Alexis Holmes
American athlete (born 2000)
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Alexis Holmes (born January 28, 2000) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres. She won gold medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Olympic Games as well the World Athletics Championships and World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 28, 2000 Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) |
| Sport | |
| Country | United States |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | 400 m |
| Club | Nike |
| Turned pro | 2022 |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 400 m: 49.77 (Saint-Denis, Paris 2024) |
Medal record | |
Early life
From Hamden, Connecticut,[2] Holmes attended Cheshire Academy.[3]
Career
2023
Holmes ran a personal best 400 m time of 50.32 in Memphis, Tennessee in August 2023.[4] She was selected for the American team for the 2023 World Athletics Championships and competed in the mixed 4 × 400 m relay.[5][6] She won a gold medal as the USA team set a new world record time of 3:08.80.[7] The world record time set by Holmes, Rosey Effiong, Matthew Boling and Justin Robinson was ratified by World Athletics in November 2023.[8] That month, a photograph taken of Holmes and Dutch athlete Femke Bol at the finish line taken by Sam Barnes was a finalist for the 2023 World Athletics Photograph of the Year award.[9]
2024
In February 2024, she won the US national indoor title over 400 metres with a championship record time of 50.34 in New Mexico.[10] She competed in the 400 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Championships in Glasgow and won the bronze medal in the final in a personal best time of 50.24 seconds.[11] She was part of the 4 × 400m relay team which won the silver medal in Glasgow.[12]
In April 2024, she was selected as part of the American team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.[13] She won the 400 metres at the 2024 BAUHAUS-galan in Stockholm on June 2, 2024.[14]
She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics over 400 metres in August 2024, running a personal best time of 49.77 seconds to place sixth in the final.[15] She also competed in the women's 4 × 400m relay at the Games, winning the gold medal with the American relay team.[16]
In December 2024, it was announced that she had signed up for the inaugural season of the Michael Johnson founded Grand Slam Track.[17]
2025
In February 2025, she retained her title at the 2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.[18] She was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where she won the silver medal in the final in 50.63 seconds, 0.03 seconds behind Great Britain's Amber Anning.[19][20][21] She also won gold in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay.[22] In April 2025, she competed at the inaugural Grand Slam Track event in Kingston, Jamaica in the Long Sprints category, placing fourth in the 400 metres in 50.12 seconds.[23] At the second 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Miami she finished third in the 400 metres with a time of 50.36 seconds on 2 May 2025.[24] She finished fifth in the final of the 400 metres at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 50.33 seconds.[25] She finished fourth at the 2025 Athletissima in wet conditions in Lausanne.[26]
She was subsequently selected for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in where she ran in the women's x 400 metres relay.[27][28] She also ran as the American team won the gold medal in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay in Tokyo.[29]
Statistics
Circuit performances
| Grand Slam Track results[30] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slam | Race group | Event | Pl. | Time | Prize money |
| 2025 Kingston Slam | Long sprints | 200 m | 6th | 23.33 | US$25,000 |
| 400 m | 4th | 50.12 | |||
| 2025 Miami Slam | Long sprints | 400 m | 3rd | 50.36 | US$25,000 |
| 200 m | 5th | 22.83 | |||
| 2025 Philadelphia Slam | Long sprints | 400 m | 4th | 51.02 | US$20,000 |
| 200 m | 6th | 22.97 | |||
International competitions
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Pan American U20 Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 2nd | 400 m | 52.59 | |
| 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:24.04 | WU20R | |||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 1st | Mixed 4 × 400 m relay | 3:08.80 | WR |
| – (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | DQ | TR24.7 | |||
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3rd | 400 m sh | 50.24 | PB |
| 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay sh | 3:25.34 | ||||
| World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:21.70 | ||
| Olympic Games | Paris, France | 6th | 400 m | 49.77 | PB | |
| 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:15.27 | AR | |||
| 2025 | World Indoor Championships | Nanjing, China | 2nd | 400 m | 50.63 | |
| 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:27.45 | ||||
| World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | Mixed 4 × 400 m relay | 3:08.80 | =CR | |
| 1st (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:22.53 |
NCAA
Holmes attended Penn State and was named Big Ten women's freshman of the year in 2019[31] before transferring and graduating from the University of Kentucky in 2022.[32]
Running for the Kentucky Wildcats, Holmes was part of a women's 4 × 400 m relay team that set a new college record time.[33] They also won the NCAA Division I title in 2022.[34]
| Year | Competition | Position | Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships | 5th | 200 m | 23.74 | ||
| 1st | 400 m | 52.14 | ||||
| 5th | 4 × 400 m | 3:41.39 | ||||
| NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships | 4th | 400 m | 52.37 | |||
| Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 5th | 200 m | 23.83 | |||
| 1st | 400 m | 52.17 | ||||
| Representing the Kentucky Wildcats (2020–2022) | ||||||
| 2020 | Southeastern Conference (SEC) Indoor Track and Field Championships | 1st | 400 m | 52.08 | ||
| 2nd | 4 × 400 m | 3:35.52 | ||||
| NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships[35] | All-American | 400 m | Cancelled by COVID-19 | |||
| All-American | 4 × 400 m | |||||
| 2022 | Southeastern Conference (SEC) Indoor Track and Field Championships | 1st | 400 m | 50.77 | ||
| 3rd | 4 × 400 m | 3:25.89 | ||||
| NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships | 4th | 400 m | 51.50 | |||
| 3rd | 4 × 400 m | 3:28.77 | ||||
| Southeastern Conference (SEC) Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 3rd | 400 m | 50.74 | |||
| 1st | 4 × 400 m | 3:21.93 | ||||
| NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships | 4th | 400 m | 50.71 | |||
| 1st | 4 × 400 m | 3:22.55 | ||||
