Noah Lyles Continues To Soar With Another 200-Meter Win In Lausanne
...
Read moreRead less
Height
5'7"
Age
33
Hometown
Chicago, IL
Education
Michigan State University ‘15, Interdisciplinary Studies
Quick Facts
- Speciality: Triple Jump
- Daughter of Jermain and Tonya Franklin
- First American woman to ever win a medal in triple jump at the World Athletics Championships
- Loves to travel
- Co-founded Live Happii Project, focused on organizing international trips for inner city youth to learn about different cultures
Recipient of the 2025 Team USA Community Champions in partnership with Comcast award
Biographical Information
Tori Franklin grew up in Downers Grove, Illinois, outside of Chicago, excelling in basketball and track and field in high school. She attended Michigan State University for Track and Field, where she competed in the triple jump, long jump, high jump and 400-meter throughout her four-year college career.
Franklin is a four-time national champion in the triple jump and made her Olympic debut at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 where she did not advance to the 12-person final. A year later, at the World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Franklin, she became the first American woman to ever win a medal in triple jump.
Off the track, Franklin is very open about her struggles with mental health throughout her career. Franklin has lived abroad for long stretches for her training and she opened a non-profit, the Live Happii Project, in her hometown of Chicago that focuses on taking inner-city youth on international trips to learn about different cultures.
Olympic Experience
- 2-time Olympian
- Olympic Games Paris 2024, 14th (Triple Jump - Women)
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 25th (Triple Jump - Women)
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2023 – 12th (Triple Jump - Women)
- Years of participation: Triple Jump - Women 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2022, 2023
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze – 2022 (Triple Jump - Women)
The U.S. Closes Out On-Track Events of Paris 2024 With Three Golds, Two From Relays
SAINT-DENIS, France — Team USA delivered a grand finale on Saturday in the last night of Athletics action at Stade de France. The men’s and women’s 4x400-meter relays put an exclamation point at the end of an already stellar few days of athletics for t...
Team USA Takes Home A Pair Of Medals In The High Jump And The Men’s 5,000-Meter
SAINT-DENIS, France — In the penultimate night of athletics, Team USA was coming in with 29 medals, just three shy of the total medals they won in track and field in Rio. But after the lights went out at the Stade de France stadium just outside Paris, ...
A Tale of Two Relays: The U.S. Women's 4x100-Meter Relay Team Take Gold, While the Men Have Baton Troubles
As Gabby Thomas placed the baton in the hand of Sha’Carri Richardson for the final 100 meters of the Women’s 4x100m Relay, the United States was in fourth place by 0.18 seconds. To the roaring crowd at Stade de France, the race appeared to be a jumbled...
Cool, Calm And A Tad Clumsy, Rai Benjamin Dethrones Norwegian King To Become 400-Meter Hurdles Champion
It was far from the perfect race, but Rai Benjamin charged hard and overtook defending Olympic champion Karsten Warholm to win 400-meter hurdles Olympic gold.Benjamin grabbed the lead from the Norwegian world record holder, while hammering around the f...
Grant Holloway, Daniel Roberts Go 1-2 in 110m Hurdles; Kenny Bednarek, Noah Lyles Finish 2-3 in 200m, Upholding U.S. Dominance at Paris Games
SAINT-DENIS, France – Grant Holloway confirmed his status as the undisputed king of the men’s 110-meter hurdles, adding an Olympic gold medal alongside a silver and three consecutive world titles. Holloway exploded out of the blocks, immediately taking...
