Matthew Boling
American track and field athlete (born 2000) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Matthew Boling (born June 20, 2000) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the sprints and long jump. He won four gold medals at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships in the 100 m, 200 m, 4 × 100 m relay and 4 × 400 m relay, and helped set world under-20 records in both of the relay races for the United States. He also ran in the semi-final for the American 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2018 World U20 Championships that went on to earn silver in the final. Boling would later go on to win a gold medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the mixed 4 x 400 m relay, and would help set a world record for the event in the process.
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Born | (2000-06-20) June 20, 2000 (age 23)[1] United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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College team | Georgia Bulldogs[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Caryl Smith Gilbert [4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on August 19, 2023; 9 months ago (August 19, 2023) |
Boling gained national attention during the spring of 2019 for his accomplishments in high school track and field. In March, he leaped the farthest in the long jump for a high school athlete in ten years with a 26' 3.5" (8.01 m) mark at the Texas Relays,[5] and then bested the high school all-conditions 100 m record, breaking the 10-second barrier with a wind-assisted 9.98 seconds run on April 27, 2019. Boling finished his high school track career in May at the Texas state championships by running a 44.74 second anchor in the 4 × 400 m relay for the Strake Jesuit Crusaders, coming from behind to win in the fastest time for a high school team in the nation that year (3:10.56)[6][7]