(1986-06-27) June 27, 1986 (age 37) Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.
Height
6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight
185 lb (84 kg)
Sport
Sport
Track and field
Event
400 metres
College team
East Carolina Pirates
Coached by
Dennis Mitchell[1]
Medal record
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Olympic Games
3
0
1
World Championships
8
3
0
World Indoor Championships
1
0
0
World Junior Championships
3
0
0
Total
15
3
1
Men's athletics
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing
400 m
2008 Beijing
4×400 m relay
2016 Rio de Janeiro
4×400 m relay
2016 Rio de Janeiro
400 m
World Championships
2005 Helsinki
4×400 m relay
2007 Osaka
4×400 m relay
2009 Berlin
400 m
2009 Berlin
4×400 m relay
2011 Daegu
4×400 m relay
2013 Moscow
400 m
2013 Moscow
4×400 m relay
2015 Beijing
4×400 m relay
2007 Osaka
400 m
2011 Daegu
400 m
2015 Beijing
400 m
World Indoor Championships
2006 Moscow
4×400 m relay
World Relay Championships
2014 Nassau
4×400 m relay
2015 Nassau
4×400 m relay
2017 Nassau
4×400 m relay
World Junior Championships
2004 Grosseto
400 m
2004 Grosseto
4×100 m relay
2004 Grosseto
4×400 m relay
Representing Americas
Continental Cup
2006 Athens
400 m
2006 Athens
4×400 m
2014 Marrakech
400 m
2014 Marrakech
4×400 m
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LaShawn Merritt (born June 27, 1986) is an American track and field athlete who competes in sprinting events, specializing in the 400 metres. He is a former Olympic champion over the distance and his personal best of 43.65 seconds makes him the ninth fastest of all time.
He was a successful junior athlete and won the 400 m gold at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics, as well as setting two world junior records in the relays. He became part of the American 4×400 meter relay team and helped win the event at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He established himself individually in 2007 by winning a silver medal in the 400 m at the 2007 World Championships.
He came out on top of a rivalry with Jeremy Wariner in 2008 by winning in the 2008 Olympic final in a personal best time, and by a record margin of 0.99 secs. He also broke the Olympic record in the relay with the American team, recording the second fastest time ever. Merritt established himself as the World Champion with a win at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in the 400 m and the 4×400 m relay.
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Olympic Champion in 2008, World Champion in 2007 and 2013. 3 wins: LaShawnMerritt (USA) - Olympic Champion in 2008, World Champion in 2009 and 2013....
behind countryman LaShawnMerritt. Wariner picked up the silver medal in the 2009 World Championships, again finishing second to Merritt. Jeremy Wariner...
Netherlands, he ran at the New York Diamond League race and placed second to LaShawnMerritt. His time of 44.38 seconds was a new South African record, bettering...
September 7, 2021. Scatamacchia, Eric (July 3, 2016). "Allyson Felix, LaShawnMerritt win 400m at U.S. Olympic Trials". NBC Sports. Retrieved September 7...
many individual titles in an event. The second most successful is LaShawnMerritt – a two-time champion and the only other athlete to have won four medals...
2010, 400-meter Olympic gold medalist LaShawnMerritt was banned from competition for taking ExtenZe. Merritt apologized, saying that he did not realize...
Van Niekerk also ran 31.03 (2016), 31.04+ (2016) and 31.63 (2015). LaShawnMerritt also ran 31.23 (2016), 31.30 (2009), 31.31 (2006), 31.53 (2015), 31...
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parents separated when he was two years old. His mother, Roslyn, moved to La Pine, Oregon. He was athletic from a young age, competing in football, basketball...
coming second with 22.35. In the 400m men final, LaShawnMerritt and Jeremy Wariner battled it out with Merritt securing gold with 44.06. Wariner ran a season's...
also featured six Olympic champions: sprinters Justin Gatlin (2004), LaShawnMerritt (2008), and Allyson Felix (2012), long jumper Brittney Reese, decathlete...
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