Kerron Clement

Kerron Clement
Kerron Clement at the 2016 Olympics
nation	United States
birthday	October 31, 1985
place of birth	Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago
size	188 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	47.24 m ( 400 meter hurdles )
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 0 × World championships 4 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Beijing 2008 4 × 400 m silver Beijing 2008 400 m hurdles gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 400 m hurdles World championships gold Osaka 2007 400 m hurdles gold Osaka 2007 4 × 400 m gold Berlin 2009 400 m hurdles gold Berlin 2009 4 × 400 m bronze London 2017 400 m hurdles
last change: August 11, 2017

Kerron Stephon Clement (born October 31, 1985 in Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago ) is an American hurdler and sprinter .

Sports career

Clement immigrated to the United States as a teenager and attended high school in La Porte, Texas . He then studied at the University of Florida .

In March 2005, Clement set an indoor world record in the 400-meter run in Fayetteville with 44.57 s . He undercut the old world record set by Michael Johnson on March 4, 1995 by six hundredths of a second.

Since 2005, Clement has been a world leader in the 400 meter hurdles . At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , he was one of the biggest favorites for the title alongside James Carter and Félix Sánchez . However, he wasted away the semifinals and was therefore placed on hole 1, which is unfavorable for the hurdles. Since it was still raining heavily in the final, he had no chance of winning this run. Ultimately, he finished fourth in 48.18 s.

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , he won the gold medal over the 400 meter hurdles ahead of Félix Sánchez and Marek Plawgo with a time of 47.61 s .

Clement won his first Olympic medal (silver) at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 . In the final of the 400 meter hurdles he only had to admit defeat to his compatriot Angelo Taylor .

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , he was able to defend his world champion title. He won the final with a world best time of 47.91 s ahead of Javier Culson in 48.09 s and Bershawn Jackson in 48.23 s. In addition, Clement won another gold medal at the World Championships in Berlin with the 4 x 400 meter relay of the USA.

In 2015 he qualified for the world championships for the sixth time in a row. There he only missed the podium by a hundredth of a second and had to be content with fourth place despite a season best of 48.18 s.

At the 2016 Olympic Games , he won the gold medal with his fastest time since 2007 (47.73 s) ahead of Boniface Mucheru Tumuti and Yasmani Copello .

Others

Kerron Clement has a competition weight of 84 kg with a height of 1.88 m.

Personal bests

• 100 m : 10.23 s, April 14, 2007, Coral Gables
• 200 m : 20.49 s, April 14, 2007, Coral Gables
• 400 m: 44.48 s, August 7, 2007, Stockholm
• 110 m hurdles : 13.77 s, August 28, 2002, Omaha
• 400m hurdles: 47.24s, June 26, 2005, Carson

Private

In October 2019, Clement came out as homosexual.

Web links

Commons : Kerron Clement  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kerron Clement in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kerron Clement in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait on USA Track & Field

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outsports.com: Olympic champion Kerron Clement comes out on National Coming Out Day , accessed October 11, 2019