Meet the athletes on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Track and Field team

Who’s on the 2016 U.S. Olympic track and field team? Here’s a comprehensive list of the qualifiers at the trials in Eugene, Oregon.

Your teams. Your favorite writers. Wherever you want them. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS (iOS or Android)

The U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials have concluded at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., and a 127-member team is headed to Rio.

In order to qualify for the Olympics, an athlete must finish among the top three of their respective event while also holding the Olympic qualifying standard for their event.

Track and field will be contested at the Olympics from Aug. 12 to Aug. 21.

Get to meet the U.S. Olympic team throughout the weekend on this page:

Men

100 meters

Justin Gatlin
Age: 34
Hometown: Woodham, Florida

​Gatlin could become the oldest man to medal at the Olympics in Rio. He won gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens before serving a four-year suspension due to a positive test for testosterone that kept him out of competition until 2010. Gatlin won a silver medal behind Usain Bolt at the 2012 Olympics in London. He also took silver behind Bolt in the 100, 200 and 4x100 at last summer's world championships. He will race all three events in the 2016 Olympics.

Trayvon Bromell
Age: 20
Hometown: St. Petersburg, Florida

Bromell has been an emerging star since breaking 10 seconds as a high schooler. Last summer, he made his first U.S. national team and took bronze in the men’s 100. He decided to turn professional after Beijing and signed a sponsorship contract with New Balance. There were initial concerns about an Achilles injury from early June but his strong running at the trials dispelled those doubts.

Marvin Bracy
Age: 22
Hometown: Orlando, Florida

Bracy’s days as a wide receiver for Florida State are long gone. He was a star sprinter while in high school and has developed well over the past few years. He has never competed at a world outdoor championship or Olympics.

200 meters

Justin Gatlin and LaShawn Merritt took the top two places. See above for their bios.

Ameer Webb
Age: 25
Hometown: Tustin, California

Webb broke out in early 2016 as a potential new U.S. sprints star as he set a personal best of 9.94 in the 100, just barely lose to Gatlin, and won the Doha Diamond League meet in 19.85 seconds. Webb was the 2013 NCAA champion but finished fourth at that year's U.S. championships. He has never competed for the U.S. at a global championship.

400 meters

LaShawn Merritt
Age: 30
Hometown: Portsmouth, Virginia

Merritt looks to add another Olympic gold medal to his collection. The 2008 400-meter Olympic gold medalist has not slowed down as he won the 2013 world championship gold medal and took silver at last summer's world championships. His runner-up finish also brought along a 43.65 personal best, which made him the sixth fastest man of all-time. Michael Johnson's world record of 43.18 may be threatened. He also qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in the 200 and will attempt to match Michael Johnson's gold medal double in the 200 and 400 from the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Gil Roberts
Age: 27
Hometown: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Roberts will compete in his first Olympics after not making it out of the semifinals at the 2012 Olympic Trials. His 44.73 run to make the Olympic team was just off his 44.53 personal best from 2014. 

David Verburg
Age: 25
Hometown: Lynchburg, Virginia

Verburg has been a valuable member of the U.S. 4x400-meter relays that won gold at the 2013 and ’15 world championships. Now he will have a chance to display his talent on the individual level.

800 meters

Clayton Murphy
Age: 21
Hometown: New Paris, Ohio

Last year, Murphy made his first U.S. national team by chance as two-time Olympian Nick Symmonds protested a statement of conditions form that limited his ability to represent his sponsors and he refused to sign the paperwork. Murphy was called in as his replacement and he was the lone American to reach the semifinal of the world championships in Beijing. Murphy went on to win the NCAA title in the 1,500 meters as a junior for Akron in June. He decided to forego his remaining eligibility to sign a contract with Nike. Rio will be his first Olympics.

Boris Berian
Age: 23
Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colo.

Last July, Boris Berian failed to make the U.S. Olympic team despite having previously run the fastest time on the year by an American. He made up for the early exit at the U.S. championships by running 1:43.34 to become the fifth-fastest American 800-meter runner. Less than two years ago he was working at McDonald’s, yet he continued his breakout by winning gold at the 2016 world indoor championships in March. He was sued by Nike over a contract dispute but the sportswear apparel company dropped its lawsuit ahead of the trials. Berian’s fight against Nike was applauded by many within the sport as another case that brought attention to athlete sponsorship issues in track and field.

Charles Jock
Age: 26
Hometown: San Diego, Calif.

Jock is headed to his first Olympics just four years after winning the NCAA title at 800 meters for UC Irvine. He represented the United States at the 2011 world championships but failed to make it out of the first round in Daegu, South Korea.

1500 meters

Matthew Centrowitz
Age: 26
Hometown: Annapolis, Md.

Centrowitz still seeks an Olympic medal despite owning a bronze and silver medal in the 1,500 from the 2011 and 2013 world championships, respectively. He took fourth at the 2012 Olympics as compatriot Leo Manzano, who missed the 2016 team with a fourth place finish at the trials, earned silver. Centrowitz set personal bests in the 800 (1:44.62); 1,500 (3:30.40); mile (3:50.53) and 5,000 (13:20.06) since the London Olympics. 

Robby Andrews
Age: 25
Hometown: Manalapan Township, N.J.

Andrews missed the 2012 Olympic team by less than half a second and decided to forego his remaining NCAA eligibility at Virginia to turn professional. He struggled mightily in 2013 before starting to progress in 2014. By 2015, he developed a strong kick in the final lap of races that put him on his first world championship team, where he reached the final and took 11th. Andrews is hitting his stride at the right time and could reach the finals of the 2016 Olympics.

Ben Blankenship
Age: 26
Hometown: Stillwater, Minn.

Blankenship says that he has never watched the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials 1,500 meter final. At the time, he was recovering from a series of injuries and escavating in Colorado. He returned to running and worked well under coach Mark Rowland, a steeplechase bronze medalist at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. He boasts a 3:35.48 personal best, which could improve before the Olympics. Blankenship does have a world record on his resume as he anchored Team USA to the distance medley relay (1200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters and 1600 meters) world record of 9:15.50 at the IAAF World Relays (not a global championship) in 2015.

Andy Lyons/Getty Images

3,000-meter steeplechase

Evan Jager
Age: 27
Hometown: Algonquin, Ill.

Jager looks to end a 31-year medal drought by the United States at the Olympics. Jager holds the American record in the event from his 8:00.45 from the 2015 Paris Diamond League meet despite falling over the final barrier. Jager made his Olympic debut in London when he finished sixth in the final after leading for a few laps. He has also placed fifth at the 2013 world championships and sixth at last summer's world championships. If there is an American steeplechaser that is ready to take down the East Africans, it is Jager.

Hilary Bor
Age: 26
Hometown: Eldoret, Kenya

Bor was born in Kenya and competed at Iowa State. He obtained U.S. citizenship as a member of the U.S. Army WCAP program in 2013. He used a big move from fifth place into second on the final lap to post a personal best of 8:24.10.

Donn Cabral
Age: 26
Hometown: Glastonbury, Conn.

Cabral was coming off an incredible collegiate season for Princeton when he made the 2012 Olympic team. In London, he joined Jager toward the front of the race and led for a few laps. He finished eighth. Cabral also competed at last summer's world championships in Beijing, where he finished 10th overall. 

5000 meters

Bernard Lagat
Age: 41
Hometown: Tucson, Ariz.

Lagat is headed to his fifth Olympics and will become the oldest U.S. distance runner in history. He won a bronze and silver in the 1500 meters at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, respectively, while competing for Kenya. He became an American citizen in 2005 and went on to compete in Beijing and London. Last summer, he missed his first global championship in 10 years but a 52-second last lap to win the 2016 Olympic Trials 5,000 meter final made up for any disappointment. 

Hassan Mead
Age: 26
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minn.

Mead will head to his first Olympics just one year after making his first U.S. national team and competing at the world championships in Beijing. Mead finished 15th in the 10,000 meters at last summer's world championships. He missed the 10,000 meter team for Rio but rebounded to make the 5,000 team. Mead was born in Somalia and emigrated to the United States as a child. His family settled in Minneapolis before he became a high school star and went on to earn several All-American honors at Minnesota.

Paul Chelimo
Age: 25
Hometown: Chebiemit, Kenya

Chelimo is just one year removed from earning his United States citizenship as he joined the U.S. Army WCAP progam. He showed great potential during indoor season as he finished second at the U.S. championships and went on to place seventh in the 3,000 meters at the world indoor championships. Chelimo accidentally took sleeping medication instead of Ibuprofen ahead of the semi-final but safely advanced and will now compete in his first Olympics.

10,000 meters

Galen Rupp
Age: 30 years old
Hometown: Portland, Ore.

Rupp, the defending Olympic silver medalist in this event, won the 10,000 meters to win his second U.S. Olympic Trials. Rupp’s schedule for Rio will be a busy one as he plans to run the 10,000 meters on Aug. 13 and then the marathon eight days later on Aug. 21 (he won February’s U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in 2:11:13). Last summer, a report by ProPublica and the BBC report alleged Alberto Salazar, Rupp’s coach, pushed the boundaries on doping rules to gain a competitive advantage. Rupp and Salazar have denied all allegations.

Shadrack Kipchirchir
Age: 27
Hometown: Iten, Kenya

Kipchirchir stayed on Rupp's heels until he tried to take the lead into the final lap. He finished second and qualifies for his first U.S. Olympic team. Kipchirchir ran at Oklahoma State before committing to the U.S. Army WCAP program, which allows him to represent the U.S.

Leonard Korir
Age: 29
Hometown: Iten, Kenya

A third-place finish secures Korir's first Olympic team berth. He is also a member of the Army WCAP program.

110-meter hurdles

Devon Allen
Age: 21
Hometown: Phoenix, Ariz.

Allen made Hayward Field sound like Autzen Stadium as he won the 110-meter hurdles in a personal best of 13.03 seconds. Allen won his first U.S. national title in 2014 but there was no world championship or Olympics that year. He returned to football in the fall and suffered a knee injury that would force him to miss the 2015 outdoor track season. He returned and won the 2016 NCAA title in the 110-meter hurdles and downed an Olympic trials final field that included Olympic gold medalist Aries Merritt and silver medalist Jason Richardson.

Ronnie Ash
Age: 28
Hometown: Knightdale, North Carolina

Ash will look to use Rio as a way to make up for his false start and disqualification at last summer's world championships. Ash failed to make it out of the semifinals at the 2012 Olympic Trials.

Jeff Porter
Age: 30
Hometown: Somerset, N.J.

Porter pulled off another close third-place finish at the trials. In 2012, he took the final Olympic berth with a personal best of 13.08, which he has not improved upon since then. He was the lone American to not reach the finals of the 2012 Olympics in London. He is married to British Olympian Tiffany Porter.

400-meter hurdles

Kerron Clement
Age: 30
Hometown: LaPorte, Texas

Clement is headed to his third Olympics. He owns a silver medal from the 400 meter hurdles in 2008 and a gold medal as a member of the men's 4x400-meter relay. He returned to the Summer Games in London and took eighth in the final.

Byron Robinson
Age: 21
Hometown: Chesapeake, Virg.

Robinson was another surprise to make the Olympic team considering Johnny Dutch, who held the world's fastest time of 2016, was leading after the final hurdle but tied up and faded to fifth place. Robinson, who did not compete at the NCAA championships, entered 2016 with a 50.42 personal best and is now down to 48.79 and on the U.S. Olympic team.

Michael Tinsley
Age: 32
Hometown: Little Rock, Ark.

Tinsley will be the top returner from the 2012 Olympics after Olympic gold medalist Felix Sanchez announced his retirement earlier in the summer. After London, he earned a silver medal at the 2013 world championships in Moscow.

Pole Vault

Sam Kendricks
Age: 23
Hometown: Oxford, Miss.

Kendricks is head and shoulders above the rest of the the U.S. pole vaulters at the moment, as he set the U.S. Olympic Trials record with a 5.91-meter (19' 4 ¾") clearance. He was a two-time NCAA champion in the pole vault for Ole Miss and was a finalist at last summer’s world championships in Beijing. In March, he won a silver medal at the 2016 world indoor championships.

Cale Simmons
Age: 25
Hometown: Rocklin, Calif.

Simmons just graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2013. He did not clear a height at the 2012 Olympic Trials and four years later finished second with a 5.65 meter clearance.

Logan Cunningham
Age: 25
Hometown: Smithson Valley​, Texas

Cunningham also did not clear a height at the 2012 Olympic Trials. He cleared 5.60 meters on his first try and it was enough for him to make the Olympic team.

Long jump

Jeffrey Henderson
Age: 27
Hometown: McAlmont, Arkansas

Henderson won his first U.S. title at his first Olympic Trials. He competed at last summer’s world championships and finished ninth.

Jarrion Lawson
Age: 22
Hometown: Texarkana, Texas

Lawson matched Jesse Owens’s three victories from 1936 in the 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump at the NCAA Championships. Owens accomplished the feat before winning all three events at the Olympics. Lawson will focus on the long jump in Rio.

Marquise Dendy
Age: 23
Hometown: Middleton, Dela.

Dendy is just two years removed from a well-accomplished career at Florida, where he won the NCAA titles in the long jump and triple jump in 2014 and ’15. He now gets his first opportunity to add an Olympic medal to the collection.

Triple Jump

Will Claye
Age: 25
Hometown Phoenix, Ariz.

Claye rebounded well after missing the Olympic team in the long jump. His 17.65 jump on his fifth attempt of the afternoon gave him the victory over Olympic champion Christian Taylor. At the 2012 Olympics, Claye took silver behind Taylor and also earned a bronze medal in the long jump. Claye has also won triple jump bronze medals at the 2011 and 2013 world championships.

Christian Taylor
Age: 26
Hometown: Fayetteville, Ga.

Taylor eyes the world record and Olympic gold in Rio after his 18.21-meter leap at last summer's world championships in Beijing made him the second-best jumper of all-time. His gold medal at the 2012 Olympics was the first by an American since Kenny Harrison upset world record holder Jonathan Edwards at the 1996 Olympics. 

Chris Benard
Age: 26
Hometown: Corona, Calif.

Benard qualified for his first Olympic team by jumping a personal best of 17.21 meters and held off former NCAA star and world championship finalist Omar Craddock. Benard was 11th at the 2012 Olympic Trials and has never represented the U.S. at a global championship.

Shot put

Ryan Crouser
Age: 23
Hometown: Boring, Ore.

Crouser was a two-time NCAA champion in the shot put for indoor and outdoor track when he attended University of Texas. Earlier this summer, he improved his personal best to 22.11 m (72' 6 1⁄2"), which ranks second in the world for 2016—behind Joe Kovacs.

Joe Kovacs
Age: 27 years old
Hometown: Bethlehem, Penn.

Four years after missing the Olympic team by one spot, Kovacs is headed to his first Olympics as a gold-medal contender. The reigning world champion and former Penn State star is coming off a stellar 2015 season in which he threw 22.56 meters, which ranks as the eighth best throw in history and best since 2015.

Darrell Hill
Age: 22
Hometown: Darby, Penn.

Hill joins Kovacs as another former Penn State shot putter to make the 2016 U.S. Olympic team. His best finish at the NCAA championships was a second-place showing in 2015.

Javelin

Cyrus Hostetler
Age: 29
Hometown: Newburg, Ore.

Hostetler heads to his second Olympics after finishing 32nd in the qualifying round at the 2012 Olympics in London. After his victory at the 2016 trials, he said his goal will be to make the final in Rio.

Curtis Thompson
Age: 20
Hometown: Florence, N.J.

Thompson continues his strong 2016 campaign with a trip to the Olympics. In June, he won the the NCAA title for Mississippi State.

Riley Dolezal
Age: 30
Hometown: Stanley, N.D.

Dolezal has now made back-to-back U.S. national teams. He competed at last summer’s world championships and finished 24th in the qualifying round. He won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Decathlon

Ashton Eaton
Age: 28
Hometown: Bend, Ore.

Eaton to become the first man to win back-to-back Olympic medals in the decathlon since 1984 after securing his spot in Rio. He won the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials with a world record of 9,039 points, which he improved to 9,045 points in his world championship win last summer in Beijing.

Jeremy Taiwo
Age: 26
Hometown: Ballard, Wash.

Taiwo qualified for his first Olympics with his runner-up finish at the trials. He was the 2013 NCAA Outdoor runner-up at Washington before making his world championship debut in Moscow, where he did not finish the 10 events. He also did not finish at last summer's world championships in Beijing.

Zach Ziemeck
Age: 23
Hometown: Itasca, Ill.

Ziemeck, who just finished his senior season at Wisconsin, finished the first day of competition in third place and hung on for the final spot to Rio.

Matt Slocum/AP

Women

100 meters

English Gardner
Age: 24
Hometown: Voorhees, N.J.

Gardner is building her case to contend for the gold medal at the Olympics. She was a star at Oregon before turning professional and winning the 2013 U.S. National crown at 100 meters. She went on to finish fourth at the 2013 world championships in Moscow. She also competed at the world championships last summer but did not make it out of the semifinals. Her 10.74 is the second-fastest in the world behind Jamaica's Elaine Thompson, who ran 10.70 at the Jamaican national championships.

Tianna Bartoletta
Age: 30
Hometown: Elyria, Ohio

Bartoletta faces a much easier schedule than the Olympic trials where she qualified for Rio in the long jump and the 100 meters in less than 24 hours. She was fourth in the 100 meters at the 2012 Olympics.  Last summer, she won gold at the world championships in the long jump. She was a member of the women’s 4x100-meter relay that set the world record of 40.82.

Tori Bowie
Age: 25
Hometown: Hattiesburg, Miss.

Bowie, who primarily focused on the long jump until 2014, has blossomed as the United States’s latest sprint sensation as she clocked the fastest time in 2014 and won a bronze medal at the 2015 world championships in Beijing in the 100 meters.

400 meters

Andy Lyons/Getty Images

Allyson Felix
Age: 30
Hometown: Santa Clarita, Calif.

Felix ran 49.68 seconds on an injured ankle for the world’s fastest 400 meters of 2016, and she’s looking to become the first American woman to win gold in the women’s 200 and 400 meters. Michael Johnson won gold in the same events at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Felix won gold medals in the women’s 4x400-meter relay at the Beijing and London Olympics but has never raced the event individually at the Summer Games.

Phyllis Francis
Age: 24
Hometown: Queens, New York

Francis will wear the red, white and blue just one year after placing seventh at the world championships for 400 meters. She earned a silver medal as a member of the women's 4x400-meter relay. She won the 2014 NCAA indoor title at 400 meters while at Oregon.

Natasha Hasting
Age: 29
Hometown: Rosedale, New York

Hastings returns to the Olympics for the first time since 2008 as she missed the 2012 Summer Games due to . She was a member of the women's 4x400-meter relay team that won gold in Beijing. She owns a personal best of 49.84 seconds for the 400.

800 meters

Kate Grace
Age: 27
Hometown: Santa Monica, Calif.

Grace won her first U.S. national title with her impressive 1:59.10 win in the Olympic trials 800-meter victory. Grace was a star in the Ivy League for Yale and continued running post-collegiately after an Olympic trials appearance in 2012. This has been a marquee year for Grace as she lowered her personal best in the 800 meters with her trials victory and has run 4:05.65 for the 1,500.

Ajee’ Wilson
Age: 22
Hometown: Neptune, N.J.

Wilson has been a star for the U.S. 800-meter runners since her days at Neptune High School in New Jersey. She made the 2013 world championship final at 19 years old and ran an American Junior Record (U-20) of 1:58.21 to finish sixth. She improved in 2014 and ran 1:57.67 for the world’s fastest time of that year. Wilson is headed to her first Olympics.

Chrishuna Williams
Age: 23
Hometown: Dallas, Texas

Williams is just one year removed from running at Arkansas. She has been one of the biggest surprises in U.S. middle distance running as she previously focused on sprinting 400 meters before shifting her focus to the 800. The decision to transition to the longer distance has paid off as her 1:59.59 personal best put her on her first Olympic team.

3,000-meter steeplechase

Emma Coburn
Age: 25
Hometown: Crested Butte​, Colo.

Coburn is the American record in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase with her 9:10.76 run from June's Prefontaine Classic, which still ranks as the world's third fastest time. Coburn may be a contender to deliver the United States' first Olympic medal in the steeplechase, which was only added for women in 2008. Coburn was fifth at last year's world championships. She was ninth at the 2012 Olympics, when she was the youngest U.S. runner on Team USA at 21. 

Courtney Frerichs
Age: 23
Hometown: Nixa, Missouri

Frerichs has had a long and successful season. In the fall, she was a member of New Mexico's NCAA championship winning cross-country team. Her boyfriend proposed to her after the race. Frerichs broke Jenny Simpson's collegiate record of 9:25.54  by winning the NCAA outdoor title in 9:24.41. Upon graduation, she signed a professional contract with Nike and will train with her Olympic teammate Colleen Quigley on the Bowerman Track Club. 

Colleen Quigley
Age: 23
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri

Quigley gave up a modeling career to focus on her running while at Florida State. She will be headed to her second U.S. national team after finishing 12th at last summer's world championships in Beijing. Despite having missed most of the outdoor season due to injury, her training over the last six weeks saw great improvement and she set a personal best of 9:21.29 to make the Olympic team.

10,000 meters

Molly Huddle
Age: 31
Hometown: Elmira, New York

Huddle heads to her second U.S. Olympic team after finishing 11th in the 5,000 meters in London. She owns the American record at 5,000 meters with a personal best of 14:42.64, which she ran in 2014. She has shifted her focus to the longer distances and could contend for a medal in Rio. Last summer, she prematurely celebrated in the women's 10,000-meter final and was edged out for bronze by compatriot Emily Infeld.

Emily Infeld
Age: 26
Hometown: University Heights, Ohio

Infeld did not race before the trials but managed to hang tough for a second-place finish. She heads to her second global championship just one year after taking bronze at last summer's world championships. The former Georgetown Hoya has been injury prone for most of her career but when healthy, she can contend with the best in the world.

Marielle Hall
Age: 24
Hometown: Haddonfield, New Jersey

Hall will take part in her first Olympics in the 10,000 meters after running the event for just the second time. Hall earned All-American honors (2012-13) and was a stand-out athlete at Texas. She competed in the 5,000 meters at last summer's world championships.

High jump

Chaunte Lowe
Age: 32
Hometown: Riverside, Calif.

Lowe is headed to her third Olympics, where he has finished sixth in 2008 and 2012. She has held the American record of 2.05 meters since 2010. She has already competed in Rio as she jumped a then-world lead of 1.96 meters in May.

Vashti Cunningham
Age: 18
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev.

Cunningham, coached by her father, former NFL quarterback and her coach Randall Cunningham, is just 18 years old and graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. In Rio, she will be the youngest U.S. track and field since 1976. If she medals at the Olympics, she would be the youngest to do so since 1972. She already owns a gold medal from the world indoor championships.

Inika McPherson
Age: 29
Hometown: Port Arthur, Texas

McPherson may soon add Olympic rings to her vast collection of tattoos on her body as she made her first Olympic team. She served a 21-month suspension after testing positive for cocaine in 2014.

Long jump

Brittney Reese
Age: 29
Hometown: Gulfport, Miss.

Reese, who is nicknamed “The Beast,” will be out to defend her Olympic title in Rio de Janeiro after leaping 7.31 meters with a legal wind reading to move up to a tie for ninth on the all-time world list. She also ties Marion Jones for second on the U.S. alltime list. Only Jackie Joyner-Kersee is ahead of her now on the all-time list with her 7.49-meter jump in 1994. The leap was also the best in the world since 2002.

Tianna Bartoletta

(See the women's 100 meters)

Janay DeLoach
Age: 30
Hometown: Eielson AFB, Alaska

DeLoach has a chance to improve upon her silver medal from the London Olympics. Since London, she finished 11th in the long jump at the 2013 world championships and eighth last summer.

Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images

Discus

Whitney Ashley
Age: 27
Hometown: Moreno Valley, Calif.

Ashley will compete in her first Olympics just four years after winning the NCAA title for San Diego State. She was a finalist at last year's world championships and finished ninth overall.

Shelbi Vaughan
Age: 21
Hometown: Azle, Texas

Vaughan has fared well in international competition since winning gold as a youth athlete 2011 and then as a junior athlete in 2012. She won two NCAA titles for Texas A&M.

Kelsey Card
Age: 23
Hometown: Plainview, Ill.

Card is coming off a strong collegiate season with the Wisconsin Badgers as she won the 2016 NCAA crown with a 63.52 meter throw. She took third at the trials to qualify for her first Olympics.

Women's 3,000 meter steeplechase

Emma Coburn

Age: 25

Hometown: Crested Butte​, Colorado

Coburn is the American record in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase with her 9:10.76 run from June's Prefontaine Classic, which still ranks as the world's third fastest time. Coburn may be a contender to deliver the United States' first Olympic medal in the steeplechase, which was only added for women in 2008. Coburn was fifth at last year's world championships. She was ninth at the 2012 Olympics, when she was the youngest U.S. runner on Team USA at 21. 

Courtney Frerichs

Age: 23

Hometown: Nixa, Missouri

Frerichs has had a long and successful season. In the fall, she was a member of New Mexico's NCAA championship winning cross-country team. Her boyfriend proposed to her after the race. Frerichs broke Jenny Simpson's collegiate record of 9:25.54  by winning the NCAA outdoor title in 9:24.41. Upon graduation, she signed a professional contract with Nike and will train with her Olympic teammate Colleen Quigley on the Bowerman Track Club. 

Colleen Quigley

Age: 23

Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri

Quigley gave up a modeling career to focus on her running while at Florida State. She will be headed to her second U.S. national team after finishing 12th at last summer's world championships in Beijing. Despite having missed most of the outdoor season due to injury, her training over the last six weeks saw great improvement and she set a personal best of 9:21.29 to make the Olympic team.

Women's 100-meter hurdles

Brianna Rollins

Age: 24

Hometown: Miami, Florida

Rollins came out of Clemson as the NCAA champion and one of the best U.S. hurdlers in history. She set the former American record of 12.26 at the 2013 U.S. championships before she went on to win gold at the 2013 world championships in Moscow. She also competed at last summer's world championships in Beijing but failed to make it out of the finals. Rio will be her first Olympics. 

Kristi Castlin

​Age: 28

Hometown: Douglasville, Georgia

Castlin has managed to keep up with the evolving state of the women's hurdles as many of the top times have been run by recent college graduates. Castlin has not competed in a U.S. national kit since the 2012 world indoor championships. She set a personal best of 12.50 for the first time since 2012.

Nia Ali

​Age: 27

Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ali makes her first U.S. Olympic team just four months after defending her world indoor title in the 60-meter hurdles. The victory came less than a year after she gave birth to a son named Titus.

Men's discus

Mason Finley

Age: 25

Hometown: Buena Vista, Colorado

Mason Finley made his first U.S. Olympic team after winning the discus competition with a 63.42-meter (208"1') throw. He competed for Kansas from 2010-12 before transferring to Wyoming but he wore a Jayhawks shirt in competition at the trials.

Tavis Bailey

Age: 24

Hometown: Kannapolis, North Carolina

The former Tennessee Vol made his first Olympic team after throwing the discus 61.57 meters (202") on his first throw. He finished second in the discus at the 2015 NCAA championships.

Andrew Evans

Age: 25

Hometown: Portage, Michigan

Evans threw 61.22 meters (200"10') on his first throw of the day and managed to hold onto the third spot in qualifying. He was a two-time SEC champion at Kentucky.

Women's javelin

Maggie Malone

Age: 22

Hometown: Geneva, Nebraska

Malone hails from a city with one traffic light and will head to her first Olympics after winning the U.S. Olympic Trials with a 60.84 (199'7") throw. The Texas A&M star set the collegiate record of 62.19 meters (204") at the NCAA Championships.

Hannah Carson

Age: 23

Hometown: Chandler, Arizona

Carson was the NCAA runner-up behind Malone in June and her 58.19-meter (190'11") throw secured her place on her first Olympic team.

Kara Winger

Age: 30

Hometown: Vancouver, Washington

Winger is headed to her third Olympics after nabbing the third spot at the Olympic Trials. She finished 41st at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing before improving in London with a 31st place showing.

Women's Pole Vault

Jenn Suhr

​Age: 34

Hometown: Fredonia, New York

Suhr is the reigning Olympic champion and holds the world indoor record for the pole vault. She may be the favorite to repeat for gold in Rio as Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, the 2004 and 2008 Olympic pole vault champion, may not compete due to the Russian national team's doping suspension for international competition.

Sandi Morris

Age: 24

Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina

Morris won just one indoor NCAA title while at Arkansas. She hit her stride as a professional when she qualified for her first U.S. national team and finished fourth at last year's world championships and then took silver at March's world indoor championships. She overcame an injury at the start of the season to make her first U.S. Olympic team.

Alexis Weeks

Age: 19

Hometown: Cabot, Arkansas

Weeks is having a strong year following in the footsteps of Morris at Arkansas. She captured the NCAA indoor and outdoor title before a personal best 4.70-meter vault put her third at the trials and on her first Olympic team with her training partner.

Men's High Jump

Erik Kynard

​Age: 25

Hometown: Toledo, Ohio

Kynard earned a bronze medal in the high jump at the 2012 Olympics. In the years that followed, several athletes have literally raised the bar in the event and attempted to break Javier Sotomayor's 2.45-meter world record. Kynard has not quote kept up as he finished fifth at the 2013 world championships and tied for eighth last summer in Beijing. There is still medal potential in Rio.

Kyle Landon

Age: 21

Hometown: Chester, Illinois

Landon has never won an NCAA title but is headed to his first Olympic team. His best finish for Souther Illinois is a third place finish at the 2014 NCAA championship. After jumping 2.20 meters in 2014 and 2015, Landon broke out for a personal best of 2.26 meters at the trials to secure an Olympic team berth.

Bradley Adkins

Age: 22

Hometown: Idalou, Texas

Adkins was the NCAA runner-up for Texas Tech after setting a personal best of 2.25 meters at the 2015 NCAA championships. This year, he finished sixth at the NCAA championships but took third at the trials to head to his first Olympics.

Women's 400 meter hurdles

Dalilah Muhammad

Age: 26

Hometown: Jamaica, New York

Muhammad won her first U.S. Olympic Trials in 2016 to compete in her first Olympics. She is a silver medalist in the 400 meter hurdles from the 2013 world championships in Moscow. 

Ashley Spencer

Age: 23

Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana

Spencer finally settled on the 400 meter hurdles after winning two NCAA titles at 400 meters for Texas. She finished seventh in the Olympic trials 400 meter final and rebounded to make the hurdle squad with a personal best of 54.02. 

Sydney McLaughlin

Age: 16

Hometown: Scotch Plains, New Jersey

McLaughlin will be the youngest U.S. Olympian on the track since 1972. McLaughlin will turn 17 on Aug. 7, which is two days after the opening ceremonies and five days before track and field competition starts on Aug. 12. Her personal best of 54.15​ in the Olympic Trials final set a new world youth and world junior record. She is the soxth fastest in the world for 2016.

Women's 5,000 meters

Shelby Houlihan

Age: 23

Hometown: Sioux City, Iowa

Houlihan capped off a perfect weekend for coach Jerry Schumacher as all seven women that he coaches at the Olympic trials, managed to make the Olympic team. Houlihan won an NCAA title at 1,500 meters as an Arizona State junior in 2014. Under Schumacher, she has lowered her personal bests in the 1,500 (4:03.39) and 5,000 (15:06.14) in 2016. Rio will be her first Olympic team.

Kim Conley

Age: 30

Hometown: Santa Rosa, California

Conley returns to the Olympic team to tackle the same 5,000 meter distance where she competed in just the first round but set a then-personal best of 15:14.48. She is now down to 15:08.61. She won the 2014 U.S. outdoor title at 10,000 meters but missed the 2015 season due to injury. She tried to make the 10,000 team for Rio but stopped on the track to adjust her shoe and was never able to rejoin the lead pack.

Abbey D'Agostino

​Age: 23

Hometown: Topsfield, Massachusetts

D'Agostino has been a budding star since her NCAA days at Dartmouth, where she won seven NCAA titles. D'Agostino was a part of the dramatic 2012 Olympic Trials 5,000 meter final that resulted in her missing the Olympic team by .19 seconds. She struggled with injuries at the beginning of her professional career but managed to qualify for the world championships in the 5,000 meters at the 2015 world championships in Beijing. Rio will be her first Olympic team.

Women's 1,500 meters

Jenny Simpson

Age: 29

Hometown: Oviedo, Florida

Simpson has made every world championship or U.S. Olympic team since 2007. She has yet to win an Olympic medal but owns a world championship gold medal from 2011 and a silver medal from 2013. She lowered her personal best to 3:57.22 in 2014, which ranks as the third-best of all-time by an American woman. She lost her shoe in last summer's 1,500 meter final in Beijing and placed 11th.

Shannon Rowbury

​Age: 31

Hometown: San Francisco, California

Rowbury took sixth in the 2012 Olympic 1,500 meter final behind several athletes that have since tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. She gets an opportunity at redemption in Rio de Janeiro and will head to Brazil as the American record holder with her 3:56.29 personal best from last summer's Diamond League in Monaco. 

Brenda Martinez

Age: 28

Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga, California

Martinez capped off a rollercoaster of emotions by diving at the finish line for the third and final spot to Rio by .03 seconds ahead of Amanda Eccleston. Just six days earlier, she knocked off her stride in a tangle with Olympian Alysia Montano in the final 200 meters of the women's 800 meter final . Montano hit the ground and Martinez was unable to recover to catch the competition ahead of her and finished seventh. The Hayward Field crowd errupted as Martinez fell at the end of the 1,500 with a much different result and a spot on her first Olympic team.

Women's 200 meters

Tori Bowie won the women's 200 and also qualified for the women's 100 meters, which can be seen above.

Deajah Stevens

Age: 21

Hometown: Bayside, New York

Stevens is just a sophomore at Oregon and used the home-field advantage to catapault herself onto her first Olympic team just a month after finishing second at the NCAA championships. With the Olympic team berth, she became the first female Oregon Duck to make Team USA while still in college.

Jenna Prandini

​Age: 23

Hometown: Clovis, California

Prandini gave it her all and a fall at the finish line was just enough for her torso to beat Allyson Felix, which dashed the reigning Olympic champion's hopes to double in the 200 and 400 in Rio. Prandini will wear the Team USA uniform just one year after winning a silver medal in the 4x100-meter relay.