Talitha LaNae Clark Diggs (born August 22, 2002)[1] is an American track and field sprinter specializing in the 400 meters. Diggs won the 2022 U.S. national 400 m title.
_2024.jpg) Diggs at the 2024 World Indoor Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Talitha LaNae Clark Diggs |
| Born | August 22, 2002 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) |
| Weight | 135 lb (61 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Country | United States |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | 400 meters |
Medal record | |
Career
Diggs won the 400 metres race at the 2022 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships to qualify for the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon.[2] Prior to this, she won the 2022 NCAA Outdoor championship and NCAA indoor championship representing the University of Florida. She was the second woman in NCAA history to win the USA championships, and NCAA outdoor and indoor championships in the same season. She was the fifth- fastest collegiate 400m runner in history at the time having run 49.99 to win the NCAA Outdoor Championships.[3]
On February 25 at the SEC Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Diggs broke the North American and NCAA indoor 400 m records with a time of 50.15 seconds, putting her joint eighth on the respective world all-time list. Previous NCAA record of 50.33 s was set just 90 minutes earlier by Rhasidat Adeleke.[4]
Competing at the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, in Eugene, Oregon, she finished third in the final of the 400m.[5] She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[6]
Selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, she qualified for the final of the women's 400 meters where she finished in fifth place.[7] She was part of the 4x400m relay team which won the silver medal in Glasgow.[8]
She was runner-up over 400 metres at the 2024 Diamond League Shanghai on 27 April 2024.[9]
Personal life
Her mother Joetta Clark Diggs also represented her country at athletics in major championships between 1988 and 2002, including four Olympic Games.[10] She is the niece of both Hazel Clark and two-time Olympic 4 × 400 m champion and American 800 metres record holder Jearl Miles Clark.[11]
Achievements
National and NCAA titles
- USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
- 400 meters: 2022
- NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships
- 400 meters: 2022
- NCAA Division I Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships
- 400 meters: 2022
Personal bests
- 60 meters indoor – 7.15 (Fayetteville, AR 2023)
- 100 meters – 11.27 (+1.8 m/s, Baton Rouge, LA 2022)
- 200 meters – 22.64 (+0.2 m/s, Oxford, MS 2022)
- 200 meters indoor – 22.61 (Fayetteville, AR 2023)
- 400 meters – 49.93 (Eugene, OR 2023)
- 400 meters indoor – 50.15 (Fayetteville, AR 2023) North American record, =8th all time