16-year-old Quincy Wilson splits 44.37 in 4x400 prelims, 44.69 in final after his team falls in BOTH races!!

Twan ran 3:14 with a 52 (with the fall) lead off. Can they break 3:10 in the final?

This kid is a huge talent. If he further improves, U.S will have a medal contender in the 400m

They were about 3 seconds back from the leaders at the start of the anchor leg.
Wilson had moved up to 4th place within 100m of his leg. Halfway through, Wilson was in 2nd place. He caught the leader (Archbishop Carroll) at the end of the final curve.

I was in the stadium. My goodness it was one of the most amazing things i have seen. I was talking smack to the Jamaicans before the race and when the kid fell, the stadium was in disbelief and then they just kept fighting back and Quincy got that baton and it was electric. I hope he has enough for the championship.

This kid better be in Olympic 4x400 relay pool.

Ran all of the first turn in lane 2/3 to pass people

If I’m looking at this right; it looks like he split 44.69 in the final. Unbelievable for a kid to post two 44 splits in a day

And his team let him down.

Looks like the first 2 legs were right in it, but 3rd man split 51?

they fell AGAIN

Very chaotic at 2nd pass and another runner went down on front of them.

To be fair to Bullis, it was an extremely chaotic situation. Five teams handing off at the same time and as soon as their third leg got the baton, the incoming runner from Excelsior fell right in front of them. Very little they could do, just some bad luck.

A 16-year-old splitting 44.xx twice in one day is ridiculous. What a runner Quincy Wilson is.

Yeah but... the Jamaican teams seem to know how to get the stick around and now have won the 4X4 for the gazillionth year in a row. Bullis on paper was probably the favorite and twice found a way to phuc up. I recommend that the top U.S. teams spend some time in Jamaica against kids who are hungry and not entitled. Get knocked around and learn to man up. A nation of around 2 million kicks the U.S.'s ass year after year at PR.

Do they always start that many 4x400 teams in one heat? That was insane. I know it is only highschool and maybe time constrained to keep the meet going, but it seems there almost has to be some sort of disaster in the first 2 legs with that many starting.

You have it backwards. It was a Jamaican runner who fell right in front of Bullis. So it's the Jamaicans who need to learn how to stay on their feet.

There is one team per lane. So 8 teams or 9 teams in a 4x400 is normal.

i realize we allow some degree of bumping in track but between that and some other longer relay footage i saw, it looked a tad roller derby.

I know a relay split isn't the same as the open 400m, but .. as a fan, I hope he can keep his season going to the US Trials .. and Paris?

If he can split 44.xx in one day, can't we bring him for the relay pool for either the men's or mixed 4x400?

Boling was in the relay pool for last year's WC and has a 45.17 PB. Quincy ran 45.19 in his first outdoor race this season.

I hope he stays healthy - and can carry this form to June and July

The kid (as great as he is) is a HS Soph!! What is your hurry? Seems to me that it is kind of pathetic that in the US (the land of the 400m historically) there is talk of a HS runner making a relay (4x1 or 4x4) team, especially the Olympics. Is the College coaching that bad that at least a dozen kids are not faster than him?!