Kaylyn Brown
American athlete (born 2004)
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Kaylyn Brown (born December 31, 2004) is an American sprinter. She won a gold and silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the women 4 × 400 metres relay and mixed 4 × 400 metres relay.[1]
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| Born | December 31, 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sprints Relays | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Arkansas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400 m: 49.13 (Eugene, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early life
Brown attended Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.[2] Since 2023, she has attended the University of Arkansas.[3]
Career
She won a gold medal as part of the victorious Mixed 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.[4] In the preliminary round the team of Brown, Charlie Bartholomew, Madison Whyte and Will Sumner set a meeting record time of 3:18.65.[5]
In April 2024, she broke 50-seconds for the 400 metres for the first time, running 49.95 seconds during the Tom Jones Invitational held in Gainesville, Florida.[6] With the run she met the qualifying standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[7]
She ran a new personal best time of 49.47 seconds for the 400 metres at the SEC Outdoor Championships in Gainesville, Florida on May 11, 2024.[8][9] It placed her fourth all-time for a College athlete and was the fastest all-time performance by a 19-year-old American and second globally for her age, only behind East German athlete Grit Breuer who ran 49.42 in 1991.[10] At the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon on June 8, 2024 she lowered her personal best to 49.13 seconds.[11]
She competed in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics, winning the gold medal as part of the American relay team.[12][13][14] She also competed in the mixed 4 × 400 m relay at the Games, winning the silver medal.[15]
In June 2025, Brown finished fifth overall in the 400m at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon.[16] The following year, she qualified for the 2026 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, where was a member of the winning University of Arkansas 4 x 400 metres relay team.[17][18] That spring, she was part of an Arkansas 4 x 400 team that ran 3:22.06, the fifth fastest time in NCAA history.[19]
