Jeremy Wariner
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| Olympic medalist | |||
 Jeremy Wariner |
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| Medal record | |||
| Men's Athletics | |||
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| Gold | 2004 Athens | 400 meters | |
| Gold | 2004 Athens | 4x400m relay | |
| Gold | 2005 Helsinki | 400 meters | |
| Gold | 2005 Helsinki | 4x400m Relay | |
Jeremy Wariner (born January 31, 1984 in Irving, Texas) is an American track athlete. He is a graduate of Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas. Height: 1.83m (approx. 6')
He won the gold medal in 400 meters the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, heading an American clean sweep. The USA also won the gold medal in the 4x400m with Jeremy Wariner running the third leg. He is known for wearing sunglasses for all of his races, regardless if it is sunny or not.
He is the first Caucasian man to win Olympic gold at 400m since Viktor Markin in 1980, and the first white American man to win a medal of any kind in the sprints (400m and under) since Michael Larrabee won the 400 in 1964. However, Wariner doesn't see himself as representing a particular group or race, but rather views it as the culmination of individual hard work and great coaching.
Wariner also won the 400m at the 2005 United States Track and Field Championships with a time of 44.20. At the World Championships in Helsinki he won the 400m in 43.93, and later anchored the American team in the 4x400m relay for the gold medal.
Wariner currently attends Baylor University (though he is not a Baylor athlete) and is coached by Clyde Hart, who was also the coach of Baylor alumnus and two-time Olympic 400m gold medal winner and arguably the greatest 400m sprinter ever Michael Johnson.
He holds a personal record of 43.62 seconds, which he achieved at the 2006 Golden Gala Meet in Rome. This time ranks him as the fourth-fastest 400m runner of all time, with the seventh-fastest performance ever. Together with Asafa Powell (100 m) and Sanya Richards (women's 400 m) he won his sixth out of six Golden League events (400 m) in the same season, which earned him a total of $250,000.
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| Olympic champions in men's 400 m |
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| 1896: Tom Burke | 1900: Maxey Long | 1904: Harry Hillman | 1906: Paul Pilgrim | Wyndham Halswelle | 1912: Charles Reidpath | 1920: Bevil Rudd | 1924: Eric Liddell | 1928: Ray Barbuti | 1932: Bill Carr | 1936: Archie Williams | 1948: Arthur Wint | 1952: George Rhoden | 1956: Charlie Jenkins | 1960: Otis Davis | 1964: Michael Larrabee | 1968: Lee Evans | 1972: Vincent Matthews | 1976: Alberto Juantorena | 1980: Viktor Markin | 1984: Alonzo Babers | 1988: Steve Lewis | 1992: Quincy Watts | 1996: Michael Johnson | 2000: Michael Johnson | 2004: Jeremy Wariner |
