Jonesboro, AR – (Contributed) – July 8, 2024 – Arkansas State track and field school record holder and three-time All-American Camryn Newton-Smith is set to compete on one of the world’s grandest stages, having been selected to represent Australia in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

Newton-Smith, who owns the program records in both the pentathlon and heptathlon, will compete for her home nation in the heptathlon. She is set to compete against 23 of the world’s top competitors on Aug. 8-9 at Stade de France in Paris.

The Greenbank, Queensland, native has consistently been among the world’s best, capped by capturing Australia and Oceania titles in the heptathlon in April and June, respectively. She boasts a lifetime-best score of 6,180 set at the Australian Championships in April – good for 19th in the official Road to Paris standings.

She becomes the program’s 11th all-time Olympic athlete and first since Jeff Hartwig competed in the pole vault at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. Her selection also extends a run of athletes and/or coaches with an A-State association to compete in 13 of the last 14 Summer Olympics, the lone exception being the boycotted 1980 Moscow Games.

A-STATE OLYMPIC ATHLETES – 11
1972 (Munich) – Tom Hill (bronze) – United States – 110m Hurdles
1976 (Montreal) – Ed Preston – United States – 4x100m Relay (alternate)
1976 (Montreal) – Earl Bell – United States – Pole Vault
1980 (Moscow) – No U.S. athletes competed due to boycott
1984 (Los Angeles) – Al Joyner (gold) – United States – Triple Jump
1984 (Los Angeles) – Earl Bell (bronze) – United States – Pole Vault
1988 (Seoul) – Earl Bell – United States – Pole Vault
1988 (Seoul) – Patterson Johnson – The Bahamas – Triple Jump
1992 (Barcelona) – Franck Waota – Cote d’Ivoire – 4x100m Relay
1996 (Atlanta) – Franck Waota – Cote d’Ivoire – 200m, 4x100m Relay
1996 (Atlanta) – Jeff Hartwig – United States – Pole Vault
2000 (Sydney) – Chad Harting – United States – Pole Vault
2000 (Sydney) – Kellie Suttle – United States – Pole Vault
2000 (Sydney) – Mesut Yavas – Turkey – Long Jump
2004 (Athens) – Kellie Suttle – United States – Pole Vault
2008 (Beijing) – Jeff Hartwig – United States – Pole Vault
2024 (Paris) – Camryn Newton-Smith – Australia – Heptathlon

EVENT COVERAGE
Competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be aired live on NBCOlympics.com, NBC, NBC Sports and Peacock.