Andre De Grasse

Andre De Grasse
Andre De Grasse, Rio 2016
nation	Canada
birthday	10th November 1994 (age 25)
place of birth	Scarborough , Ontario ,  Canada
size	176 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.91 s ( 100 m ) 19.80 s ( 200 m )
society	puma
Trainer	Stuart McMillan (2015-2018) Rana Reider (since 2018)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 2 × World championships 0 × 1 × 3 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 200 m bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 100 m bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 4 × 100 m  World championships bronze Beijing 2015 100 m bronze Beijing 2015 4 × 100 m bronze Doha 2019 100 m silver Doha 2019 200 m

Andre De Grasse (born November 10, 1994 in Scarborough , Ontario ) is a Canadian sprinter .

At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 , he was eliminated over 200 meters in the semi-finals. In the 4 x 100 meter relay , he was part of the Canadian quartet that did not reach the finish in the final.

In 2015 he managed a double victory over 100 and 200 meters at the Pan American Games in Toronto . The Canadian 4 x 100 meter relay, of which he was the second runner, was the first to cross the finish line, but was disqualified because the first runner Gavin Smellie had crossed the track . At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, he and the American Trayvon Bromell won the bronze medal over 100 meters behind Usain Bolt (Jamaica) and Justin Gatlin (USA). He increased his personal best to 9.92 s. With the 4 x 100 meter relay of Canada, he also won the bronze medal.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he won the bronze medal over the 100 meters and the silver medal over the 200 meters. He also led the Canadian 4 x 100 meter relay as the final runner to the bronze medal. The Canadians had initially only achieved fourth place in a national record time of 37.64 s, but moved up one rank after the US relay was disqualified due to a substitution error.

At the 2019 World Championships in Doha ( Qatar ) he won the bronze medal over 100 meters after the Americans Christian Coleman and Justin Gatlin , where he improved his best performance. Over 200 m he won the silver medal behind Noah Lyles (USA).

Andre De Grasse studies at the University of Southern California . In 2015 he was NCAA champion over 100 and 200 meters.

Personal bests

• 60 m (hall):
  • 6.60s, Feb. 7, 2015, Lincoln
• 100 m:
  • 9.90 s (+ 0.6 m / s), September 28, 2019, Doha
  • With tailwind: 9.69 s (+ 4.8 m / s), June 18, 2017, Stockholm (together with Yohan Blake and Tyson Gay, second fastest sprinter to date)
• 200 m:
  • 19.80 s (- 0.3 m / s), August 17, 2016, Rio de Janeiro (Canadian record)
  • Hall: 20.26 s, March 14, 2015, Fayetteville (Canadian record)

Web links

• Andre De Grasse in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ HDsports: Usain Bolt celebrates 8th Olympic gold; Distelberger back in the decathlon . 19th August 2016
2. ↑ Parker Morse: Report: men's 4x100m final - Rio 2016 Olympic Games ( English ) IAAF. August 20, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
3. ^ IAAF: De Grasse runs windy 9.75 and 19.58 to win NCAA sprint titles . June 13, 2015