Chryste Gaines

Chryste Gaines
Full name	Chryste Dionne Gaines
nation	United States
birthday	September 14, 1970
place of birth	Lawton
size	170 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.86 s ( 100 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 0 × 0 × 1 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 4 × 100 m bronze Sydney 2000 4 × 100 m  World championships gold Gothenburg 1995 4 × 100 m gold Athens 1997 4 × 100 m silver Paris 2003 4 × 100 m  Indoor world championships bronze Lisbon 2001 60 m  Pan American Games gold Mar del Plata 1995 100 m

Chryste Dionne Gaines (born September 14, 1970 in Lawton ) is a former American athlete who specializes in the 100-meter run .

In 2001 she won the title at the US 100-meter championship. Internationally, she appeared as the winner of the Pan American Games in 1995 in Mar del Plata over 100 meters and third at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2001 in Lisbon over 60 meters .

However, she celebrated her greatest successes as a member of the US 4 x 100 meter relay . She won the gold medal with the relay at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, as well as two gold medals and one silver medal at the World Athletics Championships.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , she finished third together with Marion Jones , Torri Edwards and Nanceen Perry . In 2007, however, Marion Jones confessed to doping substance abuse and returned her five Olympic medals from Sydney, including the bronze medal from the 4 x 100 meter relay. In the following year, the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee decided to also withdraw the medal from their teammates.

As part of the BALCO affair in December 2005, Gaines himself was banned by the USADA for two years retrospectively to June of that year, and all results were canceled from November 2003 onwards. After her suspension expired, she clearly missed qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .

Chryste Gaines is 1.70 m tall and had a competition weight of 57 kg.

Top performances

• 100 m: 10.86 s, September 14, 2003, Monaco
• 200 m : 20.67 s, September 23, 2003, Yokohama
• 60 m (hall): 7.12 s, March 11, 2001, Lisbon

Web links

• Chryste Gaines in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gbrathletics.com: United States Championships (women)
2. ↑ Focus online: Doping sinner Jones - colleagues get rid of medals , April 4, 2008
3. ^ Christian Fuchs: Tim Montgomery blocked - world record annulled , www.leichtathletik.de December 13, 2005