2022 In March 2022, Wilson ran a time of 48.41 seconds outdoors for the 400 meters as a 14 year-old. In August 2022, he won his fifth
AAU Junior Olympic Games title, winning the 400 meters in a time of 47.77 seconds, having run 47.59 on the semi-finals. He also finished second in the
200 meters, in a time of 22.42 seconds.
2023 In March 2023, he won the
New Balance Nationals Indoor title over 400 meters in
Boston, Massachusetts with a time of 46.67 seconds. In April 2023, he ran a 400 meters split of 45.06 seconds at the
Penn Relays in
Philadelphia. In June 2023, he finished second at the
New Balance Nationals Outdoor over 400 meters, held in
Franklin Field,
Philadelphia. In September 2023, he became one of the youngest American athletes to sign a
name, image and likeness (NIL) contract with a major sports brand company.
2024 At the VA Showcase in January, in the boys’ invitational
500 meters, Wilson ran a U.S. age-group No. 2 all-time mark of 1:01.27, narrowly missing
Will Sumner’s national high school record by 0.02 seconds. He also was part of a sprint relay team that set a
national high school record at the event. In February, at the East Coast Invitational in
Virginia Beach, he ran a personal best time of 21.02 seconds for the
200 meters. At the
Millrose Games, Wilson ran the second fastest all-time high school boys' 600 m mark, with a time of 1:17.36. Also in February, Wilson ran a personal best time of 33.11 in the 300 m at the Ocean Breeze Elite Invitational. In March, he retained his title at the
New Balance Nationals Indoor 400 m title in Boston in a national high school indoors record time of 45.76 seconds. The time would have been enough to finish fourth in the final of the 400 meters at the
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and surpassed the ratified 400 m under-18 world best of 46.01 seconds set by
Tyrese Cooper in 2017. Wilson also
anchored his school's 4 × 400 relay team who then broke their own national record again, this time with a mark of 3:11.87. On March 29, Wilson ran 45.19 seconds for the 400 m at the Florida Relays. On April 5, Wilson ran 1:50.44 in the
800 m, at the Beach Run Invitational in
Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina. On April 27, Wilson split a 44.37 400 m as
Bullis School's anchor leg in the preliminary High School Boys'
4 × 400 m at the
Penn Relays. This stands as the fastest high school 400 meter split ever recorded at the Penn Relays. Later that day, in the High School Boys' 4 × 400 Championship of America, Wilson would split another sub-45 second 400 m anchor leg, with a time of 44.69. In both the preliminaries and the finals, one of Wilson's teammates was tripped and had to recover the baton, giving Bullis a major setback. In the preliminaries, with his impressive 44.37 split, Wilson was able to close the gap, bringing his team home in a time of 3:14.84, thereby winning their heat and being the fourth fastest qualifier. However, in the finals, even with Wilson's 44.69 split, the gap to the leaders was too large, and could not be made up. In the finals, Bullis finished in third, in a time of 3:13.10. In second was
Jamaica's Excelsior (3:12.94) and taking the win was Jamaica's Kingston College (3:11.86). On June 21, at the
U.S. Olympic Trials, Wilson set the outdoor under-18 boys world best in the preliminaries of the 400 m, in a time of 44.66, which was the second fastest 400 m time of the day, only behind
Quincy Hall's 44.60. He would then better this record 2 days later on June 23, with a time of 44.59 in the semifinals, which qualified him for the finals. Although Wilson did not make the individual 400 meter team, he was added to the men's 4 × 400 m relay pool, making him the youngest American track & field male Olympian in history. On July 19, in the final weeks before the
2024 Paris Olympics, Wilson improved his 400 meter personal best and under-18 world best to 44.20 at the Holloway Pro Classic in Gainesville. In a very close finish, Wilson outran
Bryce Deadmon, with Deadmon just behind Wilson at 44.23. On August 9, in the heats of the
4 × 400 m relay at the
2024 Summer Olympics, Wilson was the leadoff leg, with
Vernon Norwood second,
Bryce Deadmon third, and
Christopher Bailey fourth. He split a time of 47.27, which put him in seventh place when he handed off to Vernon Norwood while Botswana's
Letsile Tebogo took the lead in a split of around 44.4. Although Wilson's split was well off his personal best and poor when compared to his teammates (Norwood at around 43.6, Deadmon at around 44.2, and Bailey at around 44.05), Team USA nonetheless qualified for the final in a time of 2:59.15 behind Great Britain (2:58.88) and Botswana (2:57.76). In the final on August 10, the United States, consisting of Bailey (44.45), Norwood (43.26), Deadmon (43.54), and
Rai Benjamin (43.18), won gold in a new Olympic record of 2:54.43, which was 0.14 seconds off of the 4 x 400 m world record of 2:54.29, set in 1993 by an American team consisting of
Andrew Valmon (44.43),
Quincy Watts (43.59),
Butch Reynolds (43.36), and
Michael Johnson (42.91). By extension, for his participation in the heats, Wilson earned a gold medal, becoming the youngest track and field Olympic gold medalist in history.
2025 On January 17, at the Virginia Showcase, Wilson lost to
Andrew Salvodon in the short track
500 meters. Salvodon set a new U.S. high school national record in the event of 1:00.49, breaking
Will Sumner's previous record of 1:01.25, while Wilson finished two seconds behind in 1:02.49. On February 2, at the
New Balance Grand Prix, Wilson, competing in the professional indoor 400 meters, improved his high school national record and under-18 world best in the event, running 45.66 to beat
Will Sumner,
Jereem Richards, and
Zakithi Nene. He finished fifth over 400 metres at the
2025 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. On July 12, he lowered his personal best to 44.10 seconds for the 400 meters at the Ed Murphey Track Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event, in
Memphis, Tennessee. The time moved him to No. 2 on the all-time under-20 list behind
Steve Lewis who ran 43.87 to win gold at the 1988 Olympic Games, and also moved him to No. 2 on the all-time performance list, ahead of the 44.11 seconds run by Lewis in the U.S. Olympic trials that year. On August 1, at the
2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Wilson was eliminated in the semifinal round of the 400 meters, finishing fourth in his heat with a time of 45.39. On November 24, he announced his commitment to join the
University of Maryland's track and field program for 2026. ==Achievements==