Erriyon Knighton
Knighton at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | January 29, 2004 Jesup, Georgia, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 meters, 200 meters | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | My Brother's Keeper Track Club | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jonathan Terry and Mike Holloway | |||||||||||||||||
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Erriyon Knighton (born January 29, 2004) is an American sprinter specializing in the 100 meters and 200 meters. At the age of 18, he won the bronze medal in the 200 m at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, becoming the youngest ever individual sprint medalist in Championships history. He was also the silver medalist at the 2023 200m final at the World Championships.
Knighton holds the world under-18 best in the 200 m of 19.84 seconds, set on June 27, 2021, and world U20 record with a time of 19.69 seconds, set on June 26, 2022. His best mark of 19.49 s (not ratified as U20 record) makes him the sixth-fastest athlete in history over the distance, only surpassed by Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Noah Lyles, Michael Johnson and Letsile Tebogo. It was also the fastest season opener ever.
In 2022, Knighton became the first athlete in history to win a second World Athletics Male Rising Star of the Year award.
On 12 September 2025, Knighton received a four-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation in 2024, when appeals by World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency of an earlier ruling were upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.