Alvin Harrison

Alvin Harrison
nation	United States Dominican Republic
birthday	20th January 1974
place of birth	Orlando
size	188 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	44.09 s ( 400 m )
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 4 × 400 m silver Sydney 2000 400 m

Alvin Harrison (born January 20, 1974 in Orlando ) is a former American athlete and Olympic champion .

Career

Harrison, who comes from Florida , has lived through all the ups and downs of life together with his twin brother Calvin . His low point was probably 1995 when he was homeless with his brother.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he won the gold medal in the 4-by-400-meter relay race together with his teammates LaMont Smith , Derek Mills and Anthuan Maybank , in front of the teams from Great Britain and Jamaica .

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , he won the silver medal in the 400-meter run , behind his compatriot Michael Johnson and ahead of Gregory Haughton (JAM), and again the gold medal in the 400-meter relay, this time together with teammate Antonio Pettigrew , Calvin Harrison and Michael Johnson, ahead of the teams from Nigeria and Jamaica . This medal was stripped from him on August 2, 2008 for doping offenses by Antonio Pettigrew.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency stopped his sporting career in October 2004. He had been shown to have taken various performance-enhancing agents, some of which had not yet been proven. Harrison confessed to taking it and was given a four-year ban. Likewise, all titles and competition results that he had won after January 31, 2001 were stripped of him. After the suspension expired, Harrison started for the Dominican Republic for two years from 2009 .

Alvin Harrison had a competition weight of 80 kg with a height of 1.88 m.

Web links

• Alvin Harrison in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Alvin Harrison in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletes Sanctioned for a Doping Offence Committed During 2004. (No longer available online.) IAAF, archived from the original on October 25, 2012 ; accessed on August 24, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Alvin Harrison sprinting for Dominican Republic. USA Today, August 18, 2009; accessed August 24, 2012 .