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Abby Steiner
	Steiner at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
Personal information
Born	November 24, 1999 (age 25); Dublin, Ohio, U.S.
Height	5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	60 meters; 100 meters; 200 meters
College team	Kentucky
Club	Puma
Turned pro	2022
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m: 10.90 (Eugene 2022); 200 m: 21.77 (Eugene 2022); Indoors; 60 m: 7.10 (Birmingham 2022); 200 m: 22.09 NR (College Station 2022);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the United States
World Championships
Position(s)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Ohio Premier SC
2014–2017	Dublin Coffman Shamrocks
College career
Years	Team
2018	Kentucky Wildcats

Abby Kathryn Steiner (born November 24, 1999) is an American track and field sprinter. She is the U.S. indoor record holder in the 200 m and 300 m, and the NCAA record holder in the 200 m.^[3]^[4]^[5] Steiner holds personal bests of 10.90 seconds over 100 m and 21.77 seconds over 200 m.

Early life and development

Steiner grew up in the Columbus suburb of Dublin, Ohio, concentrating mainly on soccer, only starting to run track in the eighth grade. She starred in both sports at Dublin Coffman High School. Though sidelined for most of a year by a torn ACL, she was an all-state soccer player while setting four state high school records and winning 14 individual and 2 relay state championships in track. Steiner was a dual-sport scholarship athlete at the University of Kentucky (UK), starting her college career in 2018 as both a soccer player and track athlete.^[6]

After a freshman soccer season in 2018 in which she started all 19 games for UK, scoring two goals and recording five assists,^[7] Steiner left soccer to concentrate on track full-time. In a 2022 interview for the Lexington Herald-Leader, the daily newspaper of UK's home city of Lexington, Steiner cited this decision as a key to her track development:^[6]

Before, with soccer, I'd be training soccer in the fall, then I would come to track. I think really allowing myself to dive fully into the process of the periodization of training that we do, so fall training and then going into indoor and outdoor, it's all really important in developing speed and getting to where you want to be.

Statistics

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.^[8]

Personal records

Event	Time/Mark	Wind (m/s)	Venue	Date	Notes
60 m indoor	7.10	—	Birmingham, AL, U.S.	March 12, 2022
100 m	10.90	+1.0	Hayward Field, Eugene, OR, U.S.	June 9, 2022
200 m	21.77	-0.3	Hayward Field, Eugene, OR, U.S.	June 26, 2022
200 m NCAA	21.80	+1.3	Hayward Field, Eugene, OR, U.S.	June 11, 2022	NCAA record
200 m indoor	22.09	—	College Station, TX, U.S.	February 26, 2022	NR #2 all time
300 m indoor	35.54	—	New York, NY, U.S.	February 11, 2023	NR #3 all time
400 m indoor	50.59	—	Fayetteville, AR, U.S.	January 28, 2023

National championships

Representing the Kentucky Wildcats (2018–2022)
Year	Competition	Position	Event	Time/Mark	Wind (m/s)	Venue	Notes
2019	NCAA Division I Indoor Championships	14th	200 m	23.58	—	Birmingham, Alabama
	NCAA Division I Indoor Championships	8th	4 × 400 m relay	3:32.89	—	Birmingham, Alabama
	NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships	11th	4 × 100 m	43.53	—	Austin, Texas
		10th	200 m	23.00	(1.3)
		6th	4 × 400 m relay	3:29.13	—
2020	NCAA Division I Indoor Championships^[9]		60 m		—	Albuquerque, New Mexico
			200 m		—
			4 × 400 m relay		—
2021	NCAA Division I Indoor Championships	15th	60 m	7.38	—	Fayetteville, Arkansas
		1st	200 m	22.38	—		CR
		5th	4 × 400 m relay	3:30.28	—
2022	NCAA Division I Indoor Championships	2nd	60 m	7.10	—	Birmingham, Alabama	PB
		1st	200 m	22.16	—		CR
		3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.77	—
	NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships	3rd	100 m	11.08 (10.90 semi)	0.2 (1.0 semi)	Eugene, Oregon	PB (semi)
		1st	200 m	21.80	1.3		CR
			4 × 400 m relay	3:22:55	—		CR
	USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships		200 m	21.77	—		PB

NCAA results from Track & Field Results Reporting System.^[10]

International championships

Representing the United States
Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
2022	World Championships	Eugene, USA	5th	200 m	22.26
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	41.14	WL, 9.86 split
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:17.79	WL, 49.99 split

Other honors

In 2022, Steiner was named the recipient of the track and field version of the Honda Sports Award, presented annually to the most outstanding college athlete in each of 12 NCAA Division I women's sports.^[11] She also received the 2022 Southeastern Conference scholar-athlete of the year awards for both indoor and outdoor women's track.^[12] Steiner graduated from UK with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and exercise science (an academic program housed in the UK College of Education) in May 2022. She has been accepted to UK's physical therapy program, but is deferring her enrollment to concentrate on her professional track career.^[13]