Allyson Felix on Sunday looks to secure her fifth Olympic berth, competing in the women's 400m final, an event in which she's the world champion from 2015, world bronze medalist from 2017 and Olympic silver medalist from the most recent Games in 2016. She's the most decorated American woman in Olympic track and field history with nine medals – six gold and three silver.
The 35-year-old mother ran the fourth-fastest 400m of the first-round heats Friday in 50.99, and followed that up with a 51.01 in Saturday's semifinals, No. 6 among the field that round. She enters Sunday's final (10:06 p.m. ET) as the ninth-fastest American woman at 400m this season, however only five of the eight ahead of her on that list are also in the final – Quanera Hayes, Wadeline Jonathas, Lynna Irby, Kendall Ellis and Kaylin Whitney.
According to NBC Sports' Nick Zaccardi, Felix is the only one among the 16 finalists in both the men's and women's 400m who has competed in an Olympics.
Felix is also entered to compete next week in the 200m, an event in which she's a four-time world medalist, three-time Olympic medalist and No. 6 all-time, but the 400m looks to her best shot at making the U.S. Olympic team in an individual event.
Zaccardi noted Saturday after Felix's successful semifinal round that by making the final she may have earned her spot in the relay pool, thus earning the berth regardless of Sunday's result.
Although Felix would, presumably, almost certainly prefer to represent Team USA in an individual event, five of her historic nine Olympic medals to this point have come in the relays, all of them gold.
Keni Harrison seeks redemption in the 100m hurdles from her disappointing sixth-place finish at the 2016 Trials, two weeks after which she took down the event's 28-year-old world record at a meet in London. Her record still stands. She then watched as her fellow Americans swept the podium in Rio, and was runner-up at the 2019 World Championships to Nia Ali, who is notably absent from this cycle's Trials after reportedly giving birth to a new child.
The 28-year-old from Clayton, North Carolina, had the world’s top time in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and sixth-fastest in both 2019 and thus far in 2021. Her 12.49 in Saturday's first-round heats was the fastest among the field. She'll race in the semifinals Sunday at 9:03 p.m. ET, hoping to advance to the final less than two hours later at 10:43 p.m. ET and finish top-three to secure her first Olympic berth.
Reigning Olympic champion Brianna McNeal, who was granted eligibility to compete while appealing a four-year ban handed down in June, was the second-fastest after Harrison out of the first round.
Trayvon Bromell has put together an incredible comeback in 2021 after multiple injuries and setbacks since making his first Olympic team in 2016. After winning the world indoor 60m title earlier in the year, the St. Petersburg, Florida, native finished eighth in the 100m at the Rio Games and anchored the bronze-medal winning 4x100m relay team that was ultimately disqualified for an exchange zone violation.
The 25-year-old native faces stiff competition in an extremely talented field of American men's 100m sprinters. In Saturday's first-round heats, six went sub-10, and all but one of the 16 to advance ran 10.13 or faster.
Bromell's first-round time Saturday was 9.84, the fastest among the field and a top-75 all-time mark – but still nearly a tenth of a second off his 9.77 personal best from earlier this month. He'll race in the semifinals Sunday at 9:19 p.m. ET, hoping to advance through to the final at 10:52 p.m. – which caps Day 3 competition – and place in the top three.
Ronnie Baker, Fred Kerley and 2004 Olympic champion Justin Gatlin were the next fastest qualifiers out of the first round after Bromell. Noah Lyles was No. 6.
Others to look out for in a final-packed Sunday:
- Vashti Cunningham, 2019 world bronze medalist, in the women's high jump final; she's No. 1 in the world so far this season at 2.02m, a personal best she set last month
- Michael Norman, Michael Cherry, collegian Randolph Ross and others battle it out in a toss-up men's 400m final that should be very fast and extremely close
- Keturah Orji, American record-holder, in the women's triple jump final; she had the farthest mark in Friday's qualifying by a quarter-meter (nearly 10 inches) with 14.29m
- Rudy Winkler in the men's hammer final, who's personal best from April (81.98m) is only about a half-meter away from Lance Deal's nearly 25-year-old American record mark (82.52m)
- Day two of the decathlon, which concludes with the 1500m at 10:23 p.m. ET
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