Personal information | |
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Nationality | American |
Born | 8 January 2008 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprint |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | Outdoor
200m: 22.15 (Greensboro, 2022) Indoor 200m: 21.02i (Virginia Beach 2024)
300m: 33.11i (New York City 2024)
400m: 45.76i (Boston 2024) |
Quincy Wilson (born 8 January 2008) is an American track and field athlete. In March 2024, he set an under-18 world record record for the indoor 400 metres.[1]
Wilson started athletics as an eight year-old. His parents Monique and Roy Wilson decided to relocate from Chesapeake, Virginia to Gaithersburg, Maryland so he could attend Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, from which his cousin, Shaniya Hall, graduated in 2020 before running track at Oregon University. He has an older sister named Kadence. Showing talent from an early age, he broke Obea Moore’s 30-year-old under-14 national record for the 400 metres.[2]
In March 2022, Wilson ran a time of 48.41 seconds outdoors for the 400 metres as a 14 year-old.[3] In August 2022, he won his fifth AAU Junior Olympic Games title, winning the 400 metres in a time of 47.77 seconds, having run 47.59 on the semi-finals. He also finished second in the 200 metres, in a time of 22.42 seconds.[4]
In March 2023, he won the New Balance Nationals Indoor title over 400 metres in Boston, Massachusetts with a time of 46.67 seconds.[5] In April 2023, he ran a 400 metres split of 45.06 seconds at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.[6]
In June 2023, he finished second at the Outdoor National Championships over 400 metres, held in Franklin Field, Philadelphia.[7] In September 2023, he became one of the youngest American athletes to sign a name, image and likeness (NIL) contract with a major sports brand company.[8][9]
At the VA Showcase in January 2024, the boys’ invitational 500 metres, Wilson ran a U.S. age-group No. 2 all-time mark of 1:01.27, narrowly missing Will Sumner’s national high school record by 0.02 seconds.[10] He also was part of a sprint relay team that set a national high school record at the event.[11]
In February 2024, at the East Coast Invitational in Virginia Beach, he ran a personal best time of 21.02 seconds for the 200 metres.[12] At the Millrose Games, Wilson ran the second fastest all-time high school boys' 600m mark, with a time of 1:17.36.[13] Also in February, Wilson ran a personal best time of 33.11 in the 300m at the Ocean Breeze Elite Invitational.[14]
In March 2024, he retained his title at the New Balance Nationals Indoor 400m title in Boston in a national high school indoors record time of 45.76 seconds.[15] The time would have been enough to finish fourth in the final of the 400 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and surpassed the ratified 400m under-18 world record of 46.01 seconds set by Tyrese Cooper in 2017.[16][17] Wilson also anchored his school's 4x400 relay team who then broke their own national record again, this time with a mark of 3:11.87.[18]
On 29 March 2024, he ran 45.19 seconds for the 400m at the Florida Relays.[19]