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Contents.Professional career Season's bests Year100 metres200 metres400 metres1986——20.4146.2919.231.4746.4919.211.8844.1719.981.060.0919.9443.9019.391.3243.4419.7519.6819.1820.6 In 1991 at the in, Johnson earned his first world title by winning the by the unusual margin of victory of 0.33 seconds over.Two weeks before the began, Johnson and his agent both contracted food poisoning at a restaurant in Spain. Johnson lost both weight and strength. He was the favorite to win the 200 m going into the Olympics, but he could do no better than sixth in his semifinal heat, and failed to reach the by 0.16 seconds. Nevertheless, he was able to race as a member of the 4 × 400 m relay team, which won a and set a new world record time of 2:55.74.
Johnson ran his leg in a time of 44.73.He won the 1993 U.S. Title in the 400 m, and followed it with in both the.
His 42.91 second split time in the 4 × 400 m relay remains the fastest 400 metres in history. At the in, Johnson won his first and 'double'. No elite-level male track athlete had accomplished this in a major meet in the 20th century. At the end he made it a 'triple' by adding another title in the.1996 Atlanta Olympics In June 1996, Johnson was 29 when he ran the 200-m in 19.66 seconds at the U.S. Olympic Trials, breaking 's record of 19.72 seconds that had stood for nearly 17 years.
With that performance he qualified to run at the in Atlanta and prepared to attempt to win both the 200 metres and 400 metres events, a feat never before achieved by a male athlete. (Two women have won Olympic gold medals in both races in the same year: in the in, and, in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.)Johnson entered the Olympic finals donning a custom-designed pair of golden-colored racing spikes made with, causing him to be nicknamed 'The Man With the Golden Shoes'. Sources differ on the exact weight of these shoes; the manufacturer of the spikes claims they weighed 3 ounces (85 g) each, while other sources state each shoe weighed about 94 grams (3.3 oz).
The left shoe was a US size 10.5 while the right shoe was a US size 11, to account for Johnson's shorter left foot.On July 29, Johnson easily captured the with an Olympic record time of 43.49 seconds, 0.92 seconds ahead of silver medalist of. At the on August 1, Johnson ran the opening 100 metres in 10.12 seconds and finished the race in a world record time of 19.32 seconds, breaking by more than three tenths of a second the previous record he had set in the U.S. Olympic Trials, on the same track one month earlier—the.
Some commentators compared the performance to 's record-shattering at the in. During the race, Johnson strained a muscle in his leg, which prevented him from winning his third gold medal of the Olympics in the as Team USA went on to win the gold even without him.After the 1996 season ended, Johnson received the as the top amateur athlete in any sport in the United States, and was named 's Athlete of the Year. In August, published his biographical/motivational book, Slaying the Dragon: How to Turn Your Small Steps to Great Feats.World's fastest man. Johnson's gold spikesJohnson's time of 19.32s (10.35 m/s) en route to breaking the 200 metre world record at the 1996 Olympics led some in the United States to consider him the fastest man in the world. In 1997 Johnson began appearing in Nike television advertisements in which he was billed as 'World's fastest man' as a result of his 200 m world record. This was despite the fact that the world record holder, at the time (Canada), was typically given that unofficial title.In a much hyped competition in June 1997, he raced against Bailey in a 150 metres (160 yd) race at in Toronto. The event was unsanctioned, and its unique course consisted of 75 metres of curved track and a 75-metre straight.
The race was billed as a competition for the title of 'World's Fastest Man'. However, Johnson failed to live up to expectations when he pulled up around the 100 metre mark, having injured his. Bailey won the race and the $1.5 million prize that came with the victory, Johnson received $500,000.1997–1999 After recovering from the injury, Johnson was able to compete for his third 400 m world title. The invented a new policy of giving a 'bye' to the defending champions essentially to allow Johnson to compete in the that year, because Johnson was unable to qualify the conventional method (by competing in the ) due to his injury from the race with Bailey. More than a month after the U.S.
Championships, Johnson had recovered from his injury and won the at the in.At the in, Johnson anchored the U.S. 4 × 400 m relay team with, and to a win and set a world record of 2:54.20. Pettigrew has since admitted doping from 1997, while Young was caught doping in 1999. The world record was annulled by the IAAF in August 2008, and reverted to the time of 2:54:29 Johnson helped set in the 1993 World Championships.Johnson was plagued by injury in 1999, and his following season was troubled with two injury scares that limited him to just four 400 m races before the in. Were it not for the policy established two years earlier for Johnson, that allowed automatic entry to defending champions, he could not have raced in Seville since he failed to compete in the U.S. Trials due to his injury. He recovered and won his fourth with a new world record time of 43.18 seconds at the relatively late age of 31 years and 11 months, which stood for nearly 17 years before being beaten at the by the.
Johnson's splits for this world record were 21.22 seconds for the opening 200 metres and 21.96 seconds for the closing 200 metres, giving a differential of 0.74 seconds.2000 Sydney Olympics After qualifying for the in the 400 m, Johnson sustained an injury in the 200 m final while racing in a highly anticipated matchup against the 100 m and 200 m world champion,. The injury prevented a defense of his 200 m Olympic title. Johnson ended his career at the Olympics by winning the gold medal in the 400 m, which brought his total number of Olympic gold medals to four. By winning the 400 m at the age of 33 years 12 days, he earned the distinction of being the oldest Olympic gold medalist at any track event shorter than 5000 m. Johnson was also the anchor of the United States 4x400 relay team along with, and, which originally won the gold medal, but was later stripped of the title after Pettigrew and (who ran in the heats) were found guilty of having used performance-enhancing drugs.On July 18, 2004, the (IAAF) ruled that was ineligible to compete in Sydney and annulled all his past results, including those achieved as part of relay teams. Young had competed for the USA team in the heats and semi-final of this event.
Therefore, the United States team was stripped of the gold medal and Nigeria, Jamaica, and the Bahamas were moved up one position each. On July 22, 2005, the (CAS) overturned this decision and restored the original finish order of the race based on a ruling that a team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense by an athlete who did not compete in the finals.
Then in June 2008, 'admitted in court he cheated to win' by using banned performance-enhancing substances, and agreed to return his gold medal. Johnson announced that he would return his own gold medal, won as part of the relay team with Pettigrew.
Johnson stated that he felt 'cheated, betrayed and let down' by what Pettigrew had done at the Games. Pettigrew committed suicide in 2010.Achievements. Main article:Johnson has run 200 m in under 19.80 seconds six times, and he has run the distance in less than 20 seconds twenty-three times. He holds nine of the top 50 200 m performances of all time. Johnson has run twenty-two 400 m races in under 44 seconds; he holds twenty-two of the top 50 and five of the top 10 400 m performances of all time. ^ Fish, Mike (June 20, 1996).
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