Arkansas
Arkansas’ Britton Wilson wins 400m hurdles national title
Wilson completed the race in 53.86 to assert victory on the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
EUGENE, Ore. — For the primary time ever, Arkansas has an outside nationwide champion within the girls’s 400 meter hurdles.
Britton Wilson raced her technique to a nationwide title Saturday in Eugene, Ore., successful the 400m hurdles with a time of 53.86 on the NCAA Championships.
Wilson got here into the occasion because the collegiate chief this season with a time of 53.75, and confirmed why she got here into the race as one of many favorites as she held a big lead down the again stretch.
The person title caps a exceptional season for the SEC outside runner of the yr.
Wilson gained the 400m hurdles and the 400m on the SEC Championships, turning into the primary girl ever to tug off that double.
Wilson was additionally certainly one of ten athletes named to the pre-NCAA Out of doors Bowerman Watch Record. The Bowerman is awarded to the nation’s greatest males’s and girls’s monitor and subject athlete.
With Wilson’s victory, the Razorbacks now have two particular person nationwide titles on the 2022 NCAA Championships. The primary got here through Ayden Owens-Delerme, who took victory within the males’s decathlon.