Frank Fredericks

Frankie Fredericks
Full name	Frank Fredericks
nation	Namibia
birthday	October 2nd, 1967
place of birth	Windhoek,  Namibia
Career
discipline	100 meters 200 meters
Best performance	9.86 seconds 19.68 seconds
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
Type of medals 2 × 8 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 1992 Barcelona 100 meters silver 1992 Barcelona 200 metres silver 1996 Atlanta 100 meters silver 1996 Atlanta 200 metres  World championships silver 1991 Tokyo 200 metres gold 1993 Stuttgart 200 metres silver 1995 Gothenburg 200 metres silver 1997 Athens 200 metres  Indoor world championships silver 1993 Toronto 60 meters gold 1999 Maebashi 200 metres

Frank Fredericks , mostly Frankie Fredericks (born October 2, 1967 in Windhoek , South West Africa ), is a former Namibian athlete who won the first and so far only Olympic medals for his homeland in the 100 and 200 meters .

Life

He worked at Rössing before receiving a scholarship from Brigham Young University in the United States in 1987 . After his home country gained independence from South Africa in 1990 , he was able to compete in international sporting events for Namibia.

At the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo , he won the silver medal over 200 meters and reached 5th place over 100 meters. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona he won the silver medal in the 100-meter run behind Linford Christie (GBR) and in front of Dennis Mitchell (USA) as well as the silver medal in the 200-meter run behind Michael Marsh (USA) and in front of Michael Bates (USA) ).

In 1993 he won the world championships in Stuttgart over 200 meters with 19.85 seconds, his best time up to that point, and was sixth over 100 meters. In 1994 he won bronze over 100 meters and gold over 200 meters at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria . At the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg , he won silver over 200 meters and took fourth place over 100 meters. The following year, he set the current indoor world record over 200 meters with 19.92 seconds.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , his silver medal double was repeated. Over 100 meters he was beaten only by Donovan Bailey (CAN), over 200 meters only by Michael Johnson (USA). In both races he relegated Ato Boldon from Trinidad and Tobago to third place.

In 1997 he repeated his placements from Gothenburg at the World Championships in Athens : silver over 200 meters and fourth place over 100 meters. In 1998 he won silver over 100 meters at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur , and at the 1999 World Indoor Championships in Maebashi he won gold over 200 meters.

Then injuries made him to create so that he failed in the qualification at the 1999 World Championships in Seville on both sprint courses.

On April 7, 1999, he founded the Frank Fredericks Foundation in Windhoek , a non-profit foundation for promoting sport .

At the Commonwealth Games 2002 he reported back and won the gold medal over 200 meters. At the 2003 World Championships in Paris , he finished seventh, and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he was the oldest athlete to ever reach an Olympic sprint final. He finished fourth in the 200-meter run.

When he retired from active sport in the same year, he had run the 100 meters 27 times in less than 10 seconds and was number 3 in the all-time leaderboard. Fredericks was elected to the IOC during the Olympic Games in Athens and has represented Namibia on the International Olympic Committee since August 29, 2004. In August 2008 he was elected to succeed Serhiy Bubkas as chairman of the IOC Athletes' Commission and thus a member of the IOC Executive Committee. In June 2009 he was elected President of Athletics Namibia , and in December 2011 he succeeded Alberto Juantorena as Chairman of the Athletics Committee of the International Athletics Federation .

Corruption suspected

In early March 2017, it was revealed that a company Fredericks is at least associated with had received a referral on the day the Olympics were awarded to Rio de Janeiro. He then contacted the ICO's ethics committee . The Ethics Committee found itself unable to assess the allegations, citing the presumption of innocence, but recommended that Fredericks be suspended from various posts, including chairing the IOC Review Committee for the 2024 Games. In mid-July 2017, he was suspended by the IAAF Council, so that the ongoing investigation would have no possible consequences. He had already resigned from all his offices in March. In early November 2017, the IOC executive decided to exempt Fredericks from all rights, privileges and functions that he has as an IOC member.

As of March 2020, no decision has been made in the case.

Trivia

Fredericks is married to Jessica Fredericks, the sister of Nico Motchebon , and lives in both Namibia and Germany. In his hometown of Windhoek one of the main streets ("Frankie Fredericks Drive") is named after him.

Best times

100 meter times under 10 seconds time wind date place 9.86 −0.4 03rd July 1996 Lausanne 9.87 1.9 June 25, 1996 Helsinki 9.89 0.7 July 27, 1996 Atlanta 9.90 0.2 22 Aug 1997 Brussels 9.91 1.0 0July 2, 1997 Lausanne 9.93 1.1 July 26, 1996 Atlanta 9.93 0.5 0Aug 3, 1997 Athens 9.93 −0.4 June 17, 1998 Athens 9.94 −0.5 July 27, 1996 Atlanta 9.94 1.3 Feb. 20, 1999 Sydney 9.94 A −0.2 Apr 13, 2002 Windhoek 9.95 1.2 Aug 25, 1991 Tokyo 9.95 1.1 0June 3, 1996 Saint-Denis 9.95 0.7 June 29, 1997 Villeneuve d'Ascq 9.95 0.2 0Aug 3, 1997 Athens 9.95 0.2 0July 9, 1998 Oslo 9.96 A 0.4 27 Mar 1998 Johannesburg 9.96 −0.1 17 Sep 1998 Kuala Lumpur 9.97 1.2 19 Sep 1997 Kingston 9.97 2.0 June 17, 1998 Athens 9.97 0.0 July 14, 1998 Rome 9.97 0.1 Aug 19, 1998 Dakar 9.98 −0.7 Aug 13, 1997 Zurich 9.98 0.0 17 Sep 1998 Kuala Lumpur 9.99 1.0 May 25, 1996 Villeneuve d'Ascq 9.99 0.5 0Aug 2, 1997 Athens 9.99 0.3 Aug 26, 1997 Berlin

200 meter times under 20 seconds time wind date place 19.68 0.4 0Aug 1, 1996 Atlanta 19.81 0.3 13 Sep 1997 Fukuoka 19.82 1.1 05th July 1996 Oslo 19.85 0.3 Aug 20, 1993 Stuttgart 19.87 −1.2 0May 8, 1999 Osaka 19.90 0.4 May 10, 1997 Osaka 19.92 −0.2 23 Aug 1996 Brussels 19.92 1.6 Feb 25, 1999 Melbourne 19.93 A 0.0 Sep 24 1995 Johannesburg 19.93 0.7 July 13, 1997 Stuttgart 19.93 0.5 Aug 16, 1997 Monaco 19.93 0.2 0Aug 4, 1999 Monaco 19.95 −0.2 June 28, 1996 Paris 19.96 0.8 05th Sep 1993 Rieti 19.96 0.7 0June 5, 1996 Rome 19.96 2.0 June 12, 1996 Duisburg 19.97 −1.0 Aug 19, 1992 Zurich 19.97 A 1.8 July 31, 1994 Sestriere 19.97 1.5 Aug 26, 1994 Victoria 19.97 0.5 Aug 30, 1996 Berlin 19.97 A 1.3 13 Sep 1998 Johannesburg 19.98 0.1 0Aug 1, 1996 Atlanta 19.99 −0.9 22 Aug 1998 Dakar 19.99 0.6 July 12, 2002 Rome

Web links

Commons : Frank Fredericks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Frank Fredericks in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Frank Fredericks on the IOC website
• Frank Fredericks Foundation website
• Fredericks says goodbye - a career tribute , article by Bob Ramsak on the IAAF website, October 13, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beijing 2008: Fredericks in the IOC Athletes Commission , Si message on nzz.ch from August 6, 2008, accessed on June 3, 2014.
2. ↑ Mark Ouma: Frank Fredericks elected Athletics Namibia President on africanathletics.org on June 22, 2009, accessed on June 3, 2014 (English).
3. ↑ Mike Rowbottom: Coe and Bubka take up new IAAF posts on insidethegames.biz from December 20, 2011, accessed on June 3, 2014 (English).
4. ↑ Fredericks turns himself over to IOC ethics commission. The Namibian, March 3, 2017.
5. ↑ As with Fifa sueddeutsche.de March 8, 2017
6. ^ Frankie Fredericks under investigation for receiving £ 245,000 payment from disgraced IAAF official. The Telegraph, March 3, 2017.
7. ↑ DECISION OF RECOMMENDATION TO THE IOC EXECUTIVE BOARD Decision N ° 2017/1. Olympic Committee, March 7, 2017.
8. ^ IAAF suspends council member Fredericks. Spiegel Online, July 17, 2017.
9. ^ IOC suspends Frankie Fredericks , Scandal about Rio, on Leichtathletik.de from November 8, 2017, accessed November 8, 2017
10. ↑ Frank Fredericks case still unresolved. The Namibian, March 30, 2020.