Jeremy Wariner

Jeremy Wariner
Wariner at the 2007 World Cup
Full name	Jeremy Mathew Wariner
nation	United States
birthday	January 31, 1984
place of birth	Irving
size	183 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	20.19 s ( 200 m ) 43.45 s ( 400 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 1 × 0 × World championships 5 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Athens 2004 400 m gold Athens 2004 4 × 400 m gold Beijing 2008 4 × 400 m silver Beijing 2008 400 m World championships gold Helsinki 2005 400 m gold Helsinki 2005 4 × 400 m gold Osaka 2007 400 m gold Osaka 2007 4 × 400 m silver Berlin 2009 400 m gold Berlin 2009 4 × 400 m
last change: August 22, 2012

Jeremy Mathew Wariner (born January 31, 1984 in Irving , Texas ) is a retired American track and field athlete . He became Olympic champion for the first time in 2004 and is multiple world champion in the 400-meter run and in the 4-by-400-meter relay .

Sports career

Wariner had his breakthrough in the US Trials 2004, the US athletics qualifying competition, when he won the 400 meters superior. Until the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where he was expected to win the gold medal on his special route, Wariner had never been to Europe before. With his final time of 44.00 s, which meant his personal best, he also joined the list of the fastest 400-meter runners of all time.

Also at the following world championships, Jeremy Wariner lived up to his role as favorite and won the gold medal over 400 meters in both 2005 and 2007. At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki he won a very fast final in a new personal best of 43.93 s. The other two medalists and the fourth-placed also all ran personal bests.

In the final of the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , Wariner was able to increase his personal best, which he only improved 24 days earlier, to 43.45 s, which was the fifth-best time ever over this route to date. Behind his two compatriots Michael Johnson and Harry "Butch" Reynolds, Wariner takes third place in the all-time world best list.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he won the silver medal in the 400-meter run behind his compatriot LaShawn Merritt . In the 4 x 400 meter relay race, Wariner won the Olympic gold medal with the US team. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, he lost to his compatriot LaShawn Merritt in the 400-meter final, as he had done a year earlier, and finished in silver with a gap of 54 hundredths of a second. However, together with Merritt, Angelo Taylor and Kerron Clement , he won the world title in the 4 x 400 meter relay in Berlin.

Wariner was nominated for the 4-by-400-meter relay of the 2012 Olympic Games , but suffered a muscular injury a few days before the competition and was unable to compete.

statistics

Personal bests

• 200 m: 20.19 s
• 400 m: 43.45 s

Most 400-meter runs under 44 seconds

rank	Track and field athlete	number
1.	Michael Johnson	22nd
2.	Jeremy Wariner	9
	LaShawn Merritt	9
4th	Kirani James	7th
5.	Wayde van Niekerk	6th
6th	Harry Reynolds	4th
	Quincy Watts	4th
	Isaac Makwala	4th
As of May 6, 2018

Fastest runs over 400 meters

time	date	place
43.45	Aug 31, 2007	Osaka ( World Cup 2007 )
43.50	0Aug 7, 2007	Stockholm ( DN Galan )
43.62	July 14, 2006	Rome ( Golden Gala )
43.91	0July 8, 2006	Saint-Denis
43.93	Aug 12, 2005	Helsinki ( World Cup 2005 )
43.98	0June 6, 2008	Oslo ( Bislett Games )
43.99	July 28, 2006	London

Compare with Michael Johnson

With his Olympic victory in 2004, Jeremy Wariner became the successor of the legendary Michael Johnson . However, his running style is completely different. The athletic Johnson walked with a short drumming step, Wariner, on the other hand, looks rather nimble. With a height of 1.83 m, he has a competition weight of 70 kg.

Web links

Commons : Jeremy Wariner  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wariner, Merritt out of US relay. Miami Herald, August 8, 2012, accessed August 22, 2012 .