The 29-year-old sprinter from Claremont is bound for Paris after running personal best of 21.90 to finish second in the 200-meter final at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Brittany Brown signs a miniature Eiffel Tower after finishing second to qualify for the Olympics in the women’s 200-meter final during the U.S. Track and Field Trials at Hayward Field on June 29, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon. EUGENE, OREGON – JUNE 29: Bronze medalist McKenzie Long, silver medalist Brittany Brown and gold medalist Gabby Thomas pose with their medals after competing the women’s 200 meter final on Day Nine of the 2024 U.S.
Brittany Brown signs a miniature Eiffel Tower after finishing second to qualify for the Olympics in the women’s 200-meter final during the U.S. Track and Field Trials at Hayward Field on June 29, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon. U.S. Olympic sprinter Brittany Brown was introduced to track and field when she was 9 years old and a participant in the school-wide meet at Vista del Valle Elementary in Claremont.
Finishing in front of everyone but Gabby Thomas, the two-time Olympic medalist who edged Brown by .09. Ahead of Mckenzie Long, a compelling collegiate champion who took the third and final spot on the U.S. team in the event. Ahead of superstar Sha’carri Richardson, who was fourth., it took the broadcasters 80 more seconds to mention Brown’s name: “Brittany Brown is going to experience her first Olympic games.
Inspired by Brandi, who’d earned a scholarship to play basketball at Youngstown State, Brittany thought her sport might pay for college too. But she wasn’t on schools’ radars until her senior year at Claremont High School, when she started training with Jon Gilmer, a private coach based then in Rancho Cucamonga.
She ventured out, unattached in 2019, without a shoe sponsorship. Spent her days training, bussing tables, working as a caregiver for patients with dementia and Alzheimers. Counting pennies so closely that on her first flight abroad, bound for a race in Switzerland, she had to ask the man in the seat next to her whether the in-flight meal was free before she could accept it.
Especially considering how many times she described her symptoms to doctors: pain, dizziness, fatigue. None of them thought to investigate further, she said; they just prescribed birth control, although one went so far as to suggest a hysterectomy.
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