US EditionCooper Lutkenhaus Becomes World's Youngest World Indoor Track Champion Ever
Seventeen-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus won the 800m in 1:44.24, capping an undefeated indoor season and setting a U20 indoor world record earlier this year.
- Cooper Lutkenhaus, a 17-year-old high school junior, won the men's 800 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland on Sunday, finishing in 1:44.24 to become the youngest world indoor champion ever.
- Arriving in Sunday with a 1:44.03 indoor PB and a U.S. national title, Lutkenhaus surged to win in 1:44.24 after a breakthrough 2025 season with a 1:42.27.
- Surging at 500 meters, Lutkenhaus held a very slight lead entering the final lap and used a blistering 200-meter kick to fend off Crestan and Attaoui.
- Track & Field News notes his time made him the sixth-fastest man indoors in world history, capping an undefeated indoor season as the third consecutive American winner in the 800.
- Although a first-year pro, Lutkenhaus continues to train with the Northwest track and field team, with both parents working for the district and his mother named principal earlier this month, energizing the Justin community.
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Cooper Lutkenhaus will graduate next year at Northwest High School (in Justin, Texas), but at the age of 17 he has already made history in the indoor World Championships. The American rose to the youngest champion in the history of these championships by strikingly winning the 800-meter final, in which Mo Attoui was bronze.
The American won the 800 meters in Torun and became the youngest medalist in history, his brand, his early irruption and the future that already impacts international athletics.
The US athlete Cooper Lutkenhaus was over 800 metres too fast for the competition at the World Athletics Championships in Poland. The German team remained completely without a medal.
A 17-year-old named himself World Athletics Champion. The American Cooper Lutkenhaus runs away from the competition over 800 meters. The German team is counting on the summer.
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