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Kyle Garland

Kyle Garland (born May 28, 2000) is an American decathlete. He won the bronze medal at the 2025 World Championships and is the third-highest scoring decathlete in American history behind Ashton Eaton and Dan O'Brien.

Garland was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his prep career at private Germantown Academy before enrolling as a student at the University of Georgia. As a senior at Germantown, Garland won the 2018 PAISAA state championships in the long jump, javelin, 300 meter hurdles, and 110 meter hurdles.

As an unattached junior athlete, Garland won gold at the 2018 USATF U20 Championships in the decathlon scoring 7562 points. He then went on to finish 7th at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships.

At the USA World Championship Trials in June 2022, Garland finished second in the decathlon with a collegiate record and personal best score of 8720. This score included six personal bests, and placed him in the top 10 for all US decathletes, the top 20 for all decathletes.

Garland was selected to compete at the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon. Garland placed in the top 10 after the shot put, long jump and 100 meters events before ultimately finishing eleventh on his senior major championship debut, which was won by world-record holder Kevin Mayer of France. He was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.

He finished second at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis on 1 June 2025 with a tally of 8626 points. He won the decathlon at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, becoming the third-best performer in U.S. history with 8869 points, behind only Dan O'Brien and Ashton Eaton.

On September 21, 2025, he won the decathlon bronze medal with 8703 points at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. He finished runner-up to Sander Skotheim in the season-long World Athletics Combined Events Tour for 2025.

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Outdoor

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