Tyson Gay

Tyson Gay
Tyson Gay at the World Championships in Berlin 2009
nation	United States
birthday	9th August 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Lexington ,  United States
size	180 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m , 4 × 100 m
Trainer	John Smith
status	active
Medal table
World championships 3 × 1 × 0 × World Relays 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold 2007 Osaka 100 m gold 2007 Osaka 200 m gold 2007 Osaka 4 × 100 m silver 2009 Berlin 100 m  IAAF World Relays gold 2015 Nassau 4 × 100 m
last change: August 28, 2018

Tyson Gay (born August 9, 1982 in Lexington , Kentucky ) is an American athlete . The US sprinter was world champion over 100 meters , 200 meters and with the relay over 4 x 100 meters and in 2009 vice world champion over 100 meters. Gay is also the second fastest runner in history with his best time over the 100 meters (9.69 s) next to Yohan Blake and the fifth fastest over the 200 meters with 19.58 s.

In 2013 he was convicted of taking anabolic steroids and banned from competitions for a year. Due to the resulting cancellation of his results since July 15, 2012. it was established in May 2015, his Olympic silver medal, which he in 2012 had won together with the 4-by-100-meter relay, revoked .

Career

Gay had his international breakthrough in 2005. At the US Championships in 2005, he finished second over 200 meters and qualified for the World Championships in Helsinki . There he was fourth in the final behind the winner Justin Gatlin and two other Americans. For the USA , taking the top four places meant a result that had never been seen before in the history of the World Championships .

He set another milestone when he ran the third fastest time ever over 200 meters at the IAAF World Finals in Stuttgart on September 10, 2006 with 19.68 seconds. Just some time before, Gay had already set a new personal best over 100 meters. It ran on August 18, 2006 in Zurich for 9.84 seconds. In the same run, Jamaican Asafa Powell equalized his own world record of 9.77 s.

2007

Tyson Gay won the 2007 World Championships

Gay also got off to an impressive start in the 2007 athletics season. At the start of the season in Kingston on May 5, 2007, Gay ran over 200 meters for 19.97 seconds with a headwind of 0.5 meters per second. In a 100-meter run in Carson on May 20, 2007 Gay stayed with a time of 9.79 s only two hundredths above the current world record, but with an impermissible tail wind of 2.5 meters per second, which is why it was not a new personal best . At the Grand Prix Meeting in New York City on June 2, 2007, Gay almost caused a sensation when he set a new 100-meter world record with a time of 9.76 seconds. But here, too, the tail wind was 0.2 meters per second above the permitted maximum.

On June 22, 2007 Gay won the 100-meter run at the US Championships in Indianapolis . He equalized his own best performance of 9.84 s with a headwind of 0.5 meters per second. Just two days later, on June 24, 2007, Gay also became the US 200 meter champion. He won with a new personal best of 19.62 s at 0.3 meters per second headwind. It was the second fastest time ever run over the 200 meters. At the World Championships in Osaka , Gay won the 100 meter title in a time of 9.85 s and relegated Derrick Atkins ( Bahamas ) and the Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell to the rear. In the 200-meter run Tyson Gay won with a new championship record in 19.76 s and thus crowned his appearance at the world championships. In addition, Gay won a third gold medal in the title fights in Osaka with the 4 x 100 meter relay. For these successes, Gay was named World Athlete of the Year 2007 by the IAAF.

2008

In the 2008 Olympic year, the season for Tyson Gay started with a high point. In New York City at the Reebok Grand Prix on May 31, 2008 Gay competed against Usain Bolt over the 100 meters. Bolt previously attracted attention with the second-fastest ever run time of 9.76 s. Gay lost to the young Jamaican in a spectacular 100-meter run, at the end of which Bolt made himself the new world record holder over this distance. With optimal weather conditions and a tail wind of 1.7 meters per second, Gay stayed with 9.85 s behind Bolt, who ran 9.72 s.

In a quarter-final race of the US eliminations for the Olympic Games in Eugene on June 28, 2008, Gay improved the old US record and former world record of Maurice Greene by two hundredths of a second. Gay ran a time of 9.77 s with a regular tail wind of 1.6 meters per second and thus stayed below 9.8 seconds for the first time. This makes him the second fastest 100-meter runner in history behind Bolt. One day later in the final run, Gay ran the fastest time ever. With an irregular tail wind of 4.1 meters per second, he achieved a time of 9.68 s and thus remained a hundredth of a second below the old "record" for irregular times achieved by Obadele Thompson .

In the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, Gay injured himself in the elimination race over the 200 meters, so that he could not compete in Beijing over this distance. There was also no big showdown between Gay and Bolt over the 100 meters, as Gay, who had arrived rather poorly due to the injury, was eliminated early in the semifinals.

2009

The big clash was to follow a year later at the World Championships in Berlin. In the run-up, Gay was considered the only real challenger by Bolt. Gay more than lived up to this serious competitive role by setting a world annual high of 9.77 seconds at the Golden Gala in Rome on July 10th. Gay was also able to set a personal best over the 200 meter distance when he set the third fastest ever run time of 19.58 s at the RBK Grand Prix in New York. However, in the 100 meter final at the World Championships in Berlin, Gay was unable to defeat the overwhelming Usain Bolt, although he achieved a time of 9.71 seconds that would have been a world record just under a year earlier, as he set the world record 9 , 58s improved.

2010

In 2010, he improved his personal record in the 400-meter run to 44.89 s, becoming the first athlete in history to stay over 100 meters under 10 seconds, over 200 meters under 20 seconds and over 400 meters under 45 seconds.

2011

On June 4, 2011 Gay won a 100-meter race in Clermont (Florida) with a time of 9.79 s and thus took the lead in the world's annual best list. However, he could not qualify for a single start at the World Championships in Daegu three weeks later in Eugene in the US elimination competitions due to injury . A possible participation in the 4 x 100 meter relay, he initially kept open, although he was of the opinion that he did not deserve it. On July 8th, Gay announced the premature end of the season after a hip operation. The arthroscopy was done July 5 in Vali, Colorado.

2012

Gay (second from right) at the 2012 Olympics after relay silver

In March 2012, he started to train again for the first time after his groin and tendon problems, but also said that he was only concentrating on qualifying over the 100 meters and not the 200 meters for the 2012 Olympics . On June 9, he then competed in the first competition after his injury: he won the B run of the Adidas Grand Prix in New York with 10.00 seconds. On June 24th, he finished second at the US Trials, securing participation in the London Olympics. With 9.86 s it also ran its fastest time in over a year.

At the Diamond League meeting in Paris he won ahead of Justin Gatlin in 9.99 seconds. At the Olympic Games in London he missed a medal in fourth with 9.80 s and was only a hundredth of a second behind his compatriot Gatlin. At the two Diamond League meetings in Lausanne and Birmingham, he crossed the finish line in second place, on August 23 with 9.83 s over 100 meters and three days later for the first time since his injury over 200 meters. With 20.21 s, however, he stayed well above his top times.

2013 doping ban

In the new 2013 season he showed good early form at the beginning. In his first race, the Jamaica Invitational , he won with 9.86 seconds ahead of Nesta Carter and Darvis Patton . He also won his second 100-meter race. In New York he secured the prize money with 10.02 seconds in a headwind. At the end of June, the US championships were due, which were mainly about qualifying for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow . With two world bests of the year of 9.75 s and 19.74 s, he secured first place over 100 and 200 meters. On July 4, he won his next Diamond League race with 9.79 seconds at the Lausanne Athletissima with another strong time.

On July 14, 2013, the French sports daily L'Équipe reported that an A sample from Gay tested positive for an undisclosed doping compound. Gay confirmed this on the same day and announced that he would not participate in the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. He also announced that he would apply for the B-sample to be opened, which later confirmed the positive result. The samples came from a training control on May 16. After it had long been unclear which prohibited substance had been detected in Gay, the US doping authority USADA announced at the end of July that an anabolic steroid had been found in the sample.

Gay said he had put his trust in someone and was disappointed, and ruled out any sabotage. His trainer Jon Drummond was later incriminated by him and banned for eight years for violating doping regulations. He is not allowed to train or advise athletes during this time. On July 15, 2013, his supplier Adidas terminated the joint contract with immediate effect.

It was not until May 2014 that the USADA issued the final verdict in the form of a one-year ban, which will apply retrospectively from June 23, 2013. The comparatively short exclusion from competition was justified with good cooperation between gays. However, all competition results since July 15, 2012 have been canceled. By this time he is said to have started taking the banned steroid. The deleted results include victories at Diamond League meetings , the US championships and the results at the Olympic Games in London in 2012. There he came fourth in the 100 meter final and won the silver medal together with the relay team, which he now had to give up. The IOC decided in May 2015 that his fellow squadrons Trell Kimmons , Justin Gatlin and Ryan Bailey also lose their medals. Gay also had to repay $ 500,000 in prize money received from a total of six meetings.

The announcement of gay positive doping tests coincided with that of Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell . Since both were considered to be permanent fixtures in the athletics world, the sport's credibility was badly damaged. Athletes like the German pole vaulter Holzdeppe demanded life-long bans and the German sprint legend Armin Hary even spoke of the cancellation of all sprint world records.

Comeback 2014

On July 3, 2014, he started again for the first time since his suspension. In Lausanne he ran the 100 meters in 9.93 s, which made him the fifth fastest sprinter of the year. The rest of the season was rather disappointing, however, with no runs below the 10-second mark, and at his start over 200 meters in Monaco, he did not get past 20.22 seconds and a fourth place.

Others

Tyson Gay is 1.80 m tall and weighs 75 kg. He is coached by Lance Brauman, who served a prison sentence for fraud from 2006 to 2007. While Brauman was imprisoned for a total of twelve months and one day, Gay was trained by former sprinter Jon Drummond .

On October 16, 2016, Gay's 15-year-old daughter died in a shooting in Lexington, Kentucky.

statistics

Web links

Commons : Tyson Gay  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Tyson Gay in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field
• Detailed statistics at Tilastopaja

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] . ustaf.org.
2. ↑ [2] . ustaf.org.
3. ^ ESPN: Tyson Gay working with John Smith . March 20, 2015
4. ↑ USA men's 4 x 100m relay team disqualified from the 2012 London Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee , May 20, 2015, accessed April 22, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: US records and world best time in Carson . May 21, 2007
6. ↑ IAAF: Gay 9.76w and Xiang 12.92 - five world season leads - in New York - IAAF World Athletics Tour . June 3, 2007
7. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay - Windy 9.76 seconds . June 3, 2007
8. ↑ IAAF: Gay runs 9.84 world season lead into the wind - US Champs, Day 2 . , June 23, 2007
9. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay US champion in 9.84 seconds . June 23, 2007
10. ↑ IAAF: Gay runs 19.62, the second fastest 200m in history - US Champs, Day 4 . June 24, 2007
11. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay rises to the eternal number two . June 25, 2007
12. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: The world athletes of the year . November 25, 2007
13. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Usain Bolt runs a new 100 meter world record . June 1, 2008
14. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay runs in the quarterfinals US record . June 29, 2008
15. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay with too much wind for 9.68 seconds . June 30, 2008
16. ↑ ARD : Gay fell over 200m in US trials . July 6, 2008
17. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay and Kerron Stewart convince . July 10, 2009
18. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay furiously on the road again . May 31, 2009
19. ^ IAAF: With sub-45 run, Gay becomes first to break three major sprint barriers ( Memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). April 22, 2010
20. ↑ welt.de: World Cup duel between sprint superstars Bolt and Gay is canceled . June 26, 2011
21. ↑ SportingAlert.com: Tyson Gay: I don't deserve to run on USA 4 × 100 team in Daegu ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . June 25, 2011
22. ↑ sportgate.de: End of season for US sprinter Tyson Gay . June 8, 2011
23. ↑ eurosport: Gay focuses on 100 meters . March 31, 2012
24. ↑ eurosport: US battle announcements to Bolt & Co ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . June 25, 2012 
25. ↑ stern.de: US Sprinter Gay shines with 9.86 seconds in Kingston  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . May 5, 2013  
26. ↑ spiegel.de: Athletics: Sprintstar Gay tested positive for doping . July 14, 2013
27. ↑ spiegel.de: B-sample from Sprinter Tyson Gay also positive . July 27, 2013
28. ↑ faz.net: Tyson Gay doping case: It was a steroid . 23rd August 2013
29. ^ Abendblatt.de: Powell received injections - Gay: "no sabotage story" . July 16, 2013
30. ↑ BBC: Tyson Gay's former coach Jon Drummond banned for eight years . 17th December 2014
31. ↑ focus.de: Adidas terminates contract with US runner Tyson Gay . 15th July 2013
32. ↑ US Sprinter Gay will be eligible to start again from June . Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 2, 2014, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
33. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tyson Gay blocked - Olympic medal gone . May 3, 2014
34. ↑ USA men's 4 x 100m relay team disqualified from the 2012 London Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee , May 20, 2015, accessed May 13, 2018 . 
35. ↑ kentucky.com: Track and field: Tyson Gay returning $ 500,000 to promoters . May 7, 2014
36. ↑ Daughter of US sprint star dies in shooting , Spiegel Online, October 16, 2016