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60-yard Dash
The 60-yard dash is a sprint covering 60 yards (54.86 m, sometimes recognized as ' 55-m dash'). It is primarily run to evaluate the speed and acceleration of American Major League Baseball players. It is also sometimes used to evaluate the speed of American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ... (especially NFL) players (although the 40-yard dash is much more common in football). In the United States, prior to the adoption of metricized outdoor running tracks, the 60 yard dash was a commonly contested indoor event. Prior to 1983, the 60 yard dash was an event every year at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. The event was also regularly contested at the AAU Indoor Track and Field Championships. All-time top 25 Notes References {{reflist S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obadele Thompson
Obadele "Oba" Thompson Order of Barbados, BSS (born 30 March 1976) is a Barbados-born former sprinter, lawyer, author, and speaker. He won Barbados's first and only Olympic medal as an independent country by placing third in the 100 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Sydney Olympics. He is a three-time Olympian (1996 Summer Olympics, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004), and a finalist at each Olympics. His personal best performances are 9.87 seconds for the 100 m, 19.97 seconds for the 200 metres (both List of Barbadian records in athletics, Barbadian records), and 45.38 seconds for the 400 metres. He has held the indoor 55 metres List of world records in athletics, world record (5.99 sec.) since 1997. Obadele's Olympic success followed a collegiate career at the University of Texas at El Paso, University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) where he amassed several prestigious awards for his academics, athletics, and leadership. As a collegian, he won four individual NCAA sprint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasely Crawford
Hasely Joachim Crawford TC, OLY (born 16 August 1950) is a former track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became his country's first Olympic champion. Hasely Crawford Stadium, in Port of Spain, was renamed in his honour in 2001. Early years Crawford was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, one of the eleven children of Lionel Crawford and Phyllis Holder, and began pursuing athletics at the age of 17. He is a six-time Trinidad and Tobago 100 metres champion, and won the 200 metre title in 1976. He debuted internationally in 1970, winning a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the Commonwealth Games. Only two years later, he surprisingly qualified for the 100 metres final of the Olympics in Munich, but pulled his hamstring after 20 metres and failed to finish. Athletic career Crawford ran for Eastern Michigan University under coach Bob Parks during his college years. He was the runner up at the 1975 Pan American Games in the 100 metres. His coach pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Williams (athlete)
Keith Williams may refer to: Sports American football * Keith Williams (American football coach) (born 1971), American football coach * Keith Williams (bodybuilder) (born 1973), and former American footballer * Keith Williams (cornerback) (born 1983), Canadian football cornerback * Keith Williams (offensive lineman) (born 1988), Pittsburgh Steelers football player Association football * Keith Williams (Australian footballer) (1926–2004), Fitzroy VFL footballer * Keith Williams (footballer, born 1937), footballer for Everton, Tranmere Rovers, Plymouth Argyle and Bristol Rovers * Keith Williams (footballer, born 1957), footballer for Aston Villa, Northampton Town and Bournemouth Baseball * Keith Williams (baseball) (born 1972), San Francisco Giants baseball player Basketball * Keith Williams (basketball, born 1965), American basketball player * Keith Williams (basketball, born 1998), American basketball player Others * Keith Williams (architect) (born 1958) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Harden
Timothy M. Harden (born January 27, 1974) is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Harden was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he graduated from Northeast High School in 1992. He also attended the University of Kentucky. He is also the 2001 indoor world champion and 1999 world indoor silver medallist behind Maurice Greene. He competed for the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States in the 4 × 100 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his teammates Jon Drummond, Michael Marsh and Dennis Mitchell. He also competed in the 60 m sprint with a personal best of 6.43, which ranks him 7th all-time. External links Tim Hardenat USATF USA Track & Field (USATF) is a United States national governing body for the sports of track and field, cross country running, road running, and racewalking (known as the sport of athletics outside the US). The USATF was known between 1979 and 1 ... * * * Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmit King
Emmit King (March 24, 1959 – November 28, 2021) was an American track and field sprinter, who twice was a member of the American Relay Team for the Summer Olympics (1984 and 1988) but he did not compete. He is best known for winning the bronze medal at the inaugural 1983 World Championships in the men's 100 metres. At the same championships, he was part of the team that won gold in the 4 × 100 m relay for the United States, and in doing so set a new world record of 37.86 s. He set his personal best (10.04) in the 100 metres on June 17, 1988, at the 1988 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Tampa, Florida. While at the University of Alabama, King became the 1983 NCAA 100 meters National Champion (10.15 seconds). King was also twice national champion at the short sprint indoors: in 1984 at 60 yards and in 1988 at 55 metres. In 1986, he became a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity through the Theta Delta chapter at the University. King was also a graduate of Hueytow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Johnson (sprinter)
Fred Johnson may refer to: Musicians *Fred Johnson, bass player in the doo-wop band The Marcels *Fred Johnson, former second guitarist in the prog-rock band Minibosses *Fred Johnson, former member of the British band Radical Dance Faction *Fred Johnson, former member of the ska band Suburban Legends Sportspeople * Fred Johnson (American football coach), American collegiate football head coach in 1911 and 1917 *Fred Johnson (long jumper), track and field athlete, 1948 US National and 1949 NCAA champion long jump * Fred Johnson (Australian footballer) (1896–1956), Australian rules footballer * Fred Johnson (baseball) (1894–1973), Major League Baseball pitcher * Fred Johnson (offensive lineman) (born 1997), American football offensive lineman * Fred Johnson (racing driver) (1929–1991), American NASCAR driver, see list of former NASCAR drivers Others *Fred Johnson (actor) (1899–1971), Irish actor featuring in ''Martin Luther'' and ''The Saint's Return'' *Fred Johnson (TV wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Cooper (sprinter)
Brian Cooper (born August 21, 1965) is a former American sprinter and long jumper. He finished second in the 100 metres at the 1988 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, behind Emmit King, with his personal best of 10.01 seconds. In 1990, he won the 55 metres at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Cooper attended McNeese State University before dropping out in 1988 to train with Carl Lewis and other sprinters in Houston. Cooper was also an accomplished long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...er, having won the 1987 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in that event. References External links * 1965 births Living people Sportspeople from Portsmouth, Virginia American male sprinters USA Indoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston McTear
Houston McTear (February 12, 1957 – November 1, 2015) was an American sprinter, who emerged from desperate poverty in the Florida Panhandle to become an international track star in the mid-1970s. McTear rated in the top 10 in the 100 meters for the United States from 1975 to 1980, but he was stronger at shorter distances, including 60 meters. His 1978 world record in the 60 meters (6.54 s) stood up until it was broken by Ben Johnson in 1986. McTear ran a 6.38 in 1980, but that mark has been invalidated due to "questionable timing". If that time were to stand, it would still be the second best all time performance. However, his meteoric rise was effectively ended by the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Early promise Born and raised in Okaloosa County, Florida, McTear attended Baker High School and won state titles in the 100 and 220 yards four times, the only Florida high school athlete ever to do so. He recorded a 9.0 mark in the 100-yard dash as a hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ato Boldon
Ato Jabari Boldon (born 30 December 1973) is a Trinidadian former track and field athlete, politician, and four-time Olympic medal winner. He holds the Trinidad and Tobago national record in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events with times of 5.64, 6.49 and 19.77 seconds respectively, and also the Commonwealth Games record in the 100 m. He also held the 100 m national record at 9.86 s, having run it four times until Richard Thompson ran 9.85 s on 13 August 2011. After retiring from his track career, Boldon was an Opposition Senator in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament, representing the United National Congress from 2006–2007. Boldon works as an NBC Sports television broadcast analyst for track and field. Career Early life and junior career Boldon was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago to a Jamaican mother, and Trinidadian father, Hope and Guy Boldon. He attended Fatima College (secondary school) in Trinidad before leaving for the United States at age four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andre Cason
Andre Cason (born January 20, 1969) is an American former track and field sprinter. He was a member of the American 4 × 100 meters relay team that won the gold medal at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo with a world record time of 37.50 seconds. A few weeks after this event, Cason ran his first sub-10-second 100 meters race when winning in Koblenz in 9.99 seconds. Cason attended Texas A&M University, where he was a two-time NCAA champion, and seven-time All-American for the Aggies. The 1992 season started well for Cason as he set the world indoor record for the 60 meters on three occasions, leaving a standing world record of 6.41, and equalled the world indoor record for the 50 meters with a time of 5.62. Cason kept his excellent form until the early summer. However, at the 1992 US Olympic Trials he suffered a career threatening injury with a torn Achilles tendon, and was out for the rest of the season. In 1993 Cason won the 100 m at the USA Outdoor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Floyd
Stanley Floyd (born June 23, 1961) is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States. He was a 1979 graduate of Dougherty High School in Albany, Georgia. In 1980, he was considered one of the favorites for the 100m title but was denied his chance due to the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Career Floyd attended the University of Houston where he studied for a degree in communications. There he hoped to train towards Olympic success - originally he was aiming for 1984 not 1980 - before turning to American football to earn fame and fortune.sportsillustrated.cnn.com 'In the Fast Lane Again', Craig Neff, Sports Illustrated, April 5, 1982. He originally attended |
Sam Graddy
Samuel Louis Graddy III (born February 10, 1964) is an American former athlete and professional football player, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Early life Born in Gaffney, South Carolina, Sam Graddy was second in the 100 m and was a member of gold medal-winning American 4 × 100 m relay team at the 1983 Pan American Games. Track and field Graddy was also a standout track athlete. In 1984, he won the gold medal at the 1984 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 100 meters with a time of 10.28 seconds, and as a University of Tennessee at Knoxville student, he also won the 100 meters title at the 1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. At the Los Angeles Olympics, Graddy was second behind Carl Lewis in 100 m and ran the first leg in the American 4 × 100 metres relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 37.83 seconds. Personal bests Professional career After graduating from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
