Inger Miller

Inger Miller

nation

United States

birthday

12th June 1972 (age 48)

place of birth

Los Angeles , United States

size

163 cm

Weight

55 kg

Career

discipline

sprint

Best performance

10.79 s ( 100 m )
21.77 s ( 200 m )

status

resigned

Medal table

Olympic games	1 ×	0 ×	0 ×
World championships	2 ×	2 ×	0 ×

Olympic games
gold	Atlanta 1996	4 × 100 m
World championships
gold	Athens 1997	4 × 100 m
gold	Seville 1999	200 m
silver	Seville 1999	100 m
silver	Paris 2003	4 × 100 m

Inger Miller (born June 12, 1972 in Los Angeles , California ) is a former American sprinter who was one of the fastest short distance athletes in the world.

Miller currently resides in Van Nuys , California.

She attended Muir High School, California, from 1990 to 1994, and then College Southern California . Miller began her athletic career in 1988 when she was third in the 200-meter run in her high school's youth competitions.

The American world-class sprinter (1.63 m tall and weighing approx. 55 kg) was one of the world's best sprinters of the 1990s. Her specialty disciplines are the 100 and 200 meters. In 1999 she became world champion in the 200 meter discipline. In the 4 x 100 meter competition , she won Olympic gold in 1996 and a year later with the relay also gold at the world championships .

At the World Indoor Championships in 1999 , she won bronze over 60 meters. During the doping control , however, the caffeine level was too high . The medal was revoked and a warning was given.

Her last successes so far were in 2003 the second place at the World Championships with the 4 x 100 meter relay in Paris / Saint-Denis and in July 2004 at the US championships in the 200 meter discipline.

On April 9, 2005 she won first place at the Texas Relays in Austin in the US women's season together with Angela Daigle , Lauryn Williams and LaTasha Colander with a time of 43.36 s.

Your two most important caregivers in sports are your trainer John Smith and your manager Emanuel Hudson. She is currently training in her sports club "Nike" in California. Her father Lennox Miller was also a well-known Jamaican athlete and second in the 100-meter final at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City .