2025 World Track and Field Championships

Saturday, September 13th - Sunday, September 21st, 2025

Tokyo, Japan

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Blog by James J. O'Brien

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Saturday, September 13th, 2025

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NYAC Athletes in Tokyo - Bios and Results

Valarie Allman (Discus)

Valarie Allman

Event: Discus
Birthday: February 23^rd, 1995
Hometown: Hershey, PA
College: Stanford University, Bachelor’s in Product Design ‘17

Career Highlights
Two-time Olympic discus champion (2020, 2024); North American record-holder (73.52m at Oklahoma Throws Series in Ramona, OK in April 2025); 2023 World Championships silver medalist; 2022 World Championships bronze medalist, five-time Diamond league champion (2021-2025)

Valarie is currently the top-ranked female discus thrower in the world. Her personal best of 73.52m ranks as the farthest throw in the world in over 35 years. She lives in Austin, TX.

Results from 2025 World Championships

Brooke Andersen (Hammer)

Brooke Andersen

Event: Hammer
Birthday: August 23^rd, 1995
Hometown: Vista, CA
College: Northern Arizona University, Bachelor’s in Environmental Science ‘18

Career Highlights
Tokyo 2020 Olympian; 2022 World Championships hammer champion; 2023 national champion; 2019 Pan American Games silver medalist

Brooke is currently ranked fourth in the world for women’s hammer. Her personal best of 80.17m (May 2023) places her third in the world all-time list, behind only Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland (82.98m; 2016) and NYAC teammate Deanna Price (80.31m; 2021).

Results from 2025 World Championships

Lauren Harris (20K Race Walk)

Lauren Harris

Event: 20K Race Walk
Birthday: July 23^rd, 1999
Hometown: Holtsville, NY
College: Marist College ‘21

Career Highlights
In August 2025, Lauren claimed the 20K race walk US national title and set an American record of 1:31:23 in the event. Earlier in the year, she secured the US indoor 3K race walk national title with a finish of 13:23.83.

When she isn’t training, she works as a high school math teacher and middle school cross country and track coach on Long Island.

Results from 2025 World Championships

Miranda Melville (35K Race Walk)

Miranda Melville

Event: 35K Race Walk
Birthday: March 20^th, 1989
Hometown: Rush, NY
College: University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Bachelor’s in Psychology and Biology ‘11

Career Highlights
Rio 2016 Olympian; two-time USATF outdoor 20K race walk champion (2014, 2015); USATF outdoor 20K race walk silver medalist (2017); three-time USATF indoor 3K race walk champion (2019, 2023, 2024); 2023 USATF 35K race walk champion

Miranda is currently ranked 122nd in the world as a 35k race walker. She also is a voracious reader and enjoys hiking.

Results from 2025 World Championships

Deanna Price (Hammer)

Deanna Price

Event: Hammer
Birthday: June 8th, 1993
Hometown: Moscow Mills, MO
College: Southern Illinois University, Bachelor's in Accounting '16

Career Highlights
Three-time Olympian (2016, 2020, 2024); American record-holder at 80.31m/263-6; 2019 World Championships gold medalist; 2023 World Championships bronze medalist; 2023 Pan Am Games champion; four-time national champion (2018, 2019, 2021, 2025); two-time NCAA champion

Deanna is currently ranked seventh in the world in the women’s hammer throw. She recorded the #2 all-time hammer throw mark in the world – 80.31m in August 2016. She is coached by her husband, James Lambert. In high school, Deanna was an accomplished softball player and threw both the discus and shot put.

Will Claye (Triple Jump)

Will Claye

Event: Triple Jump
Birthday: June 13th, 1991
Hometown: Tucson, AZ
College: University of Florida, Bachelor's in Entrepreneurship '12

Career Highlights
Three-time Olympian (2012, 2016, 2020); two-time Olympic triple jump silver medalist (2012, 2016); London 2012 Olympic long jump bronze medalist; two-time world indoor triple jump champion (2012, 2018); six-time triple jump national champion (outdoor: 2014, 2016, 2017; indoor: 2012, 2015, 2018); three-time world triple jump silver medalist (outdoor: 2017, 2019; indoor: 2012); world outdoor triple jump bronze medalist (2011)

Will is currently ranked 30th in the world as a triple jumper. In 2012, Will became the first American to secure Olympic medals in both the long and triple jumps at the same Games since Myer Prinstein in 1904. Additionally, Will is a Platinum recording musician and the owner of his own fashion label, “Elevate.”

Kyle Garland (Decathlon)

Kyle Garland

Event: Decathlon
Birthday: May 28th, 2000
Hometown: Philadephia, PA
College: University of Georgia

Career Highlights
Two-time National Championships medalist (gold in 2025, silver in 2022)

Plagued by injury in 2024, Garland exploded at the 2025 US National Championships with a personal best of 8869 to position himself as the #2 performer in the world this year. Now, he will test himself against the best decathletes in the world alongside NYAC teammate Harrison Williams.

Results from 2025 World Championships

Daniel Haugh (Hammer)

Daniel Haugh

Event: Hammer
Hometown: Marietta, GA
College: University of Alabama

Career Highlights
Two-time Olympian (2020, 2024); Six-time National Championships medalist (gold in 2022, 2024; silver in 2021, 2023; bronze in 2019, 2025)

Daniel, along with his NYAC teammate Rudy Winkler, has established himself as one of the two best hammer throwers in the US since claiming his first podium finish at the National Championships in 2019. Since then, he has made two Olympic team and has claimed national titles in 2022 and 2024, in addition to setting a world record in the indoor weight throw in 2024.

Results from 2025 World Championships

Salif Mane (Triple Jump)

Salif Mane

Event: Triple Jump
Birthday: December 12th, 2001
Hometown: Bronx, NY
College: Fairleigh Dickinson University

Career Highlights
Paris 2024 Olympian; two-time National Championships medalist (gold in 2024, silver in 2025)

At 23 years old, Salif has already accomplished a great deal in his young career. After winning the NCAA triple jump title in 2023, he won the 2024 Olympic Trials and placed sixth at the Paris Olympics in 2024. Now a member of the NYAC, Salif joins veteran Will Claye—a man whose form Salif studied as he perfected his craft—on the triple jump team with medal aspirations.

Results from 2025 World Championships

Sam Mattis (Discus)

Sam Mattis

Event: Discus
Birthday: March 19th, 1994
Hometown: East Brunswick, NJ
College: University of Pennsylvania

Career Highlights
Two-time Olympian (2020, 2024); six-time National Championships medalist (gold in 2019, 2023; silver in 2024, 2025; bronze in 2018, 2022)

Sam has entrenched himself as one of the top discus throwers in the US, making six consecutive US teams since 2019. In the midst of this success, he overcame a cancer diagnosis and has returned as strong as ever. This year, Sam reached new heights, setting a personal best of 71.27m/233-10 at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational in April.

Results from 2025 World Championships

Curtis Thompson (Javelin)

Curtis Thompson

Event: Javelin
Birthday: February 8th, 1996
Hometown: Trenton, NJ
College: Mississippi State University

Career Highlights
Two-time Olympian (2020, 2024); seven-time National Championships medalist (gold in 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025; silver in 2016, 2022)

Curtis is the lone male javelin thrower on the US team, but he gives the US a real chance at a medal in the event. He enters the competition in Tokyo on a high note, having won his fifth national title in August and setting a personal best mark of 87.76m/287-11 in March, the fourth best mark in the world this season.

Harrison Williams (Decathlon)

Harrison Williams

Event: Decathlon
Birthday: March 7th, 1996
Hometown: Memphis, TN
College: Stanford University

Career Highlights
Paris 2024 Olympian; five-time National Championships medalist (gold in 2023, bronze in 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025)

After placing seventh at the most recent World Championships (2023) and Olympics (2024), Williams is back on the global stage alongside NYAC teammate Kyle Garland, with aspirations to stand on the medal podium in Tokyo.

Rudy Winkler (Hammer)

Rudy Winkler

Event: Hammer
Birthday: December 6th, 1994
Hometown: Sand Lake, NY
College: Cornell University

Career Highlights
Three-time Olympian (2016, 2020, 2024); eight-time National Championships medalist (gold in 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2025; silver in 2019, 2022, 2024)

Rudy has dominated the US hammer throw scene for the last decade, and he shows no signs of slowing down. 2025 has been a tremendous season for Rudy; he has consistently broken the 80 meter barrier, and, in July, he broke his own US record with a throw of 83.16m/272-10, his longest throw in over four years.

NYAC Schedule

All days and times are
Eastern Standard.
NB: Tokyo is 13 hours ahead
of Eastern Standard.

Friday, September 12th
7pm: W 35K Race Walk (Final)
8pm: W Discus (Qual. Group A)
9:55pm: W Discus (Qual. Group B)

Saturday, September 13th
8pm: W Hammer (Qual. Group A)
9:45pm: W Hammer (Qual. Group B)

Sunday, September 14th
6:10am: W Discus (Final)
8pm: M Hammer (Qual. Group A)
9:45pm: M Hammer (Qual. Group B)

Monday, September 15th
8am: W Hammer (Final)

Tuesday, September 16th
8am: M Hammer (Final)

Wednesday, September 17th
6:05am: M TJ (Qualification)
6:10am: M Javelin (Qual. Group A)
7:45am: M Javelin (Qual. Group B)

Thursday, September 18th
6:23am: M Javelin (Final)

Friday, September 19th
7:50am: M TJ (Final)
6:30pm: W 20K Race Walk (Final)
8pm: M Discus (Qual. Group A)
Decathlon Day One, beginning at 8:25pm
9:35pm: M Discus (Qual. Group B)

Saturday, September 20th
Decathlon Day Two, beginning at 8:05pm

Sunday, September 21st
7am: M Discus (Final)