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Christian Taylor (born June 18, 1990) is a retired American
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athlete who competed in the
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and has a personal record of , which ranks 2nd on the all-time list. He was the triple jump champion and long jump bronze medalist at the
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. He established himself as a top level triple jumper at the
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, where he won back-to-back
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Indoor titles and then consecutive NCAA Outdoor Championship titles in 2010 and 2011. Taylor won his first USA Outdoor national title in 2011. He followed his national title with a win in the triple jump at the 2011 World Championships, upsetting the field with the tenth best jump in history. He was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic team and won the gold medal in the
triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...
at the
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in
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. He placed fourth at the
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, but regained his title at the
2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...
. He won the gold medal in the
triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...
at the
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in
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with a jump of 17.86m. In 2017, Taylor once again stormed to victory in the triple jump at
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with a jump of 17.68m. Coming to the 2019 World Championships in Doha as the defending champion, Taylor took his fourth world title in the triple jump by producing a 17.92m jump. He also competes in the
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– with a best of – and in the
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s to a high level: his best for the
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is 45.07 seconds and he has run 20.70 seconds for the
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.Taylor, Christian
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. Retrieved on August 7, 2011.
In 2019, Taylor announced the formation of "The Athletics Association," an organization of professional track and field athletes around the world, independent of
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, to advocate for athlete rights.


Career


Early life and career

Born in
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to
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parents, he attended Our Lady of Victory Catholic School in Tyrone GA, and first learned how to triple jump there. He also attended Robert J Burch Elementary School and participated in their running club; he later attended Sandy Creek High School and played for their
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and track and field teams. He set state high school records in the long jump, triple jump and the
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, later going on to score a hat-trick of titles in those events at the 2008 National Scholastic Indoor Championships.Christian Taylor
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He made his first international appearances while he was a high school student: he won the triple jump
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at the
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and also claimed the long jump
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. The following year he was a finalist in both jumps at the
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. Taylor went on to attend the
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, recruited by coach Rana Reider, in 2009 and in his first year he won three titles at the
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Indoor Championships (long jump, triple jump, 4×400-meter relay). At the NCAA Indoor Championship he won the triple jump, came sixth in the long jump and helped Florida reach third on the podium in the relay. He closed his first year with a third-place finish in the triple jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Taylor established himself as the one of his country's best with a clearance of 17.18 m in March 2010, which made him the best American triple jumper that year. He was unrivalled in the event collegiately as he won both the SEC Indoor and Outdoor titles, and completed an Indoor/Outdoor NCAA double. On top of this, he won two further SEC titles in the relay, was third in the long jump at the SEC Indoors, and jumped a personal record of 8.19 m as the SEC Outdoors runner-up. Away from collegiate competition, he also won triple and long jump titles at the 2010 NACAC Under-23 Championships, and was the silver medallist behind
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at the
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.


2011 World Champion

He began his 2011 season with a personal and championship record triple jump of 17.36 m to claim the SEC Indoor title ahead of fellow Florida Gator
Will Claye Will Claye (born June 13, 1991) is an American track and field athlete of Sierra Leonean descent who competes in the long jump and triple jump. He won a bronze medal in 2011 World Championships in Athletics and the gold medals at the 2012 IAAF W ...
. He was also runner-up in the relay and eighth in the long jump. At the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships their positions were reversed, as Taylor finished second and Claye succeeded his teammate as the NCAA indoor champion. The pair continued their rivalry at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and delivered one of the highest calibre triple jump contests in the history of the competition. A good wind conditions aided the jumpers to marks over 17.30 m in the opening rounds, then Taylor took the lead with a personal record of 17.40 m (wind at the 2.0  m/s limit). Claye regained the lead by a centimetre, only for Taylor to respond with a wind-assisted 17.80 m which was enough to secure a second consecutive NCAA Outdoor title. The two Florida Gators both took their talents to the
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, where they repeated their top-two finish as Taylor claimed his first national title with a wind-assisted 17.49 m. Taylor proved himself to be a contender for a world medal as he defeated all comers at the
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, including the reigning world champion
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, with a personal best jump of 17.68 m. At the 2011 World Championships in
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, Taylor won the triple jump title with a distance of 17.96 m, a personal best for him and beating defending champion
Phillips Idowu Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, (born 30 December 1978) is a British athlete who specialised in the triple jump and was active at elite level between 2000 and 2014, with his greatest success coming between 2006 and 2011. He is a former World Outdo ...
. Idowu started the competition with a jump of 17.56 m. Then proceeded to jump 17.38 m and 17.70 m on his second and third attempt and looked poised to win the gold after jumping 17.77 m on his fourth attempt. Taylor never really looked like a serious gold medal threat before his fourth jump. He started with a no mark on his first attempt and only managed to jump 17.04 m and 17.40 m on his second and third attempt, respectively. On Taylor's fourth attempt, he leaped a distance of 17.96 m, a huge improvement from his previous personal best of 17.68 m, and was good enough for the gold medal. The jump was also the tenth best jump in history. Idowu could not respond to Taylor's distance and had to settle for the silver medal.


2012 season

He came second to Will Claye at both the USA Indoor Championships and the
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, although his clearance of 17.63 m was an indoor personal best. He defeated his rival at the 2012
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with a meet record jump of 17.62 m in June. Taylor defeated Claye by 8 cm at the
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as both went on to represent the United States at the
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. Third place at those trials, Walter Davis and no other American achieved a qualifying mark all season, so only the two Americans went to the Olympics. At the Olympics, Taylor was first in the qualifying round. In the final, Taylor fouled his first two attempts, putting him in danger of being eliminated. On his third attempt he jumped 17.15 to move into 6th place, but more importantly securing an opportunity to take three more attempts. With his fourth jump, he went on to produce his best effort of the season to win the gold medal. Claye would go on to finish second with a jump of 17.62 m, capturing his second medal of the 2012 games after a bronze in the
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. For the second year in a row, Taylor's 17.81m was the best triple jump in the world in 2012.


2013 Move to England

Taylor's coach,
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, was hired by
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in late 2012 to work with elite-level British sprinters and jumpers at the High Performance Athletics Centre (HiPAC) at
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. Taylor followed Reider to the English Midlands after the 2012 London Olympics. Taylor talked about the transition to living and training in England in a "Feature Interview" for ''
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'' magazine April 2014 issue. He said the biggest challenge was the cooler weather (compared to what he enjoyed in Gainesville, Florida), but that he enjoyed living in an apartment in the center of Loughborough and being able to skateboard the one mile to the HiPAC facility.


2014 Outdoor Season, Addition of the 400 Meters

In an April 2014 "Feature Interview" for ''
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'', Taylor said that, after finishing 2013 ranked No. 2 in the world, he and coach Reider planned to treat 2014 as "a down year", since there were no World or Olympic championships. He planned to run a lot more. As a way of mixing-up his training, he planned to compete in some 400 Meter races in the United States, beginning with the Florida Relays in Gainesville on April 4–5, 2014. Taylor once ran 400 Meters in 45.34 seconds during his freshman year (2009) at the University of Florida. ote: Running under 45 seconds would place Taylor amongst the world's elite quarter-milers.At the Drake Relays in
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, Taylor ran 45.17 making him a unique dual threat.


2015; American record

Taylor opened season in a competitive event at
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. His on his final attempt equalled the number 4 performer in history,
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. Coming into the meet, that would be the third best mark, however earlier in the rounds 21-year-old Pedro Pablo Pichardo had jumped , so Taylor was jumping just to try to get out of second place, Tamgho in third had already hobbled off the track injured. This was the first competition in history to have two men jump over 18 metres, already called "the greatest triple jump competition ever.". Two weeks later, Pichardo improved again to 18.08m and in July, Taylor became the second man in history to jump 18 metres twice in the same competition at
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while improving his personal best to 18.06m. Taylor overcame Pichardo at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing. His jump of was the No. 2 jump in history and beat the Cuban by almost 50 cm. The jump ranks just 8 cm behind the World Record of
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. It set a new American record in the event. Taylor then went on to overtake his Cuban rival again at the final stop of the
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, taking home his fourth consecutive
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title with a jump of 17.59m.


2016 Olympic Games

At the
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, Claye beat Taylor 17.65m to 17.39m, but Taylor finished second and qualified to go to Rio to defend his Olympic championship from London.
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was the third American also qualifying to Rio. In the Olympics in Rio, again Taylor was the No. 1 qualifier from the qualifying round. In the final, Taylor's first attempt was . This mark was enough to edge out his teammate Will Claye (17.76) and China's Dong Bin (17.58). This feat made Taylor the first repeat champion in the Triple Jump since 1976. Russian
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was the last to achieve this feat, receiving 4 medals in his career. Following the competition Taylor said "The job is done. I never thought on my first jump that would be the gold medal. I wanted it so much. It came together, the stars aligned."


2017

At the
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, Taylor jumped the fourth best jump in history, . As defending champion, Taylor was given an automatic entry into the
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. As Diamond League Champion, he also earned an automatic entry into the World Championships, so he chose not to compete at the American championships, won by Claye in his personal best 17.91m. At the World Championships, Benard was the No. 1 qualifier, but a non-factor in the final. After Claye took the first round lead, Taylor took over the lead in the second and hit his 17.68m winner in the third round to successfully defend his world championship.


2021

Taylor did not participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games due a chronic Achilles injury. Taylor left the British training group of sprint coach Rana Reider once reports emerged of the
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investigation of Reider for sexual misconduct.


Major competition record


USA National Track and field Championships


Personal bests

*All information taken from IAAF profile.


Personal life

Taylor is a
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. In April 2019, Taylor became engaged to Austrian hurdler Beate Schrott and in 2021 they married in Austria, celebrating the wedding at Schloss Gurhof and a few weeks later in Jacksonville.AN OLYMPIC WEDDING AT SCHLOSS GURHOF IN AUSTRIA
storyofyourday, 2021-10-11.


See also

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