Malachi Austin’s TFRRS profile (for top performances and meet results)
1x USTFCCCA First Team All-American
2x USTFCCCA Second Team All-American
1x SEC Champion
1x First Team All-SEC
1x Third Team All-SEC
2026 SEC Outdoor Champion (4x400-Meter Relay)
2025-26 LSWA Men’s Freshman of the Year
SEC Men’s Runner of the Week 1x (03/24/26)
LSU All-Time Top 10 Performance List
No. 1: Outdoor 4x400-Meter Relay (2:57.96, 2026 NCAA Championships)
No. 6: Indoor 4x400-Meter Relay (3:04.60, 2026 SEC Championships)
T-No. 7: Outdoor 400 Meter (44.87, 2026 NCAA East First Round)
Collegiate All-Time Top 10 Performance List
No. 4: Outdoor 4x400-Meter Relay (2:57.96, 2026 NCAA Championships)
2026 OUTDOOR (FRESHMAN)
The talented freshman closed his spectacular season with a sixth-place finish at the World U20 Championships in the 400 meter with a time of 46.03 seconds… also competed in the 4x400-meter relay for Guyana at the World U20 Championships… earned two All-American nods at the NCAA Outdoor Championships while competing in the 400m and 4x400… helped the LSU 4x400 to a program record and No. 4 time in collegiate history of 2:57.96, finishing second at the NCAA Outdoor Championships… finished 13th at the NCAA meet with a time of 45.67 seconds in the 400m… qualified for the NCAA East First Round in the 400m and 4x400… clocked a personal-best time of 44.87 seconds in the 400m at the first-round meet, which ranks No. 7 in LSU performance-list history, No. 6 U20 time in the world for 2026, and was the South American U20 and Guyanese record… earned SEC First Team honors and gold at the SEC Outdoor Championships as he anchored LSU to a 4x400 win in 2:58.47… finished eighth in the 400m at the SEC Championships with 45.72 seconds… at the CARIFTA Games, earned gold in the 400m in 46.01 seconds and first in the mixed 4x400 with 3:20.79… took first in the 4x400 and third in the 400m at the LSU Invitational… opened the season taking first in the 400m with 45.37 seconds and second in the 4x400… finished first with the 4x400 at the Hurricane Collegiate Invitational… took second at Tom Jones Memorial with the 4x400 time of 3:02.53… clocked a 200-meter PR of 21.09 seconds at the LSU Alumni Gold… LSWA Men’s Freshman of the Year… USTFCCCA First Team All-American (4x400)… USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (400m)… SEC Champion (4x400)… First Team All-SEC.
2026 INDOOR (FRESHMAN)
Closed his first year with the Tigers taking ninth at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 4×400-meter relay with a time of 3:05.28, earning Second Team All-American honors… helped the 4×400 to a third-place finish at the SEC Indoor Championships with the No. 6 time in LSU performance-list history of 3:04.60, earning Third Team All-SEC honors… ran his indoor 400 meter PR of 47.32 seconds at the Tyson Invitational to finish 40th… took fourth at the LSU Twilight in the 500 meter with a PR of 1:06.30… clocked a 600 meter PR of 1:21.23 at the LSU Bayou Bengal… 1x USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (4×400)… 1x Third Team All-SEC (4×400).
PRIOR TO LSU – Tutorial HS
One of the most-talented young sprinters to ever come out of Guyana… holds the Guyanese national U18/U20 record in the 400 meter with 46.35 seconds, which he recorded in his U20 CARIFTA Games 2024 final to win the championship title; the time ranks seventh in Guyanese performance-list history… also helped Guyana to gold in the 4×400-meter relay and bronze in the mixed 4×400 at the 2024 U20 CARIFTA Games… the 2024 Guyanese national champion in the 400m with a time of 47.70 seconds in the final… the 2024 South American U20 Champion across the 400m with a final time of 47.21 seconds… a World Athletics U20 Championship semifinalist in the 400m… a 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist in the mixed 4×400 and silver medalist in the 400m… holds personal-best times of 10.78 seconds (100m), 21.55 seconds (200m) and 46.35 seconds (400m) prior to attending LSU.
PERSONAL
Born on February 2, 2007, in Georgetown, Guyana… son of Roxanne Dowridge Thompson.