David Verburg

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David Verburg athletics

David Verburg Rio 2016.jpg

nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday May 14, 1991
place of birth Gainesville (Florida) , USA
size 172 cm
Weight 70 kg
Career
discipline 400 meter run
Best performance 44.41 s
Trainer Andrew Gerard
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor World Cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Relays 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4 × 400 m
World championships
gold 2013 Moscow 4 × 400 m
gold 2015 Beijing 4 × 400 m
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
gold 2014 Sopot 4 × 400 m
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
gold 2010 Moncton 4 × 400 m
IAAF logo IAAF World Relays
gold 2014 Nassau 4 × 400 m
gold 2015 Nassau 4 × 400 m
gold 2017 Nassau 4 × 400 m
last change: May 30, 2017

David Verburg (born May 14, 1991 in Gainesville , Florida ) is an American sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

At the 2010 Junior Athletics World Championships in Monckton, he won gold with the US team in the 4-by-400-meter relay . In 2012 he won the U23 NACAC championships in both the individual competition and the relay.

In 2013 he ran under 45 seconds for the first time in the semifinals of the US Championships before finishing sixth in the final. With the US relay he won the 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Championships in Moscow .

At the US championships in 2015, he won the 400-meter distance for the first time. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , he was able to repeat the success of Moscow with relay gold. In the individual competition, however, he narrowly missed the final, his semi-final time of 44.71 s was only seven hundredths of a second short of the final run.

Verburg failed again in the semifinals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . With 45.61 s he could not repeat his season best of 44.82 s, with which he had secured third place in the national eliminations. As the final runner in the preliminary round of the relay competition, he won his first Olympic gold medal even without having run in the final.

As a college athlete, he started for George Mason University , where he studied sports marketing .

Personal bests

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Footnotes

  1. a b c Athlete portrait from Team USA , accessed May 30, 2017.
  2. ^ The Official Athletic Site of George Mason University: David Verburg Bio