Maurice Greene (athlete)

Maurice Greene
Greene at the 2000 Olympics
nation	United States
birthday	23rd July 1974
place of birth	Kansas City , United States
size	176 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	6.39 s ( 60 m ) 9.79 s ( 100 m ) 19.86 s ( 200 m )
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 1 × World championships 5 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Sydney 2000 100 m gold Sydney 2000 4 × 100 m silver Athens 2004 4 × 100 m bronze Athens 2004 100 m  World championships gold Athens 1997 100 m gold Seville 1999 100 m gold Seville 1999 200 m gold 1999 Seville 4 × 100 m gold Edmonton 2001 100 m  Indoor world championships gold Maebashi 1999 60 m

Maurice Greene (born July 23, 1974 in Kansas City , Kansas ) is a retired American athlete . He was twice Olympic champion and five times world champion. Until 2005 he was the world record holder in the 100 meter run .

Career

During his school days, Greene was both an athlete and American football player. But it soon became apparent that his performance in the sprint was better.

In 1995 Greene first took part in a major international competition, the World Championships in Gothenburg ; However, he did not get there in the 100-meter run beyond the quarter-finals. His next season was also disappointing: he failed to qualify for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. However, he did not miss the opportunity to watch the Olympic final live from the audience. This gave him impetus for the further course of his career.

In 1997, however, the breakthrough finally came. At the World Championships in Athens , he won the 100-meter race. In the following years he dominated this discipline and defended his world title in 1999 and 2001. In 1998 he also set a new world record in the 60-meter run (6.39 s) in Madrid , which he confirmed again in 2001 in Atlanta with the same time. In 1999 he equalized Donovan Bailey's 50-meter world record with 5.56 s. At the 1999 World Championships , he not only defended his 100 meter title, but also won the 200 meter race . He was the first to win both sprint distances at world championships. On June 16, 1999, he set another world record at a meeting in Athens ; he ran the 100 meters in 9.79 s.

Greene's most important achievement so far was winning the 100-meter race at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2002 Greene lost his world record to his compatriot Tim Montgomery , who undercut the old record by a hundredth of a second. Greene was injured at the time and had to watch the race from the stands. Montgomery's time was deleted from the results lists, however, as he was suspended for doping abuse. Greene thus held the world record from 1999 to 2005, when Asafa Powell set a new record. At the 2001 World Championships , he defended his title over 100 meters.

Greene's main goal was to defend the Sydney Olympic gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games . He wanted to repeat the performance of Carl Lewis from 1984 and 1988. However, this did not succeed. He still won the bronze medal. In 2005, at the World Championships in Helsinki , he was only used in the 4 x 100 meter relay because he was injured in the US trials and so could not qualify for the 100 meters. However, it did not start in the final because the US relay was disqualified in the semifinals.

On February 4, 2008, Greene announced his retirement as a track and field athlete, as he no longer had the mental strength to return after his many injuries.

In April 2008, the New York Times reported that Greene had given Mexican Angel Guillermo Heredia $ 10,000 for doping drugs. Greene admitted the payment but claims he paid for other members of his training group. Heredia accuses Greene, the US judiciary's key witness, of providing Greene with the doping agents IGF-1 , IGF-2 , EPO and ATP . Greene, who was not convicted of doping by the courts, was a member of John Smith's training group, like other doping offenders who were caught .

Maurice Greene is 1.76 m tall and has a competition weight of 80 kg.

statistics

100 meter times under 10 seconds Time (s) wind date place 9.79 0.1 June 16, 1999 Athens 9.80 0.2 22 Aug 1999 Seville 9.82 −0.2 0Aug 5, 2001 Edmonton 9.85 0.8 0July 7, 1999 Rome 9.86 0.2 0Aug 3, 1997 Athens 9.86 −0.2 0Sep 1 2000 Berlin 9.87 0.6 July 30, 1999 Stockholm 9.87 −0.3 23 Sep 2000 Sydney 9.87 0.6 22 Aug 2004 Athens 9.89 0.9 July 12, 2002 Rome 9.90 0.2 June 13, 1997 Indianapolis 9.90 1.0 0July 2, 1997 Lausanne 9.90 1.3 0Aug 2, 1997 Athens 9.90 0.5 0Aug 3, 1997 Athens 9.90 0.3 0Aug 5, 1998 Stockholm 9.90 0.3 June 21, 2001 Eugene 9.90 1.1 04th July 2001 Lausanne 9.91 −0.2 Aug 21, 1999 Seville 9.91 −0.4 May 13, 2000 Osaka 9.91 −0.3 June 11, 2001 Athens 9.91 0.0 July 11, 2004 Sacramento 9.92 0.2 22 Aug 1997 Brussels 9.92 −0.3 Aug 25, 1998 Lausanne 9.93 0.4 0July 2, 1999 Lausanne 9.93 0.3 July 14, 2000 Sacramento 9.93 1.8 June 19, 2004 Eugene 9.93 −0.2 Aug 21, 2004 Athens 9.94 −0.3 Aug 28, 1998 Brussels 9.94 0.1 0Sep 1 1998 Berlin 9.94 −1.0 Aug 11, 2000 Zurich 9.94 1.4 0June 1, 2003 Carson 9.94 −0.5 0Aug 6, 2004 Zurich 9.96 1.5 June 12, 1997 Indianapolis 9.96 0.6 June 19, 1998 New Orleans 9.96 0.2 0July 9, 1998 Oslo 9.96 −1.0 July 21, 1998 Hempstead (New York) 9.96 −0.7 22 Aug 1999 Seville 9.96 −0.1 May 12, 2001 Osaka 9.96 −0.4 0July 6, 2001 Saint-Denis 9.97 −0.6 0Aug 7, 1999 London 9.97 0.7 June 30, 2000 Rome 9.97 −0.2 June 10, 2002 Athens 9.97 0.1 July 19, 2002 Monaco 9.97 −0.3 July 30, 2004 London 9.97 0.2 22 Aug 2004 Athens 9.98 −0.8 July 22, 2001 London 9.98 −0.2 July 30, 2004 London 9.99 −0.7 Aug 13, 1997 Zurich 9.99 −0.5 Feb 28, 1998 Sydney 9.99 −0.7 Aug 11, 1999 Zurich 9.99 0.7 June 21, 2002 Palo Alto 9.99 0.4 0July 5, 2002 Saint-Denis		Best times discipline Time (s) wind date place 50 m 5.56 ( WR ) - Feb 13, 1999 los Angeles 60 m 6.39 - 0Feb 3, 1998 Madrid 03rd Mar 2001 Atlanta 100 m 9.79 0.1 June 16, 1999 Athens 200 m 19.86 1.6 0July 7, 1997 Stockholm

Web links

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

Footnotes

1. ^ The press : Ex-sprint world record holder Maurice Greene resigned , February 4, 2008
2. ^ IAAF Seeks an Explanation From Greene About Drug Allegations , April 17, 2008
3. ↑ SPIEGEL : The dealer Olympias | part 3