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Welcome to my website!
Welcome to my website, this website is about athletics on how it interest
me and what I most admire about it, who are my favourites. What I enjoy
about this sport and what area I have been involved in.
The reason why I am involved in this sport is I like being fit, and it’s
a good feeling to be active.
I enjoy being a sprinter, running 4x100metres relay and 400metres for
my past school in the Caribbean W.I.
MARION JONES
Events: Sprints, Long Jump
Height: 5-11
Weight: 150
PRs: 100m - 10.65 (1998); 200m - 21.62 (1998); 400m - 49.59 (2000); LJ
- 7.31 m/23-11.75 (1998).
Born: October 12, 1975, in Los Angeles
College: North Carolina '97
Coach: Steve Riddick
Career Highlights: 2000 Olympic 100m, 200m & 4x400m champ, bronze
medal in LJ and 4x100m; 2-time World 100m champion (‘97, ‘99);
2-time World 4x100m champion (‘97, ‘01); 2001 World 200m gold
medalist; 13-time USA Outdoor Champion (4 in LJ, 4 in 100, 5 in 200);
2002 USA. Champion (100m & 200m); 1999 World LJ bronze medalist; 2002
World Cup 100m gold medalist.
JUSTIN GATLIN
Event: Sprints
Height: 6-1
Weight: 180
PR: 100m – 9.85 (2004), 200m – 19.98 (2002)
Born: February 10, 1982 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
High School: Woodham HS
College: University of Tennessee
Club: Nike
Career Highlights: 2005 World Outdoor 100m and 200m champion; 2005 USA
Outdoor 100m and 200m Champion; 2004 Olympic 100m gold medalist; 2004
Olympic 200m bronze medalist & 4x100m relay silver medalist; 2003
World Indoor 60m champion; 2003 USA Indoor 60m champion; 2002 NCAA Indoor
60m and 200m champion; 2002 NCAA Outdoor 100 & 200m champ; 2001 NCAA
Outdoor 100 and 200 meter champion; 2004 Jesse Owens Award winner
Gatlin had an amazing season in 2005, highlighted by winning the 100m
and 200m gold medals at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki, Finland.
Gatlin's victories made him only the second man ever to win both 100m
and 200m at the same World Outdoor Championships during the 10 occasions
the event has been held. Gatlin also won both sprints at the 2005 USA
Outdoor Championships in becoming the first man to win U.S. 100 and 200-meter
titles in the same year since Kirk Baptiste in 1985. One of the finest
young U.S. sprinters to come along in years, Gatlin fulfilled his promise
at the tender age of 22 in winning the gold medal in the men’s 100
meters at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
LAURYN WILLIAMS
Event: 100m
Height: 5-2
Weight: 127
PR: 100m- 10.93 (2005); 200m- 22.27 (2005)
Born: Sept. 11, 1983 in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Current Residence: Miami, Fla.
High School: Rochester High School (Pa.) '01
College: University of Miami '04
Coach: Amy Deem
Club: Nike
Career Highlights: 2005 World Outdoor 100m champion; 2005 World Outdoor
4X100m relay gold medalist; 2004 Olympic 100m silver medalist; 2004 NCAA
100m champion; 2003 Pan Am 100m and 4x100m relay gold medalist; 2002 World
Junior gold medalist 100m, silver in 4x100 relay; 2002 U.S. Junior 100m
champ; 3rd in the 100m at the 2004 Olympic Trials
The newest star in American sprinting, 21-year-old Lauryn Williams won
her first Olympic medal grabbing silver in the 100m at the 2004 Olympic
games in Athens in a brilliant and poised run.
The newest star in American sprinting, 21-year-old Lauryn Williams won
her first Olympic medal grabbing silver in the 100m at the 2004 Olympic
games in Athens in a brilliant and poised run.
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