{"id":294127,"date":"2023-05-07T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=294127"},"modified":"2023-05-07T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T17:57:45","slug":"freshman-track-star-quincy-wilson-nearly-breaks-meet-record-of-sub-45-seconds-in-4x400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=294127","title":{"rendered":"Freshman track star Quincy Wilson nearly breaks meet record of sub-45 seconds in 4&#215;400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quincy Wilson rose to prominence on the running scene as a 12-year-old due to his <a href=\"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/sections\/runs-races\/12-year-old-runs-51-second-400m-at-adidas-track-indoor-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adidas Track Indoor Nationals performance<\/a>. Now a freshman, Wilson has only gotten better with age \u2014 and it&#8217;s still a remarkably young age for the feats he has been producing.<\/p>\n<p>At the Penn Relays on April 27, Wilson ran his split of the 4&#215;400 preliminaries at 45.06, anchoring the Bullis School (Potomac, Md.) boys team to the fastest time of the day at 3:14.12 and helping them advance to the finals. MileSplit estimated that Wilson made up 10-15 meters in his run as the anchor.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, still just 15 years old, put up one of the fast times in meet history, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesplit.com\/articles\/332883\/quincy-wilson-4506-anchor-a-penn-relays-day-1-highlight\">MileSplit<\/a>. The meet record for a split is 44.8 seconds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4&#x20e3;5&#x20e3;.0&#x20e3;6&#x20e3;<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Quincy Wilson with an unreal split in the 4x400m for Bullis School<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f4fa.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcfa\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hrAycG1lk3\">https:\/\/t.co\/hrAycG1lk3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3EdqDYFxbj\">pic.twitter.com\/3EdqDYFxbj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FloTrack (@FloTrack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FloTrack\/status\/1651675924314873858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wilson has had a stellar year, setting freshman records in multiple events. His indoor 400-meter time of 47.30 in February set a national freshman record \u2014 and it only lasted a month because he broke it again with a time of 46.67 in his New Balance indoor nationals victory in March. The previous record was 47.97, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/eprofile.php?event_id=1164&amp;do=news&amp;news_id=657447\">RunnerSpace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RunnerSpace also wrote that Wilson set indoor class records in the 300m (34.11), 500m (1:02.63) and 600m (1:17.80).<\/p>\n<p>Blossoming into an elite high school runner regardless of age, Wilson still has three more years to make his mark at this level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Quincy Wilson, still 15 years old, nearly broke the 45-second mark in his split of the 4&#215;400 at The Penn Relays in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294129,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294127\/revisions\/294129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}