Dwight Phillips

Dwight Phillips
nation	United States
birthday	1st October 1977
place of birth	Decatur (Georgia)
size	180 cm
Weight	82 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.74 m
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 4 × 0 × 1 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Athens 2004 Long jump World championships gold Paris 2003 Long jump gold Helsinki 2005 Long jump bronze Osaka 2007 Long jump gold Berlin 2009 Long jump gold Daegu 2011 Long jump Indoor world championships gold Birmingham 2003 Long jump

Dwight Phillips (born October 1, 1977 in Decatur , Georgia ) is a former American track and field athlete who specialized in the long jump . In this discipline he was once Olympic champion and four times world champion.

Sports career

Phillips started out as a sprinter , but soon switched to the triple jump , in which he achieved a personal best of 16.41 m in 1999, and the long jump. In the latter, he qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , where he finished eighth. In 2003 he won gold at both the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham and the World Championships in Paris . In 2004 he qualified as the first of the US trials for the Olympic Games in Athens , where he was Olympic champion with 8.59 m. He defended his title at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka . At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin and at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , he won the gold medal again both times.

At the US Trials in 2008, Phillips was fourth unable to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing and fell victim to the tough American qualification procedure.

With his best performance of 8.74 m, Phillips ranks seventh on the all-time world best list together with Larry Myricks and Erick Walder (as of August 22, 2009).

Dwight Phillips is 1.80 m tall and weighs 82 kg.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.74 m
• Triple jump: 16.41 m
• 100 m : 10.06 s
• 200 m : 20.68 s

Web links

Commons : Dwight Phillips  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Long Jump All Time . www.iaaf.org. Retrieved August 22, 2009.