Marc Burns

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Marc Burns (right) at the 2009 World Championships

Marc Burns (born January 7, 1983 in Port of Spain ) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago . He is a multiple medalist with the 4 x 100 meter relay at World Championships and Olympic Games.

Even as a junior, he concentrated on the 100-meter run . At the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Chile in 2000 he won the bronze medal, two years later he secured the silver medal at the same event in Kingston , and in 2001 he was the Pan-American junior champion over this distance.

At his first World Championships in Edmonton in 2001 , Burns finished third with the 4 x 100 meter relay, which years later was converted to silver after the victorious US team was subsequently disqualified. At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis Burns started over 100 m, but was eliminated in the preliminary run. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he reached seventh place with the relay.

In 2005 Burns managed to explode his performance. On June 25, 2005, he improved his personal best by 16 hundredths of a second to 9.96 s. At the World Championships in Helsinki he advanced to the final and reached seventh place with a time of 10.14 s. On the penultimate day of the competition, he won the silver medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay of his country.

Burns (left) with the 2012 bronze relay

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, he won the bronze medal, at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he was eighth. 2008 won Burns at the Olympic Games in Beijing with the relay gold medal in the individual he was seventh. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, he again reached seventh place and won the silver medal with the relay.

In 2011 Burns was sixth at the World Championships in Daegu with the season. In Istanbul he started at the World Indoor Championships in 2012 over 60 meters and finished fifth. At the Olympic Games in London he won the bronze medal with the relay. Due to a positive doping test at Tyson Gay , the relay was subsequently awarded the silver medal in May 2015.

Marc Burns has a competition weight of 77 kg with a height of 1.85 m. From 2002 to 2005 he was champion in his home country four times in a row.

Personal bests

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US season loses silver medal , sport1.de from May 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Burns, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Port of Spain