Grace Stark

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Grace Stark
Stark at Awards Ceremony in Tokyo 2025
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Born (2001-05-06) May 6, 2001 (age 25)
Home townWhite Lake, Michigan, U.S.
Height5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m hurdles: 7.72 (Nanjing, 2025)
100m hurdles: 12.21 (Paris, 2025)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Tokyo 100 m hurdles

Grace Stark (born May 6, 2001) is an American hurdler. She won the bronze medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Championships, having been fifth at the 2024 Paris Olympics and over 60 metres hurdles at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]

Early life

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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

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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]

She was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where she qualified for the semi-finals with a personal best 7.73 seconds. In the final she placed fifth in 7.74 seconds, in a race in which the top six were only separated by 0.04 seconds.[13][14][15] She began her 2025 outdoor season with a win over 100 metres hurdles at the Tom Jones Memorial in Gainesville, Florida.[16] She was runner-up in the 100m hurdles at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League event in China, in April 2025.[17] Stark secured a victory in the women’s 100m hurdles at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League, clocking a meet record time of 12.42 seconds.[18] She set a new meeting record to win the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 BAUHAUS-galan event in Stockholm, part of the 2025 Diamond League, running 12.33 seconds.[19] She set a personal best and moved to sixth on the all-times with a win over 100m hurdles in the Diamond League at the 2025 Meeting de Paris, running 12.21 seconds on 20 June 2025.[20]

On 2 August, she placed second in the final of the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.[21] She placed third in the 100 metres hurdles at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August.[22]

She was selected for the American team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, where she won the bronze medal with a time of 12.34 seconds in the final.[23][24]

Competition results

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International competitions

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Representing the File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
Year Competition Venue Position Event Result
2018 Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires, Argentina 1st 100 m hurdles (76.2cm) 26.141
2024 Olympic Games[25] Paris, France 5th 100 m hurdles 12.43
2025 World Indoor Championships Nanjing, China 5th 60 m hurdles 7.74
World Championships Tokyo, Japan 3rd 100 m hurdles 12.34

1 Cumulative time from both rounds

References

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