Eugene’s iconic stadium will host the event for the fifth year in a row
Hayward Field will host the 2025 USATF Outdoor Championships (July 31-August 3, 2025).
The four-day meet will crown every U.S. champion in 22 disciplines and also serve as a qualifying event for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo (Sept. 13-21).
Since the USATF Outdoor Championships combined genders in 1976, Hayward Field has hosted it 14 times, the first being in 1986.
Over the decades, the USATF Outdoor Championships have moved from Indiana and Iowa to California and Louisiana, but now it will likely remain in Oregon for the foreseeable future.
Since Hayward Field was renovated for the 2022 World Series, many championship records have fallen.
Hayward Field (Getty)
This year’s edition, which doubled as a trial run for the Paris Olympics, saw an incredible 10 athletes place themselves on the honor roll.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levron led the way with a world record 400m hurdles time of 50.65 before she bettered that again in Paris in 50.37 to retain her Olympic crown.
Elsewhere in Oregon, Noah Lyles raced to 19.53 (0.5) in the 200m, Bryce Hoppel clocked 1:42.77 in the 800m and Cole Hawker clocked 3:30.59 in the 1500m before winning the French capital. :
Grant Holloway and Masai Russell were two other sprinters who followed their championship records of 12.92 (0.8) in the 110m hurdles and 12.25 (0.7) over 100m hurdles with Olympic gold medals in Eugene.
Grant Holloway (Getty)
Nikki Hiltz’s 3:55.33 in the 1500m, Valerie Constien’s 9:03.22 in the 3000m steeplechase and El St. Pierre’s 14:40.34 in the 5000m were also the fastest times ever recorded at the USATF Outdo Championships.
Valarie Allman was the only field athlete to set a championship record of 70.89m in the discus. It was therefore no surprise that Allman retained his Olympic title in Paris.
Meanwhile, the 2025 USATF Indoor Championships will be held at the Ocean Breeze Sports Complex in Staten Island, New York (February 21-23).
This will be the first time since 2019 that a stadium on Staten Island will host the championship.
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