| Valarie Allman | |
| Full Name: | Valarie Carolyn Allman |
| Birth Date: | February 23, 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Newark, Delaware, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in[1] |
| Sport: | Track and field |
| Event: | Discus throw |
| Education: | Stanford University[2] |
| Collegeteam: | Stanford Cardinal |
| Hometown: | Longmont, Colorado, U.S. |
Valarie Carolyn Allman (born February 23, 1995) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the discus throw. She is a two time Olympic champion, having won the gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics. Allman earned bronze at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, which made her the first American woman to win a world championship medal in the discus throw[3] [4] and later added a silver medal at the 2023 World Championships. She is the North American record holder for the event.
Valarie Allman was born at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware and raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania.[5] [6] [7] She graduated from Silver Creek High School, in Longmont, Colorado in 2013.[8] She then graduated from Stanford University in 2017 with a B.S. in product design.
Allman was a seven-time All-American at Stanford University. She went on to represent her country at the 2017 Summer Universiade, where she won a silver medal, and the 2017 World Championships, where she did not qualify for the final. She was the 2018 National Champion.[9] Also, she earned bronze at the 2018 Athletics World Cup and silver at the 2018 NACAC Championships. She won the gold medal at the 2021 Summer Olympics. At the 2022 World Athletics Championships, she won a bronze medal, which made her the first American woman to win a world championship medal in the discus throw.[3] [4] At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris she won the gold medal.[10]
Allman's personal best in the discus event is, set at the Triton Invitational in La Jolla on April 8, 2022. This was the 15th longest throw in history and the longest in almost 30 years.[11]
She now resides in Austin, Texas, and trains under Coach Zebulon Sion at the University of Texas, where she is a volunteer assistant. She was sponsored by Oiselle through 2020, as well as the New York Athletic Club. She is currently sponsored by Asics.[12]
| 2014 | World Junior Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus | ||
| 2015 | Universiade | Gwangju, South Korea | 5th | Discus | |||
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 28th (q) | Discus | |||
| Universiade | Taipei, Taiwan | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus | |||
| 2018 | World Cup | London, United Kingdom | 3rd | Discus | |||
| NACAC Championships | Toronto, Canada | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus | 59.67m (195.77feet) | ||
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 7th | Discus | 61.82m (202.82feet) | ||
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus | 68.98m (226.31feet) | |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | 3rd | Discus | 68.3m (224.1feet) | ||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus | 69.23m (227.13feet) | |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus | 69.5m (228feet) |