Aries Merritt After Kidney Transplant: My Fitness is Better Than It's Been in Two Years

Published by TeamUSA on March 8, 2016

Thanks to a new kidney, Aries Merritt resurrected an old goal.

He now has a chance to defend his Olympic gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Merritt’s kidney transplant ton Sept. 1, 2015 – four days after he won the bronze medal at the 2015 world championships in Beijing – was such a great success that he plans to return to competition this weekend in the 60-meter hurdles at the USATF Indoor Track & Field Championships in Portland, Oregon. The meet is the qualifier for the IAAF World Indoor Championships March 17-20 in Portland.