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KC Lightfoot

Basic Information

  • Gender: Male
  • Born: 11/11/1999
  • Status: Active

Residences

  • Hometown: Lee's Summit, MO
  • High School: Lee's Summit High School
  • College: Baylor University

Athlete Info

  • Event: Indoor Track & Field, Outdoor Track & Field
  • Coach: Brandon Richards
  • Agent: Paul Doyle
  • Sponsor: Puma

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Olympic Games

  • 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, fourth (Pole Vault) 

World Athletics Championships

  • 2019 World Championships Doha, 15th (Pole Vault)

Other Career Highlights

  • NCAA Division-I Indoor Record Holder, 6.00m (19’08.25”)
  • 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials, silver
  • 2021 NCAA Division-I Indoor Championships, gold
  • 2019 NCAA Division-I Outdoor Championships, fourth
  • 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships, bronze
  • 2019 NCAA Division-I Indoor Championships, eighth
  • 2018 USATF Junior (U20) Championships, bronze
  • 2018 USATF Indoor Championships, 10th
  • 2017 USATF Junior (U20) Championships, fourth
  • 2016 USATF National Junior Olympic Championships, bronze

Personal

KC Lightfoot is the son of Anthony and Kim Lightfoot. He also has three siblings. Lighfoot’s nine best marks in the pole vault all come from indoor meets. While attending Baylor University, he studied Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences. He recently moved back to his hometown in Missouri to train under his high school coach. When he was a teenager, he and his family built a pole vault runway and pit in their backyard. When he was in high school, he took a photograph with Sam Kendricks at a track meet as a fan; five years later, they were teammates, both pole vaulters on the U.S. Olympic team to Tokyo.

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