Michelle Collins (athlete)
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Nationality | United States | ||||||||||||||
Born | February 12, 1971 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 200 meters, 400 meters, | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 200 m: 22.18 s (indoor) 400 m: 50.02 s | ||||||||||||||
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Michelle Collins (born February 12, 1971) is an American track and field athlete, known for long sprints. She was the 2003 World Indoor Champion at 200 metres. Her 22.18 from that meet would clearly be an American record, but it was never ratified. Her career came to an apparent end when she was handed an 8-year suspension for using Performance-enhancing drugs, after she was linked to the BALCO Scandal. She never tested positive but admitted using THG and EPO. Her results were retroactively disqualified. After some legal wrangling, Collins threatened to appeal the decision by USADA. She agreed to drop her appeal and her suspension was reduced to the more conventional 4-year ban.[1][2][3]
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- American female sprinters
- Doping cases in athletics
- American sportspeople in doping cases
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Universiade gold medalists for the United States
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships winners