Malachi Austin Season 2026
Malachi Austin’s TFRRS profile (for top performances and meet results)
1x USTFCCCA Second Team All-American
1x Third Team All-SEC
LSU All-Time Top 10 Performance List
No. 6: Indoor 4×400-Meter Relay (3:04.60, 2026 SEC Championships)
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.