# 1931 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

The 1931 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships were organized by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and served as the national championships in outdoor track and field for the United States.
The men's edition was held at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it took place 3–4 July. The women's meet was held separately at Pershing Field in Jersey City, New Jersey, on 25 July.
At the men's championships, Percy Beard set the 110 m hurdles world record. In the women's competition, Babe Didrikson set the meet and American record in the baseball throw by throwing 296 feet (90 m). As the event fell out of favor after 1957, the mark is presumed by Track & Field News to be the world record for the farthest baseball throw by a woman as of 2021.
Though Stella Walsh did not compete in the women's discus throw, she stood in the outfield and helped return thrown discs back to the throwing area. One of her return throws struck James McBride, a spectator, and Walsh was subsequently arrested. Walsh was eventually set free, though she soon after moved to Poland and did not compete again at the USA Outdoor Championships until 1939.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 yards | Frank Wykoff | 9.5 | Emmett Toppino | | Eddie Tolan | |
| 220 yards straight | Eddie Tolan | 21.0 | Ralph Metcalfe | | Cyrus Leland | |
| 440 yards | Victor Williams | 48.8 | Art Woessner | | Talbot Hartley | |
| 880 yards | Edwin Genung | 1:52.6 | Otto Rosner | | Dale Letts | |
| 1 mile | Leo Lermond | 4:15.0 | Gene Venzke | 4:15.2 e | Frank Crowley | 4:15.9 e |
| 10,000 m | Lou Gregory | 31:26.4 | William Zepp | | Charles Shugert | |
| Marathon | William Agee | 2:32:08.8 | Yrjö Korholin-Koski (FIN) | 2:44:00.0 | Arthur Gavrin | 2:47:01.0 |
| 120 yards hurdles | Percy Beard | 14.2 | James Hatfield | 14.5 e | Lee Sentman | 14.5 e |
| 440 yards hurdles | Victor Burke | 54.2 | Richard Pomeroy | | Eugene Beatty | |
| 2 miles steeplechase | Joseph McCluskey | 10:11.6 | Forrest Harvey | | J. Clifton Watson | |
| High jump | Anton Burg | 1.97 m | Walter Marty | 1.94 m | Parker Shelby | 1.94 m |
| Pole vault | Jack Wool | 4.07 m | Marvin Harvey | 3.96 m | George Jefferson | 3.96 m |
| Long jump | Al Bates | 7.49 m | Ed Gordon | 7.36 m | Everett Utterback | 7.26 m |
| Triple jump | Robert Kelley | 14.51 m | Levi Casey | 14.48 m | George Martin | 14.47 m |
| Shot put | Herman Brix | 15.45 m | Leo Sexton | 15.20 m | Paul Jessup | 14.75 m |
| Discus throw | Paul Jessup | 46.46 m | Ed Moeller | 45.05 m | Harry Schneider | 45.00 m |
| Hammer throw | Edward Flanagan | 48.36 m | Ivan Dykeman | 48.00 m | Norwood Wright | 45.90 m |
| Javelin throw | James DeMers | 64.44 m | Kenneth Churchill | 59.82 m | Lee Weldon | 58.04 m |
| Decathlon | Jesse Mortensen | 8166.663 pts | Wilson Charles | 7758.829 pts | Clyde Coffman | 7575.820 pts |
| 220 yards hurdles | Robert Maxwell | 23.5 | | | | |
| Pentathlon | Jim Bausch | 3776.585 pts | | | | |
| Weight throw for distance | Leo Sexton | 10.70 m | | | | |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 50 yards | Alice Monk | 6.4 | Ethel Harrington | | Mary Ladewig | |
| 100 yards | Eleanor Egg | 11.4 | Evelyn Furtsch | | Stanislawa Walasiewicz | |
| 200 m | Stanislawa Walasiewicz | 26.4 | Olive Hasenfus | | Catherine Capp | |
| 80 m hurdles | Mildred Didrikson | 12.0 | Nellie Sharka | | Evelyne Hall | |
| High jump | Jean Shiley | 1.57 m | Annette Rogers | 1.50 m | Genevieve Valvoda | 1.47 m |
| Long jump | Mildred Didrikson | 5.47 m | Nellie Todd | 5.18 m | Alice Monk | 5.05 m |
| Shot put | Lillian Copeland | 12.25 m | Evelyn Ferrara | 11.07 m | Mildred Yetter | 10.99 m |
| Discus throw | Evelyn Ferrara | 33.18 m | Lillian Copeland | 33.09 m | Lucy Stratton | 30.72 m |
| Javelin throw | Lillian Copeland | 35.39 m | Elsie Sherman | 33.55 m | Nan Gindele | 32.92 m |
| Baseball throw | Babe Didrikson | 296 ft 0 in (90.22 m) | | | | |