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Ryan Crouser
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Ryan Crouser is an American athletics competitor born in Portland on December 18, 1992. He competes in the shot put discipline for the United States. Crouser began his work period in 2009 and is educated at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a relative of Sam Crouser and speaks English.
Crouser has won the men's shot put events at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2022 and 2025 World Athletics Championships. He also participated in the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships. He represents USA Athletics in competition.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1992-12-18 ) December 18, 1992 (age 33) , Portland, Oregon , U.S.
- Height
- 6 ft 7 in (201 cm)
- Weight
- 320 lb (145 kg)
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event s
- Shot put , Discus throw
- College team
- Texas Longhorns
- Club
- Nike
- Highest world ranking
- 1st (Shot put, 2023)
- Personal best s
- SP : 23.56 m (2023), DT : 63.90 m (2014) , JT : 61.16 m (2008)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Athletics
- Team
- USA Athletics
- Position
- Shooter
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ryan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Portland
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- 2022 World Athletics Championships – men's shot put
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 145
- Image
- Ryan Crouser 2019 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 2.01
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- date of birth
- 1992-12-18
- Commons category
- Ryan Crouser
- social media followers
- 4556
- sports discipline competed in
- shot put
- start of work period
- 2009-00-00
- name in native language
- Ryan Crouser
- competition won
- 2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's shot put
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Encyclopedic overview
Ryan Crouser (born December 18, 1992) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and discus. He specializes in the shot put, in which he is the only three-time Olympic gold medalist, having won in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris, and also a three-time outdoor World Champion. He holds the world record in the shot put, both indoors and outdoors. He set the outdoor world record at 23.56 meters in May 2023, improving upon his previous record of 23.37 m from July 2021. He has held the indoor record of 22.82 m since January 2021.
In his early career, Crouser set a national high school record for the indoor shot put and outdoor discus, and he won gold in the shot put at the 2009 World Youth Championships. At the University of Texas at Austin, he won four NCAA titles in the shot put. He won the national title in the shot put at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships seven of the eight times the event was held between 2016 and 2024. He is also a four-time national champion in the indoor shot put at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, with victories in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2024.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ryan Crouser” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.