Britton Wilson | |
Birth Date: | 13 November 2000 |
Birth Place: | Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
Education: | University of Arkansas |
Country: | United States |
Sport: | Track and field |
Event: | 400 metres hurdles, 400 metres |
Coach: | Chris Johnson |
Collegeteam: | Arkansas Razorbacks |
Club: | Adidas |
Britton Wilson (born 13 November 2000) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the 400 meters hurdles and 400 meters. She finished fifth in the 400 m hurdles at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, her major championship debut. Wilson is the North American indoor record holder for the 400 m dash with a time of 49.48 seconds, set on March 11, 2023, in Albuquerque.
She was the first North American woman to break the 50-second barrier and only the second woman ever under 49.50 s in the indoor 400 m. At the same meet in March 2023, she was part of the mixed nationality women's team that set the fastest indoor performance in history in the 4 × 400 m relay with 3:21.75. At the time, her split of 49.19 s was the fastest indoor split in world history. Wilson is a two-time individual NCAA Division I champion.
Initially a student at the University of Tennessee, Wilson switched to University of Arkansas in 2021 after suffering mental health issues.[1] [2] The change to Arkansas proved a catalyst to her most successful season as she won the 400 meters hurdles at the NCAA Division I Outdoors in June 2022 representing the Arkansas Razorbacks in a time of 53.86, finishing nearly a whole second ahead of second-placed Anna Hall.[3] Prior to this Wilson had won both the 400 m hurdles and 400 m dash at the SEC Championships as well as helped the Razorbacks to third in the 4 x 400 m relay with a split time of 48.60, the fastest ever single lap in collegiate history.[4]
She finished second in the 400 m hurdles to world record holder Sydney McLaughlin at the 2022 USATF Championships as McLaughlin broke her own world record. Wilson ran a personal best time of 53.08 as runner up.[5] She was named in the American squad for the 2022 World Athletics Championships, where she placed fifth in the final in a time of 54.02 s.[6]
Wilson's 2023 indoor season started with a collegiate indoor record in the 600 m with a time of 1:25.16, beating Athing Mu's previous best set in 2021.[7] On March 11 at the NCCA Division I Indoors in Albuquerque, New Mexico (at altitude), she broke the North American indoor 400 m record by over half a second with the second-fastest mark on the respective world all-time list of 49.48 seconds, a time that would have been a world indoor record before February 19 when Femke Bol achieved 49.26 s. It was the fastest ever run by a collegian indoors or out as Wilson's mark bettered Mu's NCAA outdoor record (49.57). She added title for the 4 x 400 m relay with a 49.19 s anchor, the fastest indoor split in world history.[8] [9]
Britton showed no mercy to the collegiate record book about a month later again and eventually broke Mu's outdoor record too, clocking 49.51 s at the Tom Jones Memorial in Gainesville, Florida.[10] She lowered her record to 49.13 seconds at the SEC Championships in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a further month later, on May 13, to move up to fourth / eighth / 17th on the U.S. / NACAC / world all-time lists respectively.[11] The 22-year-old won also the 400 m hurdles in 53.28 s just an hour later to achieve the best ever one-day such double.[12]
Competing at the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, in Eugene, Oregon, she finished second in the final of the 400m.[13] A few days later on July 10, Wilson announced she would forego the rest of her NCAA eligibly and had signed a professional contract with Adidas.[14] She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[15]
Event | Time | Venue | Date | Notes | |
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400 m hurdles | 53.08 | Eugene, OR, United States | June 25, 2022 | ||
400 meters | 49.13 | Baton Rouge, LA, United States | May 13, 2023 | , 4th U.S. all time | |
4 × 400 m relay split | 48.60 | Oxford, MS, United States | May 14, 2022 | fourth leg, 1st collegiate all time | |
400 meters indoor | 49.48 | Albuquerque, NM, United States | March 11, 2023 | North American record, 2nd all time | |
4 × 400 m relay indoor split | 49.19 i | Albuquerque, NM, United States | March 11, 2023 | , fourth leg, 1st all time | |
600 meters indoor | 1:25.16 i | Fayetteville, AR, United States | January 13, 2023 | ||
800 meters indoor | 2:02.13 i | Fayetteville, AR, United States | February 17, 2023 |
2019 | Pan American U20 Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 5th | 400 m hurdles | 58.19 | |
2022 | World Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | 5th | 400 m hurdles | 54.02 | (sf: 53.72) |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:17.79 | (49.39 split) | ||
2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 46th (h) | 400 m | 53.87 |
Representing Central Virginia T&F Club / Mills E. Godwin High School | |||||||
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2016 | NSAF Indoor Nationals | New York City | 5th | 400 m | 57.02 | ||
NSAF Nationals | Greensboro, North Carolina | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m | 54.30 | ||
2017 | NSAF Indoor Nationals | New York City | 3rd | 400 m | 53.25 | ||
NSAF Nationals | Greensboro, North Carolina | 7th | 400 m | 53.77 | |||
25th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 48.18 | |||||
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:39.58 | ||||
2018 | NSAF Indoor Nationals | New York City | 6th | 400 m | 54.70 | (h:) | |
USATF U20 Championships | Bloomington, Indiana | 5th | 400 m hurdles | 57.95 | |||
2019 | NSAF Indoor Nationals | New York City | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m | 52.72 | |
NSAF Nationals | Greensboro, North Carolina | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m hurdles | 56.77 | ||
31st | 4 × 200 m relay | 1:42.73 | |||||
USATF U20 Championships | Miramar, Florida | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m hurdles | 56.36 | ||
Representing Tennessee Volunteers | |||||||
2021 | NCAA Division I Indoor Championships | Fayetteville, Arkansas | 12th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:36.60 | ||
US Olympic Trials | Eugene, Oregon | 25th (h) | 400 m hurdles | 59.95 | |||
Representing Arkansas Razorbacks | |||||||
2022 | NCAA Division I Indoor Championships | Birmingham, Alabama | 6th | 400 m | 51.52 | ||
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:27.23 | ||||
NCAA Division I Championships | Eugene, Oregon | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m hurdles | 53.86 | ||
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:23.69 | |||||
USATF Championships | Eugene, Oregon | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m hurdles | 53.08 | ||
2023 | NCAA Division I Indoor Championships | Albuquerque, New Mexico | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m | 49.48 | |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:21.75 | (49.19 split) | |||
NCAA Division I Championships | Austin, Texas | 7th | 400 m hurdles | 55.92 | |||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m | 49.64 | ||||
USATF Championships | Eugene, Oregon | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m | 49.79 | ||
Representing Adidas | |||||||