Chris Jones (athlete)

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Chris Jones (born October 8, 1973 ) is a former American athlete , whose specialty was the 400-meter run .

Sporting controversy

Jones celebrated his supposedly greatest sporting success at the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997 , when he was the first to finish the 4-by-400-meter relay together with Jerome Young , Antonio Pettigrew and Tyree Washington . With 2: 56.47 minutes the Americans were originally ahead of the teams from Great Britain around Roger Black (2: 56.65 min), the national record running team from Jamaica (2: 56.75 min) and Poland (3: 00.26 min). Due to a doping scandal by Antonio Pettigrew , the US season that was originally named world champion was subsequently disqualified in 2009.

Personal best

  • 400 meters - 45.20 s (1999)

Individual evidence

  1. Official IAAf World Cup results list ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.iaaf.org
  2. IAAF athlete profile