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Heath Baldwin
American athlete (born 2001) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Heath Baldwin (born February 8, 2001) is an American decathlete.[1]
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Early life
Baldwin is from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he attended Hackett Catholic Prep High School.[2] The youngest of four siblings, he was a keen baseball player before focusing on track and field after being persuaded to try it by his strength and conditioning coach.[3] He also played American football and basketball to all-state standard.[4] He initially competed for the Michigan Wolverines track and field team before later transferring to Michigan State University.[5][6]
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Career
Baldwin was runner up to Leo Neugebauer at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships heptathlon in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts.[7] In the outdoor season in 2024, Baldwin skipped the regional and national collegiate trials to focus on the Olympic trials.[8] In June 2024, he won the decathlon at the 2024 United States Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, having also led overnight following the first day of competition.[9][10] In winning the title he scored a personal best 8,625 points.[11]
He competed in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the decathlon, finishing in tenth place overall with a score of 8,422 points.[12] He finished third overall in the 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour.[13]
He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he was in second place after the first day before eventually finishing fourth overall.[14][15]
He finished eighth at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis on 1 June 2025 with a tally of 8,430 points.[16]
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