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Christopher Bailey (runner)
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Christopher Bailey (born May 29, 2000) is an American track and field athlete. He has won gold medals at the Olympic Games, the World Athletics Championships and World Athletics Indoors Championships.[1]
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Early life
From Atlanta, Georgia he attended Carver High School, Mississippi Valley State University, and the University of Tennessee, before attending the University of Arkansas.[2][3]
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In January 2023, Bailey set a new Arkansas Razorbacks College record over 400 m of 45:09 to break the previous record of 45:29 set in 2005 by Terry Gatson.[4] Bailey won the NCAA Indoors 4 × 400 m title as part of the Arkansas Razorbacks in March 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[5]
Competing at the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Bailey qualified fastest from the 400 m heats.[6] He then reached the final with the fifth fastest time.[7] He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[8]
He was a silver medalist running the anchor leg for the American 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in March 2024.[9]
In April 2024, he was selected as part of the American team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.[10] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics over 400 metres in August 2024, qualifying for the final and placing sixth overall.[11] He also competed in the men's 4 × 400 m relay at the Games, winning the gold medal with the American relay team.[12]
He won the 400 metres at the 2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.[13] He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he led a clean sweep for the USA of the medals in the individual 400 metres, winning the gold ahead of compatriots Brian Faust and Jacory Patterson.[14][15][16]
He won the opening Grand Slam Track race in the Long Sprints category at the inaugural slam in Kingston, Jamaica on 4 April 2025, running 44.34 for the 400 metres.[17] He ran a personal best 44.27 seconds to finish second in the 400 metres at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025.[18] Competing at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League on 3 May 2025, he won the men’s 400m in 44.17 seconds.[19]
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