Trell Kimmons

Trell Kimmons

Kimmons at the 2010 World Indoor Championships

nation

United States

birthday

July 13, 1985

place of birth

Coldwater, USA

size

1.75 cm

Weight

84 kg

Career

discipline

100 m , 4 × 100 m

Trainer

Reggie Dillon

status

active

Medal table

Junior World Championship

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Junior World Championships
gold	2004 Grosseto	4 × 100 m

last change: August 12, 2012

Trell Kimmons (born July 13, 1985 in Coldwater , Mississippi ) is an American sprinter .

Career

Kimmons (left) at the 2012 London Olympics

In 2004 he started in the professional field for the first time and set his first best performance with 10.39 seconds. At the Junior World Championships, he won the gold medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay. The next year he also ran the 200-meter distance.

In 2010 he ran at the World Indoor Championships in Doha at 60 meters with 6.59 s in fourth place, two years later he also finished fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul . Before that, he had set his new personal best in February with 6.45 s at 100 meters and at the same time also set the world best time for the year.

At the Olympic Games in London he won the 4 x 100 meter relay competition together with Justin Gatlin , Tyson Gay and Ryan Bailey silver, with 37.04 they set a new national record at the same time. Due to a positive doping test Gays them was the medal again in May 2015 revoked . In September 2016, Kimmons himself tested positive and banned for two years for doping.

statistics

Personal best

discipline	Time (s)	place	date
50 m	5.68	New York , USA	January 28, 2012
60 m	6.45	Albuquerque	February 26, 2012
100 m	9.95	Zurich	August 19, 2010
200 m	20.37	Eugene	June 28, 2009

Web links

Trell Kimmons in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

↑ USA men's 4 × 100m relay team disqualified from the 2012 London Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee , May 20, 2015, accessed April 22, 2018 .
↑ US sprinter Kimmons banned for two years for doping. Südwest Presse , September 27, 2016, accessed on September 28, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kimmons, Trell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coldwater , Mississippi

[1] USA men's 4 × 100m relay team disqualified from the 2012 London Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee , May 20, 2015, accessed April 22, 2018 .

[2] US sprinter Kimmons banned for two years for doping. Südwest Presse , September 27, 2016, accessed on September 28, 2016 .