Heath Baldwin

Heath Baldwin (born February 8, 2001) is an American decathlete. The American champion in 2024, he competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. He was the silver medalist in the heptathlon at the 2026 World Indoor Championships.

Early life Baldwin is from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he attended Hackett Catholic Prep High School. The youngest of four siblings, he was a keen baseball player before focusing on track and field after being persuaded to try it by his strength and conditioning coach. He also played American football and basketball to all-state standard. He initially competed for the Michigan Wolverines track and field team before later transferring to Michigan State University.

Career Baldwin was runner up to Leo Neugebauer at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships heptathlon in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. In the outdoor season in 2024, Baldwin skipped the regional and national collegiate trials to focus on the Olympic trials. In June 2024, he won the decathlon at the 2024 United States Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, having also led overnight following the first day of competition. In winning the title he scored a personal best 8,625 points.

He competed in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the decathlon, finishing in tenth place overall with a score of 8,422 points. He finished third overall in the 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour.

He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he was in second place after the first day before eventually finishing fourth overall.

He finished eighth at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis on 1 June 2025 with a tally of 8,430 points. He was runner-up in the decathlon at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships behind Kyle Garland, scoring 8,407 points. He placed sixth with 8337 points at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. He placed fifth overall in the season-long World Athletics Combined Events Tour for 2025.

Baldwin joined the University of Illinois staff as an assistant coach prior to the start of the 2026 indoor season. Baldwin placed second by only ten points in the heptathlon at the 2026 USATF Combined Events Championships on 22 February, finishing behind Hakim McMorris, securing a personal best overall score which placed him ninth on the American all-time list.

Baldwin won the silver medal in the heptathlon competing for the United States at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, finishing in second place with a score of 6337 points behind a world-record setting Simon Ehammer with Kyle Garland in third.

Personal bests Outdoor

Event Performance Location Date Points Decathlon Eugene June 22, 2024 8,625 points 100 meters 10.77 (+0.7 m/s) Götzis May 31, 2025 912 points Long jump (+0.9 m/s) Ann Arbor May 11, 2024 957 points (+3.1 m/s) Walnut April 17, 2024 Shot put Eugene June 21, 2024 883 points High jump Saint-Denis August 2, 2024 963 points 400 meters 48.39 Eugene July 31, 2025 890 points 110 meters hurdles 13.71 (+0.1 m/s) Lexington May 24, 2024 1,012 points Discus throw Eugene August 1, 2025 769 points Pole vault Champaign May 2, 2025 856 points Javelin throw Walnut April 18, 2024 905 points 1500 meters 4:33.42 Tokyo September 21, 2025 722 points Virtual Best Performance 8,869 points

Indoor Event Performance Location Date Points Decathlon Boston March 9, 2024 6,238 points 60 metres 7.02 Boston March 8, 2024 875 points Long jump Albuquerque March 10, 2023 883 points Shot put Nanjing March 22, 2025 851 points High jump Geneva, Ohio February 24, 2023 944 points 60 metres hurdles 7.81 Geneva, Ohio February 24, 2024 1,030 points Pole vault Boston March 4, 2024 868 points 1000 metres 2:41.95 Nanjing March 23, 2025 852 points Virtual Best Performance 6,303 points