Caleb Dean

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Caleb Dean
Dean at the 2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Born (2001-06-20) June 20, 2001 (age 24)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m hurdles: 47.23 (Eugene, 2024)

Caleb Dean (born June 20, 2001) is an American track and field athlete who competes as a hurdler. In 2024, he won the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 400-meter hurdles at the Outdoor Championships.[1]

Early life

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Dean is from Hyattsville, Maryland, where he attended DeMatha Catholic High School.

Collegiate career

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Dean started his collegiate career at the University of Maryland. He was a two-time Big Ten Champion as well as a two-time Big Ten runner-up. After his junior year, he transferred to Texas Tech University. In his two years as a Red Raider, he accumulated four Big 12 championships and three Big 12 runner-up finishes.[2][3]

Dean won the 60 meter hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. Texas Tech won the team title that same year.[4]

Dean qualified fastest for the final of the 400m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon on 5 June 2024.[5] He ran 47.23 seconds to win the title on 7 June 2024 ahead of defending champion Chris Robinson. Only Rai Benjamin had run faster in collegiate history.[6] Dean was also the first Division I male to win nationals in the 60m hurdles and 400m hurdles in the same season. At the end of the 2024 season, he was named national track athlete of the year by the USTFCCCA, and a finalist for the Bowerman Award.[7][8]

Professional career

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In July 2024, Dean signed a professional contract with Adidas.[7]

In December 2024, he signed with Grand Slam Track to compete in all four slams of the inaugural season in 2025.[9] In the first slam, held in Kingston, Jamaica, he finished third over 400m hurdles, running 48.58 seconds in April 2025.[10] At the second 2025 Grand Slam Track event in Miami, he finished fifth in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 49.90 seconds on 2 May 2025, and then third in the 400 meter flat race in 45.18 seconds.[11][12]

He ran 48.45 seconds to finish as runner-up to Rai Benjamin in the final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene.[13] Selected for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, he was a finalist in the men's 400 metres hurdles, placing seventh overall.[14]

Statistics

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Circuit performances

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Grand Slam Track results[15]

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Championship results

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All results taken from World Athletics profile.[1]

Year Meet Venue Event Place Time
2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships Hayward Field 400m hurdles SF3 4th 50.45
US Olympic trials SF1 5th 49.78
2022 NCAA Outdoor Championships SF2 DQ NA
2023 NCAA Indoor Championships Albuquerque Convention Center 60m hurdles 2nd 7.59
NCAA Outdoor Championships Mike A. Myers Stadium 110m hurdles SF1 3rd 13.56
400m hurdles 4th 48.56
2024 NCAA Indoor Championships The TRACK at New Balance 60m 6th 6.67
60m hurdles 1st 7.56
4x400m 4th 3:03.37
NCAA Outdoor Championships Hayward Field 400m hurdles 1st 47.23
US Olympic trials 400m hurdles Final DNF

References

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