Justin Gatlin

Justin Gatlin
Justin Gatlin at the 2016 Olympics
nation	United States
birthday	10th February 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	New York City , United States
size	185 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.74 s ( 100 m ) 19.57 s ( 200 m )
Trainer	Brooks Johnson vorm. Dennis Mitchell , Trevor Graham
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 2 × 2 × World championships 4 × 5 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 2 × 0 × 0 × World Relays 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Athens 2004 100 m silver Athens 2004 4 × 100 m bronze Athens 2004 200 m bronze London 2012 100 m silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 100 m  World championships gold Helsinki 2005 100 m gold Helsinki 2005 200 m silver Moscow 2013 100 m silver Moscow 2013 4 × 100 m silver Beijing 2015 100 m silver Beijing 2015 200 m gold London 2017 100 m silver London 2017 4 × 100 m silver Doha 2019 100 m gold Doha 2019 4 × 100 m  Indoor world championships gold Birmingham 2003 60 m gold Istanbul 2012 60 m  IAAF World Relays gold 2015 Nassau 4 × 100 m gold 2017 Nassau 4 × 100 m silver 2019 Yokohama 4 × 100 m
last change: December 11, 2019

Justin Gatlin (born February 10, 1982 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American athlete . Gatlin is Olympic champion over 100 meters and world champion over 100 and 200 meters , as well as a former world record holder over 100 meters (9.77 s). Since 2001 he has been convicted of doping several times, for which he was banned from competition for eight years until 2014. At the beginning of 2008, an arbitration tribunal halved the original eight-year ban with a 2-1 judge's vote, and the ban has been lifted since August 2010.

Sports career

Justin Gatlin has been known in the international sprint scene since 2003. He ran over 100 meters at the Weltklasse Zürich 2003 meeting for 9.97 seconds. When he qualified for the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 at the US Trials in Sacramento over 100 meters , he was not one of the favorites for the gold medal. So it was a surprise when he became Olympic champion over 100 meters in Athens in 9.85 s. He himself says that his favorite route is the 200 meters. In the final over 200 meters in Athens, however, he had to admit defeat to his training colleagues Shawn Crawford and Bernard Williams and be satisfied with the bronze medal.

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 he was world champion in the 100-meter run ahead of Michael Frater and Kim Collins with a time of 9.88 s and a clear lead . The only downer was that he could not compete in this final with the world record holder Asafa Powell , who had to cancel the world championship due to injury. A few days later, he was also world champion in the 200-meter course in 20.04 s, ahead of his US compatriots Wallace Spearmon and John Capel . At the IAAF Super Tour in Doha on May 12, 2006, Justin Gatlin ran the 100 meters in 9.766 s, which were later rounded up to 9.77 s, thus setting Asafa Powell's world record. Powell improved this again on September 9, 2007 to 9.74 s. In July 2006 it became public that Gatlin had tested positive for testosterone . The samples were from April 22nd. All subsequent results were retrospectively canceled, including the 9.77 s run.

On his comeback after his doping ban, Gatlin won the 100 meters in 10.24 s on August 3, 2010 in Rakvera, Estonia. He was now aiming to return to the world's elite. In 2011 he reported back with two 100-meter runs under ten seconds and qualified over this distance for the World Championships in Daegu , where he was eliminated in the semi-finals. In 2012 he won gold over 60 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul . In the same year he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in the 100-meter sprint in London with a new personal best of 9.79 s . The silver medal that Gatlin had won the sprint relay, was established in May 2015 by the IOC stripped after his squadron colleagues Tyson Gay anabolic steroids had been detected.

After he had already beaten the dominant constant of the sprint world Usain Bolt in Rome in June 2013 , he was considered the biggest competitor for Bolt and after Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell waived a World Cup participation due to positive doping tests and the injury-related cancellation of Yohan Blake Medal contender for the World Championships in Moscow . There he lived up to expectations and won the silver medal over the 100-meter distance and with the US relay.

Gatlin also won the silver medal and the associated second place behind Usain Bolt in the 100-meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Over 200 meters, he surprisingly missed the final as ninth fastest in 20.13 s.

Gatlin 2009

doping

On July 29, 2006, Gatlin himself announced a positive A-test for testosterone . The positive doping result was found in a relay race on April 22, 2006 in Kansas . The A sample was confirmed by the B sample. Gatlin had tested positive for amphetamines during the 2001 Junior National Championships . The then imposed two-year ban on competitions was subsequently reduced to one year by the IAAF, the World Athletics Federation, because it had claimed that taking medication to treat an attention deficit as a child had caused the positive test result. Thus, as a repeat offender, he would have been threatened with a lifelong ban. However, he agreed with the United States Anti-Doping Agency to help clarify the case and, in particular, to testify as a key witness against his coach Trevor Graham , who had long been considered suspicious , whereupon the ban on August 22, 2006 for eight years (up to and including 24 July 2014) was reduced. In addition, all of Gatlin's competition results since the positive doping test have been canceled, so that he also lost the world record over 100 meters. Before an American Arbitration Association arbitration tribunal , Gatlin obtained a halving of his suspension from competition to four years until July 2010.

At the end of December 2017, the US anti-doping agency USADA as well as the independent integrity commission (AIU) of the IAAF athletics association started investigations against Gatlin and his trainer Dennis Mitchell and the advisor Robert Wagner after the British newspaper The Telegraph published its own undercover investigations would have. Gatlin then fired Dennis Mitchell and hired Brooks Johnson , who had already coached him from 2010 to 2011. A sanction or allegation against Gatlin has not been made by the authorities since then.

statistics

Personal best

Event	Time (s)	place	date
50 meters	5.71	new York	January 28, 2012
60 meters	6.45	Boston	March 1, 2003
100 meters	9.74	Doha	May 15, 2015
200 metres	19.57	Eugene	June 28, 2015

Web links

Commons : Justin Gatlin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Justin Gatlin in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Justin Gatlin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gatlin still going strong with new coach at age of 36. Associated Press , April 13, 2018, accessed May 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Iaaf.org: list of banned athletes
3. ↑ Gatlin's time corrected to 9.77 - equals 100m World Record. IAAF , May 17, 2006, accessed May 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Justin Gatlin wins comeback
5. ↑ USA men's 4 x 100m relay team disqualified from the 2012 London Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee , May 20, 2015, accessed April 22, 2018 . 
6. ↑ USATF: Doping Disqualifications and Public Warnings , November 18, 2005
7. ^ Arbitration Panel Suspends Gatlin for Four Years. USADA , January 1, 2008, accessed May 12, 2018 . 
8. ^ Claire Newell, Hayley Dixon, Daniel Foggo, Callum Adams, Luke Heighton: World 100m champion Justin Gatlin embroiled in new doping scandal. The Telegraph , December 19, 2017, accessed April 23, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Investigation initiated, Justin Gatlin denies new doping allegations , on: Leichtathletik.de, December 19, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017
10. ^ Gene Cherry: Coaching change tough on Gatlin, new trainer says. Reuters , January 19, 2018, accessed April 23, 2019 .