Gwen Torrence

Gwen Torrence
Full name	Gwendolyn Lenna Torrence
nation	United States
birthday	June 12, 1965
place of birth	Decatur
size	170 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.82 s ( 100 m ) 21.72 s ( 200 m ) 49.64 s ( 400 m )
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 1 × 1 × World championships 3 × 4 × 1 × Panamerica. Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Barcelona 1992 200 m gold Barcelona 1992 4 × 100 m silver Barcelona 1992 4 × 400 m gold Atlanta 1996 4 × 100 m bronze Atlanta 1996 100 m  World championships silver Tokyo 1991 100 m silver Tokyo 1991 200 m gold Stuttgart 1993 4 × 400 m silver Stuttgart 1993 200 m silver Stuttgart 1993 4 × 100 m bronze Stuttgart 1993 100 m gold Gothenburg 1995 100 m gold Gothenburg 1995 4 × 100 m  Pan American Games gold Indianapolis 1987 200 m

Gwendolyn ("Gwen") Lenna Torrence (born June 12, 1965 in Decatur , Georgia ) is an American athlete and Olympic champion .

Career

Torrence was born in Decatur, Georgia, attended Columbia High School and then the University of Georgia . During her career, she has won medals in all major sporting events, such as World Championships, the Pan American Games , the Goodwill Games , the Universiade and the Olympic Games.

At the XXV. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona she won gold in the 200-meter run in front of the two Jamaicans Juliet Cuthbert (silver) and Merlene Ottey (bronze), a team gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay with her teammates Evelyn Ashford , Esther Jones and Carlette Guidry as well as a team silver medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay with their teammates Natasha Kaiser , Jearl Miles and Rochelle Stevens .

At the XXVI. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , she was able to build on her successes from 1992 and won bronze in the 100-meter run behind the American Gail Devers (gold) and the Jamaican Merlene Ottey (silver). She also won a team gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay with her teammates Gail Devers, Inger Miller and Chryste Gaines .

After the national indoor championships in 1997, where she won the silver medal over 60 meters, she withdrew from active sport. Since then she has been working as a hairdresser. Torrence is married with two children.

Awards

• 1995: World Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport )

Web links

• Gwen Torrence in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Gwen Torrence in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Georgia Sports Hall of Fame (English; PDF; 148 kB)