News10 Sep 2002


Biography: Maurice Greene (USA)

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Maurice Greene (© Getty Images Michael Steele)

Maurice GREENE (USA)
Born: 23 July 1974, Kansas City.

100m
PB: 9.79 – World Record
At Olympic Games: 2000:1st
At World Championships: 1995-quarter finals; 1997-1st; 1999-1st; 2001-1st
At Goodwill Games: 1998-1st

200m
PB: 19.90
At World Championships: 1999-1st

60m
PB: 6.39 – World Record
At World Indoor Championships: 1995-4th; 1999-1st

Rare among US athletes, he never ran at college (10.43/21.00 as junior in 93) but made spectacular progress in 95, from 10.20w in 94 to 9.88w. He placed 2nd behind Michael Marsh in 95 US Champs. He tied world indoor 60 record of 6.41 in 98 and 2 days later ran 6.39. He equaled Donovan Bailey’s world indoor 50 record of 5.56 in 99. He moved from Kansas to train with John Smith in Los Angeles in September 1996. IN 1997 he clocked 9.90 to win the US Champs and twice in Athens before 9.86 to win the World title. He took0.05 off the world record for 100m at Athens in June 1999 and went on to confirm his place as world’s fastest man with a World Champs treble (the first man to win 100m and 200m at the World Championships.) Despite hobbling at the finish he ran 9.82 to win the 2001 world title at 100m with a wind of –0.2. His elder brother, Ernest Greene, was a national junior college 200 champion (20.60 in 92).

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