Christian Coleman

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Christian Coleman athletics

Coleman (2018)
Coleman at the 2018 World Indoor Championships

nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 6th March 1996 (age 24)
place of birth Atlanta , United States
size 175 cm
Weight 72 kg
Career
discipline sprint
Best performance 6.34 s ( 60 m ) 9.76 s ( 100 m ) 19.85 s ( 200 m ) Current world record
Trainer Abigi Id-Deen
status active
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor world championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
silver London 2017 100 m
silver London 2017 4 × 100 m
gold Doha 2019 100 m
gold Doha 2019 4 × 100 m
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
gold Birmingham 2018 60 m
last change: December 16, 2019

Christian Coleman (born March 6, 1996 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American sprinter who became world champion over 100 meters in 2019 .

Athletic career

In 2016 Christian Coleman finished sixth in the trials for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and thus missed out on an individual participation. But he was nominated for the relay and helped the Americans to reach the finals with the 4 x 100 meter relay . In 2017 Coleman became the American college champion and ran a world best time of 9.82 s in the semi-finals. In addition, he became double champions over 60 and 200 meters in the hall.

Coleman (right) in the 100 meter final of the 2017 World Championships

On June 16, 2017, he signed a professional contract with Nike and waived another year at the University of Tennessee . At the US Championships in Sacramento , he finished second in both the 100 and 200 meters, but decided to start at the World Championships only over 100 meters and with the relay. At the 2017 World Championships in London , he won the silver medal over 100 meters behind his compatriot Justin Gatlin , who he also had to admit defeat in the trials, and in front of Usain Bolt .

On February 19, 2018, Coleman ran the 60-meter distance in 6.34 s at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque , New Mexico, improving Maurice Greene's 20-year-old indoor world record by five hundredths of a second. On January 19, 2018, Coleman had already fallen below Greene's old world record in 6.37 s at the Clemson Invitational , but the run was not recognized as a world record by the IAAF because no electronic starting blocks were used at the meeting. At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham he won the gold medal over 60 m shortly afterwards with a new championship record of 6.37 s. In the outdoor season, Coleman played only a few competitions, due to a thigh injury, he canceled the Diamond League meetings in Paris , Lausanne and London in June and July . Nevertheless, he was able to qualify for the 100 meter final of the Diamond League in Brussels . There he won with a world best time and new personal best of 9.79 s and won the prize money of 50,000 US dollars.

In 2019 he lost just 9.86 seconds to his compatriot Noah Lyles at the start of the season in Shanghai . In subsequent victories in Oslo and Palo Alto , he improved the world annual best to 9.85 s and 9.81 s. Over the 200-meter distance, he stayed under 20 seconds in two races in Ostrava and Székesfehérvár . At the end of July, in the absence of the reigning world champion Gatlin and Lyles, who concentrated on 200 meters, he won the US championships in 9.99 seconds. Over 200 meters, he won the silver medal behind Noah Lyles with 20.02 seconds. At the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha , he won the gold medal with a new personal best of 9.76 s in the 100 m final .

Suspected doping in 2019

On August 22, 2019, the British newspaper Daily Mail reported that Coleman had missed three doping tests within twelve months, which could result in a ban of up to two years. On August 24, the US anti-doping agency USADA issued a statement confirming the investigation and announcing a hearing from Coleman on September 4th. It is about three missed tests within a year, in each of which Coleman did not give his whereabouts as required. The USADA inspectors were responsible for two of the three tests in question, and the independent AIU integrity commission of the IAAF World Athletics Federation for the third . Coleman denied such a violation in his own statement.
On September 2, the USADA dropped the process with the consent of WADA after Coleman successfully objected to the dating of one of the three controls. Art. 2.4 of the World Anti-Doping Code provides for the possibility of a ban only if three so-called whereabout failures - which are given in the case of missed tests, but also in the case of insufficient residence information - are present within twelve months. The first of the offenses in question was, however, corrected to April 1, 2018 as the first day of the second quarter by which Coleman would have had to provide full whereabouts information instead of July 6, 2018, on which the test was missed, and is thus more than a year before the third test on April 26, 2019.

statistics

Personal best

Event Time (s) place date
60 meters 6.34 Albuquerque February 18, 2018
100 meters 9.76 Doha September 28, 2019
200 metres 19.85 Lexington May 27, 2017

Web links

Commons : Christian Coleman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christian Coleman. In: TeamUSA.org. United States Olympic Committee , accessed February 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Tennessee's Christian Coleman runs record 9.82 in 100 at NCAA track championships. In: usatoday.com. USA Today , June 8, 2017, accessed February 19, 2018 .
  3. ^ Christian Coleman. In: utsports.com. University of Tennessee , accessed August 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Coleman sprints to world record. In: sport1.de. Sport1 Medien AG , February 19, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Sprinter Christian Coleman slow to recover from hamstring injury In: cbc.ca , June 20, 2018, accessed on September 3, 2019 (English).
  6. ↑ Ronnie Baker wins 100 meters; Tom Bosworth sets walking world record In: espn.com , July 21, 2018, accessed September 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ Diamond League 2018: These are the winners In: Leichtathletik.de , September 1, 2018, accessed on September 3, 2019.
  8. ↑ In 9.76 seconds: Coleman sprints to World Cup gold | NZZ . September 28, 2019, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on September 28, 2019]).
  9. ↑ EXCLUSIVE: World's fastest man Christian Coleman 'has missed THREE drugs tests' to leave Usain Bolt's successor fighting for his reputation In: dailymail.co.uk. , August 22, 2019, accessed on September 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ a b Three missed doping tests - Coleman is heard by the anti-doping agency In: spiegel.de , August 25, 2019, accessed on September 3, 2019.
  11. ↑ USADA discontinues doping investigation against Christian Coleman In: Leichtathletik.de , September 2, 2019, accessed on September 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ Whereabouts Violation Case Against US Track & Field Athlete Christian Coleman Withdrawn In: usada.org , September 2, 2019, accessed on September 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Coleman, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia , United States