Jon Drummond

Jon Drummond
Full name	Jonathan Drummond
nation	United States
birthday	September 9, 1968
place of birth	Philadelphia
size	175 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.92 s ( 100 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Atlanta 1996 4 × 100 m gold Sydney 2000 4 × 100 m  World championships gold Stuttgart 1993 4 × 100 m gold Seville 1999 4 × 100 m  Universiade gold Sheffield 1991 200 m

Jonathan ("Jon") Drummond (born September 9, 1968 in Philadelphia ) is a former American track and field athlete and today's sprint coach.

Jon Drummond was one of the world's best 100-meter and 200-meter runners , known for his particularly good start reaction. He was popular with the audience because of his funny nature and funny demeanor.

At the World Athletics Championships in 1993 in Stuttgart, he was the starting runner of the American 4 x 100 meter relay , which won the world title and equalized the world record with 37.40 s. At the next World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 , he could not hand over the baton to Tony McCall as the second runner and the American relay was disqualified. In the following years he continued to cause a sensation as a relay runner. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he was one of the quartet that won the silver medal. Solo over 100 meters, he only made it to the semi-finals.

At the 1999 World Championships , he was unable to take part in the individual runs due to illness, but was again the relay world champion as a starting runner. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he was fifth in the 100 meters and won his first Olympic gold medal as the starting runner of the US relay.

He caused a stir when he was disqualified in the quarter-finals of the 2003 World Championships in Paris due to his false start. He did not want to accept the jury's decision and lay down in front of the starting blocks for 45 minutes until he finally left the stadium with tears in his eyes. This should have been the last international appearance for the 34-year-old athlete. He was no longer nominated for the season by the US Association after this affair.

After his playing career, he coached Tyson Gay . After Gay was convicted of doping , he incriminated Drummond. In 2014, Drummond was banned for eight years for violating doping rules. He is not allowed to train or advise athletes during this time.

Awards

• 1993: " World Team of the Year " - 4 x 100 meter relay with Andre Cason , Dennis Mitchell and Leroy Burrell ( La Gazzetta dello Sport )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tyson Gay's former coach Jon Drummond banned for eight years BBC December 17, 2014