Andre Phillips

Andre Lamar Phillips (born September 5, 1959 in Milwaukee ) is a former American athlete and Olympic champion . With a height of 1.88 m, his competition weight was 84 kg.

Career

In 1983 Andre Phillips was the second US athlete after Edwin Moses to stay under 48 seconds in the 400 meter hurdles when he ran 47.78 seconds in Cologne. At the World Championships in 1983 two weeks earlier, he was fifth in 49.24 seconds.

After failing to qualify for the 1984 Olympic Games, he won the 1985 World Cup in 48.42 seconds. In 1985 Andre Phillips was also able to set his best time in the 110-meter hurdles with 13.25 seconds.

At the trials for the 1988 Olympic Games , two-time world and Olympic gold medalists Edwin Moses, Andre Phillips and Kevin Young qualified in the 400-meter hurdles . All three also won their Olympic heat. The first semi-final won Moses before Young, the second semi-final Phillips won before the Jamaican Winthrop Graham . Since Edwin Moses was the only one who stayed under 48 seconds, he was considered the favorite. In the final, Andre Phillips set his personal best with 47.19 seconds and won gold, albeit only four hundredths of a second ahead of Amadou Dia Ba from Senegal. Edwin Moses won bronze in 47.56 seconds and Kevin Young was the fourth runner under 48 seconds. For Edwin Moses the race was the only defeat at an international championship, for Andre Phillips it was the only victory.

Andre Phillips, who graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles , now works as a teacher in California.

Doping allegations

Andre Phillips tested positive for the doping agent pseudoephedrine at the only qualifying competition for the Olympic Games in 1988, as did Joe DeLoach and Carl Lewis , so that he would automatically have been banned from the Olympic Games. Due to an objection, he was given permission to start and then won the gold medal in Seoul.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Sports Illustrated : An ex-USOC official says some athletes were allowed to bend the drug rules ( Memento of August 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), April 15, 2003

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996 Track and Fields Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV