Orlando will host the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials on Feb. 3, 2024.
The top three men and women at trials are expected to make up the team for the Paris Games.
Early favorites include Emily Sisson and Keira D’Amato, who this year became the two fastest U.S. female marathon runners in history, and Galen Rupp, Conner Mantz and Scott Fauble.
Orlando, the first Florida host in marathon trials history, was chosen while Chattanooga, Tennessee, was also reportedly in the running.
Atlanta held the last Olympic marathon trials on Feb. 29, 2020, less than a month before the Tokyo Games were postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Orlando will be the farthest south host in Olympic marathon trials history, displacing Houston, which hosted in 1992 and 2012.
The site for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials has not been announced.
U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials hosts
1908: Boston, St. Louis
1912: Boston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, New York (modified to about 12 miles)
1920: Boston, Brooklyn, Detroit, New York
1924: Boston
1928: Boston, Chesapeake Bay, New York to Long Beach AAU Championship race
1932: Boston, Baltimore
1936: Boston, AAU Championship in Washington
1940: Boston, Yonkers (N.Y.)
1948: Boston, Yonkers
1952: Boston, Yonkers
1956: Boston, Yonkers
1960: Boston, Yonkers
1964: Culver City (Calif.), Yonkers
1968: Alamosa (Colo.)
1972: Eugene (Ore.)
1976: Eugene
1980: Niagara Falls (N.Y.)
1984: Buffalo (N.Y.), Olympia (Wash.)
1988: Jersey City (N.J.), Pittsburgh
1992: Columbus (Ohio), Houston
1996: Charlotte, Columbia (S.C.)
2000: Pittsburgh, Columbia
2004: Birmingham, St. Louis
2008: New York, Boston
2012: Houston
2016: Los Angeles
2020: Atlanta
2024: Orlando
A women’s marathon debuted at the Olympics in 1984. Separate host cities were used for men’s and women’s trials from 1984 through 2008.
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