Dennis Mitchell

Dennis Mitchell
Full name	Dennis Allen Mitchell
nation	United States
birthday	February 20, 1966
place of birth	Havelock, South Carolina
size	175 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.91 s ( 100 m )
status	resigned
End of career	2001
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 1 × World championships 2 × 0 × 2 ×
Olympic games gold Barcelona 1992 4 × 100 m bronze Barcelona 1992 100 m silver Atlanta 1996 4 × 100 m  World championships gold Tokyo 1991 4 × 100 m bronze Tokyo 1991 100 m gold Stuttgart 1993 4 × 100 m bronze Stuttgart 1993 100 m

Dennis Allen Mitchell (born February 20, 1966 in Havelock , South Carolina ) is a retired American athlete and Olympic champion .

Career

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, he finished fourth in the 100-meter run and awarded a possible gold medal in the 4-by-100-meter relay because the American team was disqualified in the qualifying runs after Calvin Smith and Lee McNeill failed to hand over the baton within the given range. In 1989 Mitchell won the gold medal in the 200-meter run at the NCAA championships and in 1991, a week before the world championships, he ran his first world record with 37.67 s in Zurich in the 4-by-100-meter relay race in the US team . At the World Championships in Tokyo he won the bronze medal in the 100-meter run in 9.91 s and ran another world record in the US team with 37.50 s.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he won the bronze medal over 100 meters, behind the Briton Linford Christie and the Namibian Frank Fredericks , as well as the team gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay race, together with his teammate Michael Marsh , Leroy Burrell and Carl Lewis , ahead of the teams from Nigeria and Cuba . At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, he won his third bronze medal over 100 meters and his third team gold medal with a world record, this time with a time of 37.40 seconds.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he finished fourth over 100 meters and won the team silver medal 4 x 100 meter relay race, together with his teammates Jon Drummond , Tim Harden and Michael Marsh, behind the team from Canada and in front the team from Brazil .

In 2001 Mitchell took part in an international elimination for the last time, at the World Championships in Edmonton , where he again won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay race. This medal was later revoked from the US team because Tim Montgomery was involved in a doping case.

Because of his mostly bright green and yellow racing suits, he was called "the green machine".

Today he works as a trainer, u. a. by Damu Cherry , Justin Gatlin .

doping

In 1998, Mitchell was banned by the IAAF for doping for two years because a test had shown that testosterone levels were too high . Justin Gatlin dismissed him as a trainer at the end of December 2017 when the US anti-doping agency USADA and the IAAF's independent integrity commission (AIU) began investigations into doping allegations.

Awards

• 1993: " World Team of the Year " - 4 x 100 meter relay with Jon Drummond , Andre Cason and Leroy Burrell ( La Gazzetta dello Sport )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Drugs in world athletics bbc.co.uk July 31, 2000
2. ↑ Justin Gatlin denies new doping allegations , investigations initiated, on: Leichtathletik.de, December 19, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017