Christian Taylor (athlete)

Christian Taylor
Christian Taylor 2015 in Doha
nation	United States
birthday	18th June 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	long Island
size	188 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump , long jump
Best performance	18.21 m, 8.19 m
Trainer	Rana Reider
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 1 × 0 × Youth World Cup 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2012 London Triple jump gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro Triple jump  World championships gold 2011 Daegu Triple jump gold 2015 Beijing Triple jump gold 2017 London Triple jump gold 2019 Doha Triple jump  Indoor world championships silver 2012 Istanbul Triple jump  Youth World Championships gold 2007 Ostrava Triple jump bronze 2007 Ostrava Long jump  IAAF World Relays gold 2014 Nassau 4 × 400 m
last change: September 29, 2019

Christian Taylor (born June 18, 1990 in Long Island ) is an American triple jumper . He became world champion in 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2019 and Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016.

Athletic career

At the 2007 Youth World Championships he won gold in the triple jump and bronze in the long jump . The following year he reached eighth and seventh places at the Junior World Championships . As a student at the University of Florida , he was NCAA indoor NCAA champion in 2009 and 2010, and outdoors in 2010 .

After becoming US runner-up in 2010, he drove as US champion to the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, where he won the gold medal in the triple jump. With his winning distance of 17.96 m, he took fifth place in the all-time world best list. In 2012 Taylor was runner-up in Istanbul . At the Olympic Games in London he won the gold medal with a width of 17.81 m. The following year he missed a medal in fourth with 17.20 m at the World Championships in Moscow .

2014, he initially began as a 400-meter runner, and he increased s in April its best performance at 45.17 and so in May at the 2014 IAAF World Relays went, where it meets the 4 x 400-meter relay team first has been. Then he concentrated again on the jumping disciplines, more often than in previous years in the long jump, where he was able to convince with jumps over 8 meters in New York and Birmingham. In the triple jump he had to admit defeat to his permanent rival Will Claye at the US championships , at the end of the season in Zurich he set a season best of 17.51 ​​m.

Taylor after winning gold in Beijing (2015)

The following year he concentrated fully on the triple jump. There the season developed into a duel between him and the Cuban Pedro Pablo Pichardo . The two met at the first meeting of the season in Doha and for the first time in the history of the sport two athletes jumped over 18 meters in one competition. Taylor improved his best performance to 18.04 m, but had to admit defeat Pichardo by two centimeters. After two wins in Ostrava and Birmingham in Pichardo's absence, the two only met again in Lausanne in July. There Taylor won with a new personal best of 18.06 m, 7 centimeters ahead of Pichardo. He also won the last meeting before the World Championships in Beijing with 17.75 m. At the world championships, he won the gold medal with the second-longest jump of all time. With 18.21 m in the sixth attempt, he relegated long-term competitor Pichardo to silver.

In 2016 Taylor took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was able to secure the gold medal in the triple jump with a width of 17.86 meters ahead of Will Claye.

From 2012 to 2017 and 2019 he won the overall ranking of the Diamond League seven times , making him the most successful athlete alongside Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie .

Christian Taylor is 1.88 meters tall and weighs 79 kg. He is trained by Rana Reider, who also looks after the long jump world champion Dwight Phillips . In 2011 he was signed by the sporting goods manufacturer Li Ning Company Limited .

Private

Christian Taylor has been engaged to the Austrian athlete Beate Schrott (* 1988) since 2019 .

Personal best

• 400 m : 45.17 s, April 25, 2014, Des Moines
• Long jump: 8.19 m, May 15, 2010, Knoxville
  • Hall: 8.02 m, February 13, 2009, Fayetteville
• Triple jump: 18.21 m, August 27, 2015, Beijing
  • Hall: 17.63 m, March 11, 2012, Istanbul

Web links

Commons : Christian Taylor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian Taylor in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Christian Taylor in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GatorZone.com: Bio: Christian Taylor ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2012 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. 
2. ^ IAAF: Inspired by Dwight Phillips, Taylor flies to Triple Jump glory ( Memento of March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). 4th September 2011
3. ↑ Taylor: How long do you put up with that? (February 8, 2020)