Allen Johnson

Allen Johnson
Allen Johnson 2007 in Berlin
Full name	Allen Kenneth Johnson
nation	United States
birthday	March 1, 1971
place of birth	Washington, DC
size	178 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	12.92 s ( 110-meter hurdles )
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 4 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 3 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 110 m hurdles World championships gold Gothenburg 1995 110 m hurdles gold Athens 1997 110 m hurdles gold Edmonton 2001 110 m hurdles gold Paris 2003 110 m hurdles bronze Helsinki 2005 110 m hurdles Indoor world championships gold Barcelona 1995 60 m hurdles gold Birmingham 2003 60 m hurdles gold Budapest 2004 60 m hurdles silver Valencia 2008 60 m hurdles

Allen Kenneth Johnson (born March 1, 1971 in Washington, DC ) is a retired American track and field athlete.

Career

Johnson began his athletics career as a decathlete. His best disciplines were high jump and long jump. He later specialized in the 110 meter hurdles . From the mid-1990s, he was the world's best hurdle sprinter . He won the world title at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 and was Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in Atlanta a year later . He also won gold at the 1997 World Championships in Athens , 1999 in Seville and 2003 in Paris . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he was plagued by injuries, but fought his way through to the final, where he had no chance of a medal. He was also unlucky at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where he stepped into a hurdle and fell in the second qualifying round. His personal best is 12.92 s. He competed in eleven races with a time under 13 seconds, more than any other hurdler in history. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , he went to win his fifth world title, which he did not succeed. The 34-year-old won the bronze medal. The French Ladji Doucouré became world champion .

In July 2010, he announced that he was ending his athletic career.

Allen Johnson is 1.78 m tall and weighed 70 kg at competition times.

110-meter hurdles under 13 seconds

Most of the 110 meter hurdles under 13 seconds

rank	Track and field athlete	number
1.	Allen Johnson	11
2.	David Oliver	9
3.	Dayron Robles	8th
	Aries Merritt	8th
5.	Liu Xiang	6th
6th	Colin Jackson	5
7th	Omar McLeod	4th
As of May 7, 2018

time	wind	date	place
12.92	0.9	June 23, 1996	Atlanta
12.92	0.2	23 Aug 1996	Brussels ( Memorial Van Damme )
12.93	0.0	0Aug 7, 1997	Athens ( World Championships 1997 )
12.95	0.6	July 29, 1996	Atlanta ( XXVI. OS )
12.96	0.4	17 Sep 2006	Athens
12.97	−0.5	July 13, 1997	Stuttgart
12.97	1.5	July 23, 2000	Sacramento
12.97	0.0	04th July 2003	Saint-Denis
12.98	0.2	Aug 18, 1995	Cologne
12.98	−0.3	Aug 12, 1998	Zurich ( world class Zurich )
12.99	0.2	June 24, 2005	Carson

Personal best

• 100 m: 10.41 s
• 200 m: 20.26 s
• 400 m: 48.27 s
• 60 m hurdles: 7.36 s
• 110 m hurdles: 12.92 s
• 400 m hurdles: 52.00 s
• High jump: 2.11 m
• Long jump: 7.85 m
• Triple jump: 14.83 m

Web links

Commons : Allen Johnson  - Collection of Pictures

• Allen Johnson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field
• Allen Johnson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All-time men's best 110m hurdles
2. ^ IAAF: Curtain draws on career of 7-time World champion Johnson ( Memento from July 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). July 16, 2010