Jerome Young

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Jerome Young (born: August 14, 1976) in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. His reputation as a sprinter has been tarnished as he was caught doping in 1999 casting suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career. Jerome was one of many athletes caught cheating via usage of performance enhancing drugs in what is now being considered the decade of steroids in sports (1993-2003). At the height of International Olympic Committee steroid investigations, several other athletes (Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene, Donovan Bailey etc...) have conveniently retired from the track & field stage leaving many drug abuse investigators forever apprehensive concerning the veracity and reliability of the marks they have all left in stadiums across the globe.

In 1995, as a senior in high school, Jerome set a Connecticut state record of 45.01 in the 400. Jerome was part of the world record breaking 4 x 400 metres relay team in 1998 along with Michael Johnson, Antonio Pettigrew, and Tyree Washington.

On June 29 2004 the IAAF announced the following:

The Court of Arbitration of Sport has decided that the Doping Appeal Board of USATF reached an erroneous decision when exonerating Jerome Young of a doping offence and that, accordingly, Jerome Young did indeed commit a Doping Offence on 26 June 1999. [1]

Jerome Young currently resides in Raleigh, NC as a sprinting coach at Millbrook High School. Jerome also teaches special education at the high school.

[edit] Statistics

• Height: 5'11
• Weight: 175 lbs
• PR: 400 - 44.09* (possibility of doping) (1998)

[edit] Achievements

• 1997
  • World Championships - Athens, Greece.
    • 4 x 400 m. relay gold medal
• 1998
  • IAAF World Cup - Johannesburg, South Africa.
    • 400 m. silver medal
• 2000
  • Summer Olympics - Sydney, Australia.
    • 4 x 400 m. gold medal (Stripped of medal for drug offences)
• 2001
  • World Championships - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
    • 4 x 400 m. gold medal
  • World Indoor Championships - Lisbon, Portugal.
    • 4 x 400 m. silver medal
• 2003
  • World Championships - Paris, France.
    • 400 m. gold medal
    • 4 x 400 m. relay gold medal
  • World Indoor Championships - Birmingham, England.
    • 4 x 400 m. gold medal