Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs are not only the United States' best shot putters, they're two of the very best in track and field history, and over the last seven years or so have dominated the event.
On Friday, they'll compete in the first final of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials – both in search of second Olympic team berths.
At the 2016 Rio Games, Crouser won gold and Kovacs took silver. Three years later at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, widely considered to be one of the best shot put competitions in history, they swapped that order. In Doha, Kovacs, Courser and New Zealand's Tom Walsh, the defending world champion at the time, went 1-2-3, but it's how far they threw that turned heads. All heaved championship-record marks, the farthest throws since 1990, and 2015 world champion Kovacs eventually won by a centimeter.
The U.S. has won about 64% of the 28 men's Olympic shot put titles, and nearly 60% of all 84 medals ever awarded, including at least one at each of the last nine Olympics. It has swept the event seven times but not since 1960.
Crouser in May broke 23 meters (23.01m/75-6) for the first time, becoming only the third shot putter to ever accomplish the milestone mark. Earlier in the year during the indoor season, he took down Randy Barnes' indoor world record from 1989, recording 22.82m (74-10.5). Barnes' outdoor record of 23.12m still stands. Kovacs meanwhile still has the second-farthest throw in the world this season, 22.72m (74-6.5), about 7.5 inches off his personal best.
Day 1's other final, the men's 10,000m, features 2008 U.S. Olympic flag bearer Lopez Lomong, 11-time All-American Stanford alum Grant Fisher, Woody Kincaid, Ben True and more competing for an Olympic team spot.
Also: Allyson Felix in the first round of the women's 400m, Sha'Carri Richardson in the first round of the women's 100m, Donavan Brazier in the first round of the men's 800m, Vashti Cunningham in women's high jump qualifying, Elle Purrier and Jenny Simpson in the first round of the women's 5000m, Michael Norman in the first round of the men's 400m, and many more.
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