Leroy Dixon
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| gold | 2007 Osaka | 4 × 100 m |
Leroy Dixon (born June 20, 1983 in South Bend , Indiana ) is an American athlete .
He celebrated the greatest success of his career so far as a member of the US 4 x 100 meter relay . At the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka , he won the gold medal with Darvis Patton , Wallace Spearmon and Tyson Gay in the world best time of 37.78 s before the relay from Jamaica and Great Britain .
At the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in 2008 , he reached the semi-finals in the 60-meter run . In the US Trials for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , he set a new personal best of 10.02 seconds in the quarter-finals. As the overall sixth of the trials, however, he finally missed qualifying for the Olympic team.
Leroy Dixon is 1.78 m tall and has a competition weight of 72 kg. He is trained by John Smith .
Top performances
open air
- 100 m : 10.02 s, June 28, 2008, Eugene
- 200 m : 20.44 s, June 25, 2006, Indianapolis
Hall
- 60 m: 6.56 s, February 24, 2008, Boston
- 200 m: 21.26 s, February 11, 2006, Fayetteville
Web links
- Leroy Dixon in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Leroy Dixon's athlete profile on the USATF website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dixon, Leroy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Bend , Indiana |