Nicole Yeargin

Nicole Yeargin (born 11 August 1997) is a Scottish-American athlete representing Great Britain who specialises in the 400 metres. She won three major medals as part of British women's 4 x 400 m relays, including bronze at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and 2023 World Athletics Championships.

Yeargin is the Scottish indoor record holder for the 400 m.

Early and personal life
Nicole Yeargin was born on 11 August 1997 and studied real estate development at the University of Southern California. Initially focused in high school on gymnastics, football (soccer), and American football, she began running track her senior year of high school. In 2019, she recorded personal bests of 23.26 seconds in the 200 metres and 52.76 seconds for the 400 metres. With an upbringing in Maryland, U.S. but with a mother from Dunfermline, Yeargin was cleared to represent Scotland in May 2020. Yeargin stated that her favourite thing about Scotland were sausage rolls.

Career
In May 2021, Yeargin clocked a personal best in the 400 m of 51.39 seconds to put her into second place in the British rankings for the season, and made it a double in terms of Commonwealth Games qualifying times with a 23.18 seconds run in the 200 m, which took her to fifth on the Scottish all-time lists. In June of the same year, she achieved the Olympic qualifying standard in the women’s 400 m with a new personal best of 50.96 seconds to reach the NCAA final, which moved her up to third on the Scottish all-time 400 metres list behind Allison Curbishley (50.71) and Lee McConnell (50.82). She also secured a place in the British team for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics at the British Olympic Trials. At the Games, Yeargin was disqualified in the heats of the individual women's 400 m, and placed in the finals fifth and sixth with the women's 4 x 400 m relay and mixed 4 x 400 m relay teams respectively.

Yeargin reached the semi-finals of the 400 metres event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. At the Munich European Championships a month later, she was part of British 4 x 400 quartet than ran the second fastest time ever by a British women's team of 3:21.74. Her own split time was 49.7 seconds.

Competing at the British Athletics Championships in July 2023, in Manchester, England, she reached the final of the women's 400m and finished in 6th place. She was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.

In April 2024, she was selected as part of the British team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. In July, Yeargin was named in the Great Britain 4x400 metres relay squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics

Personal bests

 * 100 metres – 11.68 (+1.4 m/s, Muncie, IN 2019)
 * 200 metres – 23.09 (-0.3 m/s, Fontainebleau 2022)
 * 300 metres – 37.15 (Philadelphia, PA 2022)
 * 300 metres indoor – 	36.80 (Fayetteville, AR 2023)
 * 400 metres – 50.96 (Eugene, OR 2021)
 * 400 metres indoor – 51.02 (Fayetteville, AR 2023) ( Scottish)