(1967-07-12) July 12, 1967 (age 56) Cap-Haitien, Haiti
Home town
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight
81 kg (179 lb)
Sport
Sport
Track and field
Event
100 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
100m : 9.84(Sevilla 1999) 200m : 20.21(Brussels 1999)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Canada
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Olympic Games
1
0
0
World Championships
2
2
1
World Indoor Championships
2
0
0
Commonwealth Games
1
0
1
Goodwill Games
0
1
0
Jeux de la Francophonie
1
0
0
Total
7
3
2
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta
4x100 m relay
World Championships
1995 Gothenburg
4x100 m relay
1997 Athens
4x100 m relay
1995 Gothenburg
100 m
1999 Seville
100 m
1993 Stuttgart
4x100 m relay
IAAF World Indoor Championships
1993 Toronto
60 m
1995 Barcelona
60 m
Commonwealth Games
1994 Victoria
4×100 m relay
1990 Auckland
100 m
Goodwill Games
1998 New York
4 × 100 m relay
Jeux de la Francophonie
1994 Paris
100 m
Bruny SurinCM CQ (born July 12, 1967) is a Canadian former track and field athlete, who was the winner of a gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 2008 he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of the 1996 Summer Olympics 4x100 relay team.[1] In the 100 metres, he has broken the 10-second barrier multiple times and holds a personal record of 9.84 seconds.[2]
^"Yzerman, Lewis among Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees". The Sports Network. 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bruny Surin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
BrunySurin CM CQ (born July 12, 1967) is a Canadian former track and field athlete, who was the winner of a gold medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the...
Budapest 21 9.84 +0.7 Donovan Bailey Canada 27 July 1996 Atlanta +0.2 BrunySurin Canada 22 August 1999 Seville +1.2 Akani Simbine South Africa 6 July...
boycott. In May 2022, Atlanta 1996 gold medalist BrunySurin was named as the country's Chef De Mission. Surin was chosen for his "athletic accomplishments...
he ran under 10 seconds, becoming the first Canadian to do so since BrunySurin.[citation needed] In the 200m, De Grasse broke the Canadian record with...
1992 Los Angeles Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy Russia 4 February 1994 Moscow BrunySurin Canada 27 January 1995 Moscow 5.64+ Donovan Powell Jamaica 21 February...
running in the final race which was won by Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, BrunySurin, and Donovan Bailey. He had a personal best of 10.19 in the 100 metres...
Ref 50 m 5.53+ (+0.2 m/s) BrunySurin 22 August 1999 World Championships Seville, Spain 60 m 6.38+ (+0.2 m/s) BrunySurin 22 August 1999 World Championships...
fastest 100m runner of all time with Canadian legends Donovan Bailey and BrunySurin. He won his semi-final in a wind-aided 9.76 seconds (+3.7 m/s) to improve...
opening ceremony, a pre-recorded segment featured track-and-field athlete BrunySurin passing the flame to sprinter Donovan Bailey on the EdgeWalk and parachuting...
Darren Braithwaite* 37.77 (AR) Canada (CAN) Robert Esmie Glenroy Gilbert BrunySurin Atlee Mahorn 37.83 (NR) 4 × 400 m relay details United States (USA)...
1967 – John Petrucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1967 – BrunySurin, Canadian sprinter 1968 – Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer 1969 –...
medallist. North Americans dominated the event as Maurice Greene and BrunySurin took first and second place respectively, with record runs of 9.80 s...
raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Esmie was part, along with Glenroy Gilbert, BrunySurin and Donovan Bailey, of a 4 × 100 m relay team in the mid-1990s. They...
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