Upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials will define Team USA for Paris 2024
The best artistic gymnasts, track-and-field athletes, swimmers, divers, and wrestlers will go head-to-head in their respective sports in the coming months, where only the best will emerge to represent the United States in France.
The Olympic year has officially kicked off, which means the U.S. Olympic trials are right around the corner.
The Paris 2024 Games are poised to see record-breaking, heart-pounding performances, but it’s only the best of the best that will make it through trials to land on the Olympic stage.
Here are some of the upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials that will define Team USA for the upcoming Olympic Summer Games.
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2024 U.S. Olympic Trials: Marathon
The U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials are first to kick off a big year for American Olympic hopefuls.
At 10:00am local time on 3 February, the fastest marathon runners in the U.S. will put everything on the line in Orlando, Florida.
Conner Mantz, the men’s favorite, has dominated since making the transition from middle-distance track events to the marathon in 2022. He put down the fastest American marathon time in the past two years, and will go into trials with a 2023 time of 2:07:47. Two-time Olympic medalist Galen Rupp is also set to run in Orlando and comes in with the third fastest time of last year (2:08:48). Clayton Young, Mantz’s training partner, comes in second with a 2:08:00.
For the women, this year holds the fastest Olympic Trials field ever in a hotly-contested field.
Kenya-born Betsy Saina will step up to the line in Orlando as the fastest female marathon runner of 2023, with the year’s fastest time of 2:21:40, while US record holder Emily Sisson trails less than a second behind, having run a 2:22:09 in Chicago. Emma Bates goes in as number three just 0.1 seconds behind Bates.
A maximum of three men and three women who have achieved the Olympic qualifying times will be selected by the NOC for the XXXIII Olympiad.
- As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.
- Click here to see the official qualification system for each sport.
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2024 U.S. Olympic Trials: Wrestling
With 181 athletes qualified for the U.S. Wrestling Olympic Team Trials as of 16 January, the list is not final, but it is sure to be an ultra-competitive year.
From 19-20 April at Pennsylvania State University, everything is on the line for the American wrestlers looking to qualify for Paris.
At the last Summer Games in Tokyo, the U.S. took nine medals including three golds. Of the nine athletes who landed on the podium in Japan, eight will be returning to trials in an attempt to keep their places on the U.S. Olympic Team.
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials: Swimming
Team USA’s swimming Olympic trials will take place from 15-23 June in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The meet will take place on a converted football field in front of hundreds of thousands of fans, families and friends across the 10 days of competition.
Seven-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky will be aiming to qualify for a fourth Olympic Games, having won gold at London 2012 aged just 15. While others such as oldest qualifier, 46-year-old, two-time Olympian Gabrielle Rose will be hoping to make headlines of their own.
Katie Ledecky of Team United States competes in the Women's 800m Freestyle Final at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on July 31, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials: Diving
Taking place at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 16-23 June, hopeful Team USA divers will step up to the board attempting to clinch a place in the United States squad, and with it, a chance to make a splash in Paris.
At the last summer Games in Tokyo, Team USA took two silvers - one in the men’s synchronized 3m springboard and another in the women’s synchronized 10m platform – as well as one bronze medal by Krysta Palmer in the 3m springboard.
Palmer, as well as four of five 2020 medalists, have said they will be returning to trials and looking to take another Olympic spot and add to the U.S.’ medal count in Paris.
The up-and-coming Americans have a lot to prove in Knoxville if they want to overtake the Olympic vets.
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials: Track and field
Track and field’s 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials are returning to Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon for the eighth time, and this year, the week is poised to be nothing short of spectacular.
A culmination of seasoned professionals and fiery newcomers will go head-to-head for the chance to wear the iconic stars and stripes on their uniform at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Big names expected to dominate in Oregon include six-time world champion and Olympic bronze medalist Noah Lyles, as well as two-time world champion Sha’Carri Richardson plus two-time Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin.
The trials are also serving as the national championships and with just under a month between the wrap up of this meet and the kick off in Paris, expect to see athletes in tip-top form.
Noah Lyles of Team United States celebrates winning gold in the Men's 200m Final on day seven of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 21, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon.
2024 U.S. Olympic Trials: Artistic Gymnastics
Brace yourself for what could be the most exciting U.S. Olympic Trials all year - artistic gymnastics’ 2024 showdown in Minneapolis. With just five men and five women that will make the cut to represent the United States in Paris this summer, the western Minnesota city will see the best of the best in peak form.
The last three female Olympic all-around champions, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee, all have their names in the ring ahead of Paris 2024, and if all three make the team, it will be the first time an Olympic gymnastics team features three all-around Olympic champions.
The younger generation will have to put on a show of a lifetime from 27-30 June to stay on par with three of the best gymnasts of all time and land on Team USA’s showcase Olympic team in 2024.
