1984 United States Olympic trials (track and field)

The national championships in track and field for the United States was a separate event that year, held a week earlier in San Jose, California.

In the women's 100 meters hurdles, the second, third and fourth-place finishers had the same time to the 100th of a second, with winner Kim Turner just one 100th ahead.

28 years later at the 2012 trials, Hightower as President of USATF had to administer over another similar tie in the women's 100 meters between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh that could not be separated by photo finish pictures.

The other close finish was in the men's 800 meters, where Earl Jones and Johnny Gray both received the same time of 1:43.74 to share the American Record from the same race.

1984 U.S. Olympic track and field trials results Key: ≠ Athlete without "A" standard, not selected.