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Encyclopedia > Leroy Burrell
Olympic Medal Record
Men's Athletics
Gold Barcelona 1992 4x100m Relay

Leroy Russel Burrell (born February 21, 1967) is an American athlete who twice set the world record for the 100 metre sprint, setting a time of 9.90 seconds in June 1991. This was then broken by Carl Lewis within a month. Burell set the record for a second time when he ran 9.85 seconds in 1994, a record that stood until 1996. Typical outdoor red rubber track For the American League baseball team based in Oakland, California see Oakland Athletics. ... Athletics Medal Winners at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Categories: | ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Typical outdoor red rubber track For the American League baseball team based in Oakland, California see Oakland Athletics. ... A world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, usually a sports event. ... Sprints are races in athletics. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former athlete who won 10 Olympic medals (9 golds) during his career (1984 to 1996), and 8 World Championship gold medals, and 1 bronze (1983 to 1993). ... The month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as some natural period related to the motion of the Moon. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...


Burrell grew up in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Suffering from poor eyesight accentuated by a childhood eye injury, he was poor at other sports but excelled on the track from an early age. He studied at the University of Houston, where he was a successful participant in their track program. Lansdowne is a borough located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. ... The University of Houston, formerly University of Houston–University Park, is a comprehensive doctoral degree-granting university[1] located in Houston, Texas. ...


Burrell was plagued by injuries and bad luck throughout his career, particularly around major championships. He won the silver in the 100 metres behind Lewis at the 1991 World Championships, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics was false-started in the 100 metre final and, when the race finally restarted, his reaction off the line was slow. He did though manage to win a relay gold as part of the US team at Barcelona. The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. ... The Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ... Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain. ...


Since his retirement in 1998, Burrell has replaced his old college mentor, Tom Tellez, as coach of the University's track team. Retirement is the status of a worker who has stopped working. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...


He married Michelle Finn, also a sprinter, in 1994, and they have two sons.


Notes

  1. Justin Gatlin (USA) and Asafa Powell (Jamaica) hold the current World record for the 100 metres with 9.77 seconds.

Justin Gatlin (born February 10, 1982) is an American sprinter. ... Asafa Powell at the Athens Games 2004 Asafa Powell (born 11 November 1982) is a Jamaican sprinter and current joint 100 m world record holder (with Justin Gatlin). ...

External link

  • University of Houston page on Burrell.
Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in Men's 4x100 m relay
1912 Great Britain David Jacobs, Henry Macintosh, Victor d'Arcy & William Applegarth
1920 United States Charlie Paddock, Jackson Scholz, Loren Murchison & Morris Kirksey
1924 United States Loren Murchison, Louis Clarke, Frank Hussey & Alfred LeConey
1928 United States Frank Wykoff, James Quinn, Charles Borah & Henry Russell
1932 United States Robert Kiesel, Emmett Toppino, Hector Dyer & Frank Wykoff
1936 United States Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper & Frank Wykoff
1948 United States Barney Ewell, Lorenzo Wright, Harrison Dillard & Mel Patton
1952 United States Dean Smith, Harrison Dillard, Lindy Remigino & Andy Stanfield
1956 United States Ira Murchison, Leamon King, Thane Baker & Bobby Joe Morrow
1960 United team of Germany Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer
1964 United States Otis Drayton, Gerald Ashworth, Richard Stebbins & Bob Hayes
1968 United States Charles Greene, Melvin Pender, Ronnie Ray Smith & Jim Hines
1972 United States Larry Black, Robert Taylor, Gerald Tinker & Edward Hart
1976 United States Harvey Glance, John Wesley Jones, Millard Hampton & Steven Riddick
1980 Soviet Union Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin & Andrey Prokofyev
1984 United States Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith & Carl Lewis
1988 Soviet Union Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Muravyov & Vitaly Savin
1992 United States Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis Mitchell & Carl Lewis
1996 Canada Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin & Donovan Bailey
2000 United States Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis & Maurice Greene
2004 Great Britain Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis

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Leroy Burrell (329 words)
Leroy Burrell had the best season of his career in 1991, first breaking the 100m world record of Santa Monica Track Club (SMTC) teammate Carl Lewis, and then subsequently losing the record to Lewis, when Leroy finished a close second behind him at the World Championships in Tokyo.
Burrell was not in the same form during 1992, although he was still one of the world's top sprinters.
Burrell failed to qualify for the individual events at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, but he was an inclusion in the 4 x 100m relay team which equalled the world record of 37.40sec in the first semi-final, and went on to win the gold medal in the final the following day.
Player Bio: Leroy Burrell :: Track (1702 words)
Entering his eighth season at Houston, Burrell was named the Conference USA men's and women's Indoor and women's Outdoor track and field Coach of the Decade and the NCAA South Central Regional Indoor Coach of the Year for the third straight year.
Burrell was named the C-USA Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2000 after leading the Lady Cougars to their first conference championship under his direction.
A year later, Burrell was recognized as the NCAA Regional Coach of the Year and the 2003 Conference USA men's and women's Indoor Coach of the Year after guiding both the men's and women's teams to C-USA Indoor championships.
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