Rai Benjamin
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1997 (27 years old)
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Mount Vernon, New York, USAPosition
Hurdler
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1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
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77 kg (170 lb)
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 |  |  |  | Mens 400 metres Hurdles Final at Herculis | 12 Jul 24 | |
 |  | |  | Mens 200 metres Final at USATF Golden Games | 16 Apr 22 | |
 |  | |  | Mens 400 metres Hurdles Final | 03 Aug 21 | |
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Rai Benjamin (born July 27, 1997) is an American hurdler and sprinter specializing in the 400 m and 400 m hurdles. He is the second fastest man in history in the 400 m hurdles with a personal best time of 46.17 s. He won a silver medal at his first Olympic Games in 2021 and won the 400 m hurdles race at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Benjamin also won silver medals and at the World Championships in 2019 and 2022 in the men's 400 m hurdles, and gold medals in the 4 × 400 m relay in 2019 and 2021.
In college, Benjamin ran for the UCLA Bruins and then the USC Trojans, where in early 2018 he was part of the team that set the world best time in the indoor 4 × 400 m relay with a time of 3:00.77. At the time, his relay split time of 44.35 s was the fastest ever recorded in an indoor race. In June of the same year he also helped set the NCAA record in the same event but outdoors, and ran what was at the time the second fastest 400 m hurdles race of all time in 47.02 s.
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