in 1991.[10]