DeeDee Trotter
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Full name | De'Hashia Tonnek Trotter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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birthday | December 8, 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Twentynine Palms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 178 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 23.04 s ( 200 m ) 49.64 m ( 400 m ) |
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status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: August 19, 2012 |
DeeDee Trotter (actually: De'Hashia Tonnek Trotter ; born December 8, 1982 in Twentynine Palms ) is a former American sprinter . She is two-time relay Olympic champion and two-time relay world champion.
Career
Trotter currently lives in Knoxville , where she attends the University of Tennessee and also celebrated her first successes in the 200 and 400 meters in 2002. She gained international fame by winning the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis .
She celebrated her greatest success so far at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she won the gold medal together with Monique Henderson , Sanya Richards and Monique Hennagan in the 4 x 400 meter relay, ahead of the teams from Russia (silver) and Jamaica (Bronze). At the same event, she finished fifth in the 400-meter run . A month later, at the IAAF championships in Monaco , she took third place over 400 meters and on July 1, 2005 in Saint-Denis near Paris, she took sixth place at the Gaz de France meeting .
At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , she was fifth over 400 meters, as well as at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka . With the 4 x 400 meter relay, she could no longer start at the 2005 World Championships, as it was subsequently disqualified as the fastest in the semifinals due to a faulty substitution. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , she was again fifth and won gold with the relay.
In 2012 she ran at the Olympic Games in London in the final of the 400-meter run for a bronze medal and won the gold medal with the 4-by-400-meter relay made up of Deedee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory and Sanya Richards-Ross .
DeeDee Trotter is 1.78 m tall and has a competition weight of 64 kg.
Personal bests
- 100 m: 11.65 s
- 200 m: 23.04 s
- 400 m: 49.64 s
Web links
- DeeDee Trotter in the database of World Athletics (English)
- DeeDee Trotter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait on USA Track & Field
- Photos by DeeDee Trotter
Individual evidence
- ↑ HDsports.at: Bolt triumphs with Olympic record , 5th August 2012
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SURNAME | Trotter, DeeDee |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trotter, De'Hashia Tonnek |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sprinter and Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Twentynine Palms |