Texas Relays crowd (© University of Texas)
The Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays (1925) in Austin in Texas, USA, which is celebrating its centenary this year, has been awarded the World Athletics Heritage Plaque in the category of ‘Competition’.
The Texas Relays have attracted a pantheon of Olympic and world champions and world record-breakers during its history. In 1925, the undoubted star was Harold Osborn who had won the Olympic high jump title in Paris the previous year and set an unratified world record during the inaugural meeting. While last year, Gabrielle Thomas and Valarie Allman were among the individual event winners in the Texas Relays, and they were later crowned Paris 2024 Olympic champions.