Dawn Harper-Nelson

Dawn Harper
Dawn Harper at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu
nation	United States
birthday	May 13, 1984
place of birth	East St. Louis
size	168 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	100 m hurdles
Best performance	12.37 s
Trainer	Bob Kersee
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2008 Beijing 12.54 s silver 2012 London 12.37 s World Athletics Championships bronze 2011 Daegu 12.47 s silver 2017 London 12.63 s
last change: August 12, 2017

Dawn Harper (since her marriage in 2013 Dawn Harper-Nelson ; born May 13, 1984 ) is an American hurdler and Olympic champion in the 100 meter hurdles .

The US and Pan-American youth champion from 2003 came third in the US eliminations for the Olympic Games in Beijing and surprisingly won the gold medal in 12.54 s, 4 hundredths of a second below her previous personal record.

At the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu , she won the bronze medal in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.47 s. In London she was able to almost repeat her surprise success of 2008 at the 2012 Olympic Games . In the finals, Harper sprinted to a new personal record in 12.37 seconds and, as second, missed Olympic gold by just two hundredths.

In 2016, Harper tested positive for a diuretic during a doping control and was therefore banned for three months.

Dawn Harper is 1.68 m tall and weighs 61 kg. She comes from East St. Louis , studied psychology at UCLA from 2003 to 2006 and has lived in Los Angeles ever since , where she is trained by Bob Kersee. She starts for the sporting goods manufacturer Nike .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Top favorites do not stumble; Scrap strong eighth , HDsports.at, August 7, 2012
2. ↑ Harper-Nelson blocked for three months spox.com February 8, 2017

Web links

Commons : Dawn Harper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dawn Harper Nelson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field
• Athlete portrait at the UCLA track and field team