Michael Hartfield

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Michael Hartfield
Michael Hartfield jumping at the IAAF World Challenge Meeting Madrid 2017.
Personal information
Born (1990-03-29) March 29, 1990 (age 35)
Manchester, Connecticut
Sport
SportTrack and field
EventLong jump
College teamOhio State Buckeyes
Achievements and titles
Personal best8.34 m (27 ft 4+1⁄4 in)

Michael Hartfield (born March 29, 1990) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the long jump. He holds a personal best of 8.34 m (27 ft 4+1⁄4 in) for the event, set in 2016. He competed in the 2016 Olympics for Team USA in the long jump.

Collegiately, he competed for the

NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
was third in 2013.

Career

Early life

Born in Manchester, Connecticut, he attended Manchester High School and began to compete in track and field while there. After graduation from there he enrolled at Rend Lake College and competed in National Junior College Athletic Association competition, being a long jump and triple jump finalist at the JUCO Championships in 2009. The following year he won the national junior college title in the long jump and was fourth in the triple jump.[1]

College

He began study at the

NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.[1][2]

Injuries prevented him from achieving a high standard in the 2012 indoor season, but outdoors he returned to form with a Big Ten Conference long jump win in a new best of 7.96 m (26 ft 1+1⁄4 in). He was also fifth in the triple jump. He came eleventh at that year's NCAA Outdoor Championships then had his highest national placing at the

2012 United States Olympic Trials, taking sixth place. In 2013 – his third and final year of competition for the Buckeyes – he skipped indoor collegiate meets and instead competed at the 2013 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, taking second place behind Jeremy Hicks.[3] Turning outdoors, he broke Jesse Owens' 77-year-old Ohio State school record in the long jump with a personal record clearance of 8.15 m (26 ft 8+3⁄4 in) at the Texas Relays.[4] A triple jump best of 15.84 m (51 ft 11+1⁄2 in) followed in Tucson, Arizona. Hartfield became a horizontal jumps double champion at the 2013 Big Ten Conference meet, extending his conference streak in the long jump to three wins at the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.[5] In his final collegiate competition he had his first and only podium finish at the 2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, ending the long jump contest in third place.[1]

After the college season, he finished fourth at the 2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and competed in meetings in Europe for the first time later that year, which included a third-place finish at the Hanžeković Memorial.[2][6]

Professional

Hartfield did not perform well at the

2014 IAAF Diamond League at the season-ending Memorial Van Damme meet, placing fourth with a jump of 8.03 m (26 ft 4 in).[2]

He skipped the 2015 indoor season and began outdoors with the biggest win of his career at that point, clearing 8.27 m (27 ft 1+1⁄2 in) to defeat training partner

Meeting Areva, beating the reigning world champion Aleksandr Menkov.[13]

Hartfield placed fifth at the

2016 United States Olympic Trials with a wind-aided jump of 8.39 m (27 ft 6+1⁄4 in).[14] As one of the jumpers ahead of him (Will Claye) did not have the Olympic qualifying standard, Hartfield was named to the American team as an alternate; he received the opportunity to compete at the Olympics after Marquis Dendy withdrew due to an injury.[14]

Personal records

  • Long jump outdoor – 8.34 m (27 ft 4+1⁄4 in) (2016)
  • Long jump indoor – 7.98 m (26 ft 2 in) (2013)
  • Triple jump outdoor – 15.84 m (51 ft 11+1⁄2 in) (2013)
  • Triple jump indoor – 15.80 m (51 ft 10 in) (2011)
  • 100-meter dash
    – 10.59 seconds (2015)

Personal life

Hartfield is a Christian. Hartfield is married to Rachael Hartfield.[15] They have one son and one daughter together.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c Michael Hartfield. Ohio State Buckeyes. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  2. ^ a b c Mike Hartfield. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  3. ^ Men's Long Jump. USATF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  4. ^ Hartfield Breaks Jesse Owens' Long Jump Record at the Texas Relays. Ohio State Buckeyes (2013-03-30). Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  5. ^ Hartfield Wins Third-Consecutive Big Ten Long Jump Title. Ohio State Buckeyes (2013-05-11). Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  6. ^ 2013 USA Track & Field Championships - 6/19/2013 to 6/23/2013 Drake Stadium - Des Moines, Iowa Results. USATF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  7. ^ Foster, Anthony (2014-05-04). Cantwell and McCorory win with world leads in Kingston. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  8. ^ Complete Results 2014 USA Track & Field Championships - 6/25/2014 to 6/29/2014 Hornet Stadium - Sacramento, California. USATF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  9. ^ Johnson, Len (2015-05-20). Four world leads in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium". IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  10. ^ Mulkeen, Jon (2015-06-07). Yego wins dramatic javelin contest in Birmingham – IAAF Diamond League. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  11. ^ Rowbottom, Mike (2015-06-11). Muir surprises in Oslo – IAAF Diamond League. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  12. ^ Chavez, Chris (2015-06-26). Carter and Dendy shine on first day of US Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  13. ^ Brown, Matthew (2015-07-04). Adams loses her gamble, and her winning streak in Paris – IAAF Diamond League. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-07-05.
  14. ^ a b Brooks, Amanda (July 29, 2016). "Hartfield replaces Dendy in U.S. long jump for Rio". USA Track & Field. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
  15. ^ Kruse, Ethan. "Michael Hartfield - An Olympic Dream". His Huddle. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  16. ^ "flighthartfield". Instagram. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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