Hayward Field

The U.S. Olympic Committee announced Thursday that Eugene has been chosen to host the 2024 U.S. Olympic team trials for track and field.

This weekend, Eugene’s Hayward Field hosts the last meet of the track and field season.

The World Athletics Council has chosen Eugene to host its youth track-and-field championships at Hayward Field in 2026.

Eugene’s annual Prefontaine Classic track and field meet is happening in September this year, rather than earlier in the summer, as usual.

KLCC’s Love Cross chatted with Paul Swangard a day after the events wrapped up, to talk about the experience of the re-imagined Hayward field being home to the first World Athletics Championships on U.S. soil.

The men’s and women’s 200-meter races were the only medal events on Thursday, and if it weren’t for Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith mixing it up in the women’s race, all four sprints would have been sweeps for a single country.

Several events at the World Championships track and field meet Tuesday evening in Eugene didn’t play out according to expectations.

The World Championships track and field meet in Eugene put women in the spotlight on Monday.

Team USA won nine medals on Sunday, the most top-three finishes earned in a single day by a single nation in World Championships history.

As Hayward Field announcers like to say, this weekend is the penultimate event before the World Championships track and field meet in Eugene.

Expect to see visitors sporting the colors and logos of dozens of colleges this week in Eugene. The Division 1 NCAA Track and Field Championships start Wednesday at Hayward Field.

With thousands of athletes and spectators converging on Eugene next month for the world track championships, public safety officials are planning for one of the largest security events that Oregon has ever seen.