Matthew Boling
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Matthew Boling is an American track and field athlete specializing in the sprints and long jump. He won four gold medals at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships in the 100 m, 200 m, 4 × 100 m relay
Boling competed in the mixed 4 × 400 m relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships
Boling stands before entering the starting blocks.
Boling (center) sprinting
The Gatorade Player of the Year awards are given annually to up and coming high school student-athletes in the United States. They are given for boys' baseball, boys' and girls' basketball, boys' and
Matthew Boling
…2nd legs for the USA's 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m teams, respectively, both setting World U20 records. For his performances, Gatorade awarded Boling its National Boys Track & Field Player of the Year honors for 2018–19, and he was named the 2019 High School Boys Athlete Of The Year by Track & Field News. Before his first season at Georgia was cut…
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