Erriyon Knighton

Biography

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. 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. Knighton holds the world under-18 best in the 200 m of 19.84 seconds, set on June 27, 2021.

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