Steffin McCarter (born January 19, 1997) is an American

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete who competes in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. McCarter competed in the

at the

2019 World Championships in Athletics The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti ...

where he advanced to the finals. He was originally an alternate for the competition and earned his world championship berth after national champion

Will Claye Will Claye (born June 13, 1991) is an American track and field athlete of Sierra Leonean descent who competes in the long jump and triple jump. He won a bronze medal in 2011 World Championships in Athletics and the gold medals at the 2012 IAAF W ...

decided not to compete. He represented the United States at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

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* 1997 births Living people American male long jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States Texas Longhorns men's track and field athletes Track and field athletes from Texas People from Copperas Cove, Texas Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes for the United States 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-longjump-athletics-bio-stub