2002 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

The combined track and field events were contested at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley, California in the two days preceding the start of the main programme.

[1] Marion Jones won a women's 100 m/200 m sprint double – the third time in her career that she had done so, and her fifth straight 200 m win.

[3] The sprinting events were affected by retrospective doping disqualifications: the original men's 200 m and 400 m winners Ramon Clay and Alvin Harrison were stripped of their national titles.

Darvis Patton and Angelo Taylor were raised to the status of national champion as a result.

[5] Four American national champions went on to win at that year's IAAF World Cup competition: James Carter (400 m hurdles), Savanté Stringfellow (long jump) Adam Nelson (shot put) and Gail Devers (100 m hurdles).