Grace Stark
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Stark at the 2018 Youth Summer Olympics
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Personal information | |
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Nationality | American |
Born | May 6, 2001 |
Height | 5'4" |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Hurdles |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 60m hurdles: 7.78 (Birmingham, 2022) 100m hurdles: 12.31 (Eugene, 2024) |
Grace Stark (born May 6, 2001) is an American hurdler.[1]
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Early life
From White Lake, Michigan, she attended Lakeland High School. As a junior in 2018, she won MHSAA Division 1 state championship titles over 100 metres and 100 metres hurdles. In the hurdles she ran the fastest time ever recorded by a Michigan high school athlete.[2][3] She attended the University of Florida.[4]
Career
Stark won the NCAA Indoor 60m hurdles title in 2022, having run a personal best 7.83 seconds in the heats and lowering it to 7.78 in the final.[5] This time equalled the collegiate record set by Brianna Rollins in 2013.[6] She missed competition time due to a broken leg sustained at the SEC Outdoor Championships in 2022.[7]
Stark went undefeated competing outdoors in the college season in 2024,[8] culminating with the NCAA Division 1 Outdoor 100m hurdles title in June 2024.[9] That month, she qualified for the final of the US Olympic Trials.[10] In the final, she finished third in a personal best time of 12.31 seconds to earn a place on the US team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[11]
She competed in the 100m hurdles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, reaching the finals, where she placed fifth overall.[12]
Competition results
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | |
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2024 | Summer Olympics[13] | Paris, France | 5th | 100 m hurdles | 12.43 |
References
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External links
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- Grace Stark at the United States Olympic Committee
- Grace Elizabeth Stark at Olympics.com
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- 2001 births
- Living people
- American female hurdlers
- African-American track and field athletes
- Florida Gators women's track and field athletes
- Track and field athletes from Michigan
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- 21st-century African-American sportswomen
- NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
- NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes for the United States