With the 2024 Summer Games in full swing, there is plenty of Olympic spirit across New Jersey.
And not all of it is focused on Team USA, as many Garden State athletes are competing for other nations around the world.
As the track and field events begin in Paris, here's our list of the 2024 Olympic track and field athletes with New Jersey ties:
Salif Mane
Track and field, United States
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A recent graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Mane won the triple jump at the Olympic Trials with a personal best 57-5¾ on June 30. Mane, who grew up in the Bronx, had already won the NCAA title with a 56-2.
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Jaden Marchan
Track and field, Trinidad and Tobago
Marchan, a recent graduate of Leonia High School, ran a personal-best 46.3 seconds to finish second in the 400 meters at the Trinidad and Tobago Senior National Championships on June 30. An Edgewater resident who won the 400 at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions, Marchan will be part of the 4x400. He has signed a National Letter of Intent with Georgetown.
Keturah Orji
Track and field, United States
The triple jumper from Mount Olive will be competing in her third Olympics. Already the first American woman to earn a spot in the triple jump final twice, Orji finished fourth at the Rio games in 2016 and seventh three years ago at the COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics. A 10-time U.S. champion, she has held the American outdoor record (48-11¼) since April 2021. She is currently ranked eighth in the world in her event.
Cheickna Traore
Track and field, Ivory Coast
Traore, 23, grew up in Jersey City, graduated from Ramapo College and now lives in Linden. A graduate student at Penn State, he qualified for the 200 meters by running 19.93 at the NCAA Regional on May 24, tying the Ivorian national record. A three-time NCAA Division III champion and seven-time All-American, Traore claimed the D-I 200 meter title (19.95) on June 8.
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Lizzie Bird
Track and field, Great Britain
Bird won the United Kingdom steeplechase title on June 29, and had already met the Olympic standard while finishing third at the European Championships (2:19.68). She finished ninth in the steeplechase in Tokyo, setting a U.K. record of 9:19.68. A 2017 Princeton graduate, Bird was a Heptagonal cross-country champion and two-time Heps champion in the steeplechase.
Simen Guttormsen
Track and field, Norway
A Princeton University alumnus who competed for Duke last season, Guttormsen won the Atlantic Coast Conference pole vault (school-record 5.65 meters) and finished third at the NCAA Championships.
Sondre Guttormsen
Track and field, Norway
A three-time NCAA pole vault champion while at Princeton, Guttormsen will represent Norway for the second time. He won the indoor European pole vault title in 2023, and is a four-time Ivy League champion in the event. He holds the California high school records in both indoor and outdoor pole vault..
Sam Mattis
Track and field, United States
Mattis, who grew up in East Brunswick, finished second in the discus at the U.S. trials on June 29. His throw of 216-9 was less than the Olympic standard, but Mattis entered the competition ranked 13th in the world to earn the spot. A NCAA discus champion at the University of Pennsylvania and two-time national champion, Mattis placed eighth at the Tokyo Olympics.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
Track and field, United States
The reigning OIympic gold medalist and 2022 world champion, McLaughlin-Levrone broke her own world record while winning the 400-meter hurdles (50.65) at the U.S. Olympic trials on June 30. The Dunellen native and former Union Catholic High School superstar was the 2016 and 2017 national Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year. She set a New Jersey record with 11 career gold medals at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions.
Rudy Winkler
Track and field, United States
Winkler will be a three-time Olympian, after finishing seventh in the hammer (252-9) in Tokyo and also competing in Rio in 2016. The American record holder (271-4), Winkler won the NCAA title as a Cornell University senior in 2017. While competing for Rutgers as a grad student, Winkler set the hammer record at the Big Ten championships and finished fourth at the NCAAs.
Allie Wilson
Track and field, United States
A Monmouth University alumna, Wilson ran a season-best 1:58.32 to finish second in the 800 meters at the U.S. trials. She had won her first national title in the 800 at the 2024 USATF indoor championships. A three-time All-American in the 800, Wilson placed fourth (Monmouth record 2:02.56) at the 2019 NCAA Championships. She will be Monmouth's third Olympian across all sports, joining Christie Pearce (soccer in the 2000-2012 Games) and Wendy Boglioli (swimming in 1976).
Curtis Thompson
Track and field, United States
A 2014 Florence grad, Thompson is heading back to the Olympics. The second American to win back-to-back Trials javelin titles, Thompson wound up 21st in Tokyo. Born in Trenton, Thompson was a four-time first team All-American javelin thrower at Mississippi State. He won the 2016 NCAA championship and the 2018 USATF title.
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