Justin Gatlin (born February 10, 1982) is an American sprinter specializing in events 100 and 200 meters. He is a 100m world champion, having beaten rival Usain Bolt at the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships. He is the 2004 Olympic champion at 100 meters, 2005 world champion and 2017 in the same event, and 2005 world champion in 200 meters. Gatlin was banned from competing between 2006 and 2010 by USADA for failing a second drug test, testing positive for testosterone.
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The five-time Olympic medalist, Justin Gatlin's best personal of 9.77 seconds ranks fifth in the all-time 100-meter male athlete list. He is a two-time indoor champion on the 60-meter dashboard, and won both 100 meters and 200 meters at the 2005 World Championships.
In 2001, Gatlin issued a two-year ban from athletics to test positive for drugs; The ban is then reduced to one year due to appeals. In 2006, he issued a further four-year ban (originally an eight-year ban) off course and field for positive testing of forbidden substances, with this sanction erasing his record time of 9.77 seconds in 100 meters. Gatlin began competing again in August 2010, as soon as his feasibility was restored. In June 2012 at the US Olympic trial, Gatlin ran in 9.80 seconds, which is the fastest recorded time ever recorded for a man over 30 years old. His elite career after serving two doping offenses made him a controversial figure in the sport.
Gatlin won the gold medal at 100 meters at the 2004 Olympics. After not competing in the 2008 Olympics due to suspension, he ran a time of 9.79 seconds in the 100 meters final at the 2012 London Olympics, clinching a bronze medal. His performance in the 100 meters final of the Olympic Games in 2012 contributed to the 100 meters fastest race in history, which saw three medal winners Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Gatlin all running under 9.80 seconds. He won his third Olympic medal in 100 meters in the 2016 Olympic 2016 final, finishing silver. At the age of 34, he became the oldest person to win an Olympic medal in a non-relay race. At age 35, Gatlin won a gold medal in 100 meters at the 2017 World Championships, full 12 years after his first win of the event; in doing so, he defeated three-time world champion and Olympic, as well as world record holder Usain Bolt in the last last individual race at the 2017 World Championships at Athletics in London.
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Career from 2000 to 2006
Gatlin attends Woodham High School in Pensacola, Florida. Gatlin was awarded a scholarship to the University of Tennessee.
In the fall of 2000, Gatlin arrived at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as a schoolboy with a speed of 110 meters. During high school, Gatlin was recruited to be tracked by coaches Vince Anderson and Bill Webb who quickly realized his potential and turned him into a fast runner. After training and competing in the Tennessee program for two years under the guidance of former assistant Vince Anderson, Gatlin won six NCAA titles in a row. In the fall of 2002, Gatlin left Tennessee after the sophomore season to join the professional ranks. Just two years later, he won a gold medal in 100 meters (9.85 seconds) at the 2004 Summer Olympics, narrowly defeating Francis Obikwelu of Portugal and defending champion Maurice Greene. He also won a bronze medal in a 200 meter race American sweep, and a silver medal as a relay team member 4-100 meters. In the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, he won gold within 100 meters of defending champion Kim Collins.
On 7 August 2005, Gatlin clocked 100 yards from 9.88 seconds to win the World Championships in Helsinki. Starting as a favorite and with world record holder Asafa Powell not competing with injury, Gatlin beat his rivals with the widest margin ever seen in the men's 100m world championship to clinch the World Double-Olympic title.
Gatlin also won 200 meters in Helsinki, becoming the second in the history of athletics to win both sprint spaces during the single World Championships (the first being Maurice Greene during the 1999 1999 Sevilla, Tyson Gay championship during the 2007 championships in Osaka and the 4th - Usain Bolt during the 2009 championships in Berlin). In the 200-meter event, American athletes reach the top four places, the first time any country does so in the athletic history of the World Championships.
On May 12, 2006, Gatlin, who ran in the final of the IAAF Super Tour meeting in Doha, Qatar, equaled the 100 meters world record of 9.77 seconds (set in 2005 by Jamaica Asafa Powell), although this was later canceled. Initially it was reported that he had beaten the record, with a time of 9.76 seconds 1.7 m/s wind. However, the IAAF revealed on May 16 that the time is 9.766 seconds, which is then rounded to 9.77, in line with the rules. Shortly thereafter, with an itchy track and field community for the Gatlin-Powell show, both appeared in the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon. No agreement can be reached with the meeting organizer, however, so that both compete in a separate heating. Gatlin won the event with a time of 9.88 seconds over Powell 9.93 seconds.
Gatlin withdrew from a meeting with Powell set for July 28, 2006 at the London Grand Prix.
Gatlin lives and practices in Kissimmee, Florida with coach Brooks Johnson. He is a regular competitor on the Spike TV show Pros vs Joes, which professional athletes fight nonprofesional.
On December 19, 2006 ESPN reported that Gatlin would work with Woodham's high school track team as a volunteer coach. He will help his senior high school with "some practice, run fast, block work, where he sees something and can encourage."
Doping ban
In 2001, Gatlin was banned from international competition for two years after testing positive for amphetamine. Gatlin appealed on the grounds that the positive test was due to the drug he drank since his childhood, when he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. The appeal resulted in an early recovery by the IAAF.
On July 29, 2006, Gatlin told the media that he had been told by USADA that he had given a positive doping test in April of the same year. He pleaded not guilty in this matter:
I can not be held accountable for this result, for I have never consciously used any substance or anyone authorized to give such substance to me.
It is believed that the substance that Gatlin claims is positive is "testosterone or its precursor." The test failed to unfold after a relay race on April 22, 2006 in Lawrence, Kansas. The sample "B" confirmed positive in July.
Gatlin is trained by Trevor Graham. Among the athletes trained by Graham, eight have tested positive or received a ban to improve the performance of drugs. After Gatlin failed tests, Graham stated in an interview that Gatlin had been sabotaged. She blamed the Christopher Whetstine massage therapist for rubbing the cream containing testosterone into Gatlin's ass without her knowledge. The therapist denied the claim, saying: "Trevor Graham is not speaking on behalf of Justin Gatlin and the story of me is not true."
On August 22, 2006, Gatlin received an eight-year ban from track and field, avoiding a lifetime ban in exchange for his cooperation with doping authorities, and for "extraordinary circumstances" around his first positive drug test. Gatlin appealed against the ban; the arbitration panel reduced it to four years at the hearing in December 2007. USADA Chief Executive Officer explained, "Given his cooperation and circumstances related to Mr. Gatlin's first offense, a four-year penalty issued by the arbitration panel is fair and just. His 9.77 performance, set in May 2006, was canceled.
Possible NFL career
It was reported that Gatlin plans to serve his four-year ban from tracks on the soccer field. On November 29, 2006 ESPN reports that Gatlin has worked with Houston Texans, though, he has little football experience and "has not played football since the 10th grade".
On May 4, 2007 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced that Gatlin was one of 28 free agents brought to their 2007 rookie camp on a trial contract, and considered the most unattractive athlete present. He tries to team as wide receiver. He did not succeed, though he stated that he believed that he had all the necessary skills and that the only reason he did not make the team was because the coach saw him as a "track man."
Back
On 3 August 2010, Gatlin returned to the athletics circuit after a four-year doping ban with tours to Estonia and Finland. He won 100 meters at Rakvere, recording 10.24 seconds. At the Ergo World Challenge meeting in Tallinn, he progressed with victory in 10.17 seconds. His coach, Loren Seagrave, admitted that the start of the sprinter was bad, but that Gatlin's finish to the race remained strong. Running at the last meeting of the Finnish Elite Games series in Joensuu, Gatlin won without injured Steve Mullings. In Rovereto, Italy, on 31 August 2010 Gatlin was second in 100 meters with 10.09 seconds behind Yohan Blake, who won in 10.06 seconds.
On June 25, 2011, in the US Track & amp; 2011; Field Championship, Gatlin second behind Walter Dix with the best time of the season 9.95 seconds. He represented the United States at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, where he was eliminated in the semi-finals.
At the 2012 Diamond League meeting in Doha, Gatlin ran 9.87 seconds, beating Asafa Powell in one hundredth of a second, and setting himself as favorite for medals at the 2012 London Olympics. On June 24, 2012 Gatlin won the 100 meters final at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon with the best personal time 9.80 seconds, the fastest time in history for men over the age of 30. On August 5, 2012 at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, he recorded a personal best time of 9.79 seconds in the 100-meter final, when he won bronze behind Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake.
On June 6, 2013, Gatlin beat world record holder Usain Bolt with one hundredth of a second to win 100 meters at the Golden Gala in Rome, Italy. On 11 August 2013, Gatlin won a silver medal behind Usain Bolt within 100 yards at the IAAF World Championships at 9.85. Bolt won the race at 9.77. Gatlin also took another silver in the 4 ÃÆ'â € "100 meter relay, crossed the line in 37.66 seconds, behind a Jamaican team that won in 37.36 seconds.
On September 5, 2014, Gatlin won 100 meters in the final of the IAAF Diamond League in Brussels with a personal best time of 9.77 seconds. He then proceeded to finish the double sprint at the meeting, winning 200 yards in a time of 19.71 seconds. This is the second fastest time of the season, behind his 19.68 world advantage which he set in the Monaco Diamond League earlier in the year. Gatlin's performance earned him a nomination for this year's IAAF Athlete. The other athlete responded skeptically to Gatlin, questioning whether he continued to take advantage of the illicit substances taken earlier in his career. German disc champion Robert Harting asked the IAAF that his nomination for Athletes of the Year was repealed in protest against the nominated Gatlin.
On May 15, 2015, Gatlin improved his personal best quality to 9.74 seconds (0.9 m/s) at the Qatar Atlantic Super Prix. The time is the fastest in the world since Yohan Blake ran 9.69 seconds in August 2012. This is the ninth best performance in history and improves Gatlin's position as the 100-meter best athlete of all time. On 5 June 2015, Gatlin beat 100,000 Rome Rome record 100 meters from Usain Bolt, ending in 9.75 seconds.
On August 23, 2015, Gatlin finished second behind Usain Bolt in the 100 meters final at the 2015 World Championships at Athletics in Beijing. Bolt's winning time is 9.79 seconds, with Gatlin 0.01 seconds behind. On 27 August 2015, Gatlin finished second behind by Bolt in the final from 200 yards at the same event. The time is 19.74 seconds, 0.19 seconds behind Bolt time of 19.55 seconds.
Gatlin won 100 yards in 9.80 seconds and 200 meters in 19.75 seconds at the 2016 US Olympic Celebration, becoming the oldest sprinter to make the American Olympic team.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Gatlin received a silver medal in the final 100 meters with 9.89 seconds. Usain Bolt, who won gold, had a time of 9.81 seconds. Gatlin also ran in the qualifying round 200 meters. However, with a time of 20.13 seconds in the semi-finals, he failed to qualify for the final.
Gatlin surprised many people at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics by winning gold with a time of 9.92 seconds. He beat his American teammate, Christian Coleman, who won silver, and Usain Bolt (in his last World Championship) who won a bronze medal. Some spectators scoffed at the results and IAAF Lord Coe President commented that he should be banned for life. Usain Bolt, however, condemned the booing as unfair and emphasized that Gatlin worked very hard and thus deserved a victory.
Wind aid process
In 2011, on the Japanese TV show Kasupe! Gatlin ran 100 meters in 9.45 seconds (20 m/s) assisted by a large wind engine blowing at a speed of over 25 meters per second. He received 2 million yen (about US $ 25,000) to perform on the program.
See also
- List of doping cases in athletics
- Men's 100 meters world record increase
References
External links
- Justin Gatlin's profile at IAAF
- Justin Gatlin's Profile at All-Athletics.com
- The BBC report from the Gatlin World Championship wins
- Michael Johnson at Justin Gatlin
- Biography of United States Olympic team Justin Gatlin
- The BBC: Gatlin denies the 100m mark
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