Michael Marsh

Mike Marsh
Full name	Michael Lawrence Marsh
nation	United States
birthday	4th August 1967
place of birth	los Angeles
size	178 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	9.93 s ( 100 m ) / 19.73 s ( 200 m )
society	Santa Monica Track Club
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Barcelona 1992 200 m gold Barcelona 1992 4 × 100 m silver Atlanta 1996 4 × 100 m  World championships gold Tokyo 1991 4 × 100 m

Michael Lawrence "Mike" Marsh (born August 4, 1967 in Los Angeles ) is a former American athlete and Olympic champion .

Marsh attended the High School in Hawthorne , California , and began there with his running training. He then went to the University of California in Los Angeles and continued his training there. During his college days, his greatest achievement was a third place finish in the NCAA championships.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​he won the gold medal in the 200-meter run in front of Namibian Frank Fredericks and his compatriot Michael Bates . In the semifinals, he missed Pietro Mennea's world record by a hundredth of a second with 19.73 s because he did not go through fully in view of his clear lead. He also won gold with the 4 x 100 meter relay , together with Leroy Burrell , Dennis Mitchell and Carl Lewis , ahead of the teams from Nigeria and Cuba .

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he won the silver medal in the 4-by-100-meter relay together with Jon Drummond , Tim Harden and Dennis Mitchell, behind the team from Canada and in front of the team from Brazil .

He reached the final three times at world championships: in 1993 in Stuttgart he was fourth over 200 meters, in 1995 in Gothenburg fifth over 100 meters and in 1997 in Athens eighth over 100 meters.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 9.93 s, April 18, 1992, Walnut
• 200 m: 19.73 s, 5th August 1992, Barcelona

Web links

• Michael Marsh in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Michael Marsh in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field