Heath Baldwin (born February 8, 2001) is an American decathlete. The American champion in 2024, he competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. He was the silver medalist in the heptathlon at the 2026 World Indoor Championships.
Baldwin is from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he attended Hackett Catholic Prep High School. The youngest of four siblings, he was a keen baseball player before focusing on track and field after being persuaded to try it by his strength and conditioning coach. He also played American football and basketball to all-state standard. He initially competed for the Michigan Wolverines track and field team before later transferring to Michigan State University.
Baldwin was runner up to Leo Neugebauer at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships heptathlon in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. In the outdoor season in 2024, Baldwin skipped the regional and national collegiate trials to focus on the Olympic trials. In June 2024, he won the decathlon at the 2024 United States Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, having also led overnight following the first day of competition. In winning the title he scored a personal best 8,625 points.
He competed in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the decathlon, finishing in tenth place overall with a score of 8,422 points. He finished third overall in the 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour.
He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he was in second place after the first day before eventually finishing fourth overall.
He finished eighth at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis on 1 June 2025 with a tally of 8,430 points. He was runner-up in the decathlon at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships behind Kyle Garland, scoring 8,407 points. He placed sixth with 8337 points at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. He placed fifth overall in the season-long World Athletics Combined Events Tour for 2025.
Baldwin joined the University of Illinois staff as an assistant coach prior to the start of the 2026 indoor season. Baldwin placed second by only ten points in the heptathlon at the 2026 USATF Combined Events Championships on 22 February, finishing behind Hakim McMorris, securing a personal best overall score which placed him ninth on the American all-time list.
Baldwin won the silver medal in the heptathlon competing for the United States at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruà Â, Poland, finishing in second place with a score of 6337 points behind a world-record setting Simon Ehammer with Kyle Garland in third.
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