Athletes
Confirmed athletes.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn is a Puerto Rican athlete specializing in the 100 meter hurdles. At the Tokyo 2020 games, held in 2021, she became the second Puerto Rican in history and the first of Afro-Latin origin to win a gold medal representing Puerto Rico at the Olympic Games. The gold medalist will be the main figure of the event.
Mustafa Yalcin / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
Ryan Crouser
Ryan Crouser is an American shot putter and discus thrower. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and Olympic record holder. He won the gold medal in the shot put at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, setting the Olympic Games record of 22.52 m (73 ft 10+1⁄2 in).[He defended that Olympic title at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, improving the Olympic record to 23.30 m (76 ft 5+1⁄4 in). All six of his throws in the competition broke his previous 2016 Olympic Record. Crouser is the current world record holder in the shot put, both indoor and outdoor.
David J. Phillip
Steven Gardiner
Steven Gardiner is a Bahamian track and field sprinter competing in the 400 meters and 200 meters. He is the current Olympic and world champion in the 400 m. and also won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in that event.
Alexandra Garcia / The New York Times
Christian Taylor
Christian Taylor is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 18.21 m (59 ft 83⁄4 in), which ranks 2nd on the all-time list. He is the current World Champion. He was the triple jump champion and long jump bronze medalist at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics. He established himself as a top-level triple jumper at the University of Florida, where he won back-to-back NCAA Indoor titles and then consecutive NCAA Outdoor Championship titles in 2010 and 2011. Taylor won his first USA Outdoor national title in 2011.
World Athletics
Andrés Arroyo
Andrés Gabriel Arroyo Dominicci is a Puerto Rican middle distance athlete who specializes in various events. He competed for Puerto Rico in the Central American and Caribbean Junior Athletics Championships in 2012 and 2014. He was also an Olympian in the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Florida Gators
Ryan Sánchez
Ryan Yaviel Sánchez Estrada is a Puerto Rican middle-distance runner specialized in the 800 meters. He won a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Games. As he was still a junior, he represented his country at the 2017 World Championships in London without advancing from the qualifiers.
Ramón 'Tonito' Zayas / El Nuevo Día
SPONSORS
