Wallace Spearmon

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Wallace Spearmon
Nationality:  United States
Distance(s): 100 meters, 200 meters
Date of birth: December 24, 1984 (1984-12-24) (age 24)
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Height: 1.91 metres (6 ft 3 in)
Weight: 79 kilograms (170 lb)
Medal record
Men’s athletics
Competitor for the  United States
World Championships
Silver 2005 Helsinki 200 m
Gold 2007 Osaka 4x100 m relay
Bronze 2007 Osaka 200 m

Wallace Spearmon, Jr., (born December 24, 1984 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a sprint athlete who specialises in the 200 meters. Spearmon is a graduate of Fayetteville High School and currently attends the University of Arkansas, where he competed collegiately for two seasons before turning pro.

While at Arkansas, he won the 200 meters NCAA Outdoor title in 2004 and 2005 as well as the NCAA Indoor 200 m title in 2005. In August 2005, he won the silver medal in the 200 m at the 2005 World Championships and in August 2007, he won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships. Spearmon won the 200 m at the USA outdoor athletics championships in 2006 and finished second in 2007.

His personal best in the 200 m is 19.65 seconds, the fifth fastest time ever. Only world record holder Usain Bolt (19.30), Michael Johnson (19.32), his training partner Tyson Gay (19.58), and Xavier Carter (19.63) have run faster. Despite the fact that he normally runs a "slower" first half of his 200 m races and goes on to pass people down the stretch, his 100 meters personal best is 9.96 s. He set that mark running in Shanghai on September 28, 2007, beating 100 m world champion Tyson Gay.

Spearmon initially finished in the bronze medal position in the 200 m in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but was disqualified for stepping out of his lane. The second place finisher, Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles, was also disqualified, giving Americans Shawn Crawford and Walter Dix the silver and bronze medals, respectively.[1]


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[edit] Personal bests

As of September 9, 2008
Date Event Venue Time (seconds)
January 26, 2008 60 meters Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States 6.70
September 29, 2007 100 meters Shanghai, People's Republic of China 9.96
September 29, 2006 200 meters Daegu, South Korea 19.65
February 10, 2006 300 meters Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States 31.88
July 8, 2006 400 meters Paris, France 45.22
  • All information from IAAF Profile[2]

[edit] Personal background

Spearmon's father, Wallace Spearmon, Sr., was a top-ranked college sprinter and the winner of the 200-meters at the 1987 World University Games.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "DQs move Americans into silver, bronze positions". NBC. 2008-08-20. http://www.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/news/newsid=239399.html#bolt+strikes+twice+with+another+wr?GT1=39003. Retrieved on 2008-11-03. 
  2. ^ "Spearmon, Wallace biography". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=0/athcode=199558/index.html. Retrieved on 2008-09-08. 
  3. ^ http://usocpressbox.org/usoc/pressbox.nsf/(staticreports)/2005SWUG/$File/Summer+World+University+Games+History.pdf?Open

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Flag of the United States Shawn Crawford		 Men's 200m Best Year Performance
2005		 Succeeded by
Flag of the United States Xavier Carter


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World Indoor Champions in Men's 4×400 m Relay

 1991: Germany (Lieder, Carlowitz, Just, Schönlebe)  •  1993: USA (Hall, Irvin, Rouser, Everett)  •  1995: USA (Tolbert, Davis, Long, Atwater)  •  1997: USA (Rouser, Everett, Maye, Minor)  •  1999: USA (Morris, Johnson, Minor, Campbell)  •  2001: Poland (Rysiukiewicz, Haczek, Bocian, Maćkowiak)  •  2003: USA (Davis, Young, Campbell, Washington)  •  2004: Jamaica (Haughton, Colquhoun, McDonald, Clarke)  •  2006: USA (Washington, Merritt, Campbell, Spearmon)  •  2008: USA (Davis, Torrance, Nixon, Willie)
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IAAF World Cup Champions in Men's 200 m

 1977: Clancy Edwards (USA)  •  1979 : Silvio Leonard (CUB)  •  1981: Mel Lattany (USA)  •  1985 – 1992: Robson da Silva (BRA)  •  1994: John Regis (GBR)  •  1998: Frankie Fredericks (NAM)  •  2002: Francis Obikwelu (POR)  •  2006: Wallace Spearmon (USA)
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World Champions in Men's 4×100 m Relay
1983 United States (Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis)  · 1987 United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Carl Lewis)  · 1991 United States (Andre Cason, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell, Carl Lewis)  · 1993 United States (Jon Drummond, Andre Cason, Dennis Mitchell, Leroy Burrell)  · 1995 Canada (Donovan Bailey, Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin)  · 1997 Canada (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) · 1999 United States (Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene)  · 2001 South Africa (Morne Nagel, Corne Du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton, Matthew Quinn)  · 2003 United States (John Capel, Bernard Williams, Darvis Patton, Joshua J. Johnson)  · 2005 France (Ladji Doucouré, Ronald Pognon, Eddy De Lépine, Lueyi Dovy)  · 2007 United States (Darvis Patton, Wallace Spearmon, Tyson Gay, Leroy Dixon)
2007 United States (Darvis Patton, Wallace Spearmon, Tyson Gay, Leroy Dixon)


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