Nilsson Becomes U20 World Champion on Final Day in Lima

LIMA, Peru – Incoming Gator freshman Vance Nilsson grew to become the U20 Champion of the lads’s 400m hurdles on Saturday, the ultimate day of the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima.
 
Nilsson’s 49.26 time was not solely his new private greatest, but additionally the perfect U20 efficiency on this planet this season. He turns into the primary U.S. athlete since 2012 to grow to be the U20 world champion of the 400m Hurdles, and units the perfect mark by an American within the occasion closing for the reason that 2008.
 
Had he run his 49.26 time within the 2024 NCAA Out of doors season, the mark would have been the tenth-best efficiency in Division I, and would have slotted in at sixth the NCAA Out of doors Championship 400m Hurdles Remaining.
 
Asia Phillips almost broke onto the rostrum within the Ladies’s Triple Leap, securing fourth place with a 13.31m efficiency. Her U20 finals mark would slot in at ninth-all-time in Florida’s program historical past, and she’s going to be part of the gators this season primed for a record-setting profession in Orange and Blue.
 
Nilsson and Phillips spherical out a set of 4 Gators with top-five finishes in Lima, becoming a member of Gracelyn Leiseth and Jaden Wiley, who made their finishes within the ladies’s Discus and males’s 200m respectively.
 
WORLD ATHLETICS U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS
DAY FIVE RESULTS
Males’s 400mH
Remaining – Vance Nilsson, USA – 49.26, World U20 Champion, Private Greatest
 
Ladies’s Triple Leap
Remaining – Asia Phillips, Canada – 13.31m, Fourth-place