DeeDee Trotter

DeeDee Trotter
Trotter at the 2012 Olympics
Full name	De'Hashia Tonnek Trotter
nation	United States
birthday	December 8, 1982
place of birth	Twentynine Palms
size	178 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	23.04 s ( 200 m ) 49.64 m ( 400 m )
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Athens 2004 4 × 400 m gold London 2012 4 × 400 m bronze London 2012 400 m  World championships gold Paris 2003 4 × 400 m gold Osaka 2007 4 × 400 m  Indoor world championships gold Doha 2010 4 × 400 m
last change: August 19, 2012

DeeDee Trotter (actually: De'Hashia Tonnek Trotter ; born December 8, 1982 in Twentynine Palms ) is a former American sprinter . She is two-time relay Olympic champion and two-time relay world champion.

Career

Trotter currently lives in Knoxville , where she attends the University of Tennessee and also celebrated her first successes in the 200 and 400 meters in 2002. She gained international fame by winning the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis .

She celebrated her greatest success so far at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she won the gold medal together with Monique Henderson , Sanya Richards and Monique Hennagan in the 4 x 400 meter relay, ahead of the teams from Russia (silver) and Jamaica (Bronze). At the same event, she finished fifth in the 400-meter run . A month later, at the IAAF championships in Monaco , she took third place over 400 meters and on July 1, 2005 in Saint-Denis near Paris, she took sixth place at the Gaz de France meeting .

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , she was fifth over 400 meters, as well as at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka . With the 4 x 400 meter relay, she could no longer start at the 2005 World Championships, as it was subsequently disqualified as the fastest in the semifinals due to a faulty substitution. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , she was again fifth and won gold with the relay.

In 2012 she ran at the Olympic Games in London in the final of the 400-meter run for a bronze medal and won the gold medal with the 4-by-400-meter relay made up of Deedee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory and Sanya Richards-Ross .

DeeDee Trotter is 1.78 m tall and has a competition weight of 64 kg.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 11.65 s
• 200 m: 23.04 s
• 400 m: 49.64 s

Web links

Commons : DeeDee Trotter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• DeeDee Trotter in the database of World Athletics (English)
• DeeDee Trotter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait on USA Track & Field
• Photos by DeeDee Trotter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HDsports.at: Bolt triumphs with Olympic record , 5th August 2012