American Nico Young’s time of 26 minutes, 58.11 seconds would have set the Olympic record at any other prior Games. Yet he finished 12th in what was a great first Olympics for the openly gay runner.

Northern Arizona junior Nico Young celebrates winning the national championship in the men's 5k with his parents, Andrew (left) and Lynne, last Friday at the Track at New Balance in Boston.

Nico Young, an Olympics middle-distance runner, and Merrick McHenry, a middle blocker on UCLA’s consecutive NCAA volleyball championship teams, are Outsports 2024 Male Athletes of the Year.

Nico Young ran 26:58.11 – which astonishingly was only good enough for 12th place. For reference, before today zero athletes had ever broken 27:00 for 10,000m.

Nico Young is having his moment — again. In his second outdoor track race since making his first U.S. Olympic team in 2024, the 22-year-old Newbury Park High School graduate set the American ...

College track star Nico Young set an NCAA record over the weekend. And now, the Olympics are in his sights! The Northern Arizona University runner became the men’s record holder in the 5,000 ...

The long-distance 2024 Olympic qualifier, Nico Young, is a July 2002-born Californian, who set a record at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in 3000 and 5000 meters. In the 10,000-meter race at ...

Young’s time set the meet record and is currently the national best. Newbury Park’s Nico Young wins the 3200m race at the Arcadia Invitational with an impressive 8:40, including a 59-second ...

Nico Young is not stopping. Not even after reaching for the biggest goals and making them reality during an unforgettable boys cross country season. The Newbury Park High senior took exactly one ...

Nico Young’s first cross country course was a grassy, kidney bean-shaped backyard in Camarillo, which slopes steeply down into a barranca.

On June 23, Young attempted to set the national high school 5K record set by Galen Rupp in 2004 (13:37.91). Due to the coronavirus, Young had to run the race on a track -- his first ever 5K on a ...