Jeremy Wariner

Birthdate: Jan 31, 1984
Weight: 71kg
Height: 185cm
Age: 25

Athlete Results

Athletics

23/08	Men's 4x400m Relay Final	2:55.39 (1st)
21/08	Men's 400m Final	44.74 (2nd)
19/08	Men's 400m Semifinal	44.15 (2nd)
19/08	Men's 400m Semifinal - Heat 1	44.15 (1st)
18/08	Men's 400m Round 1	45.23 (15th)
18/08	Men's 400m Round 1 - Heat 7	45.23 (1st)

Athlete Profile

Notes

2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2004 Olympic 400m and 4x400m relay gold medalist; two-time World Outdoor 400m and 4x400m relay gold medalist ('05, '07); two-time USA Outdoor champion ('04, '05); 2004 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion; 2006 Jesse Owens Award winner.
Placed second in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, finishing in 44.2 seconds.
Wariner picked up where he left off in 2006 in posting a 400m personal best of 43.50 seconds at the DN Galan GP in Stockholm on Aug. 7, 2007. The performance equaled the sixth-fastest time ever run (Quincy Watts, 1992). It also bettered Wariner's previous personal best of 43.62 from his win in Rome on July 14, 2006, and is the fastest time in the world since National Track & Field Hall of Famer Michael Johnson set the world record of 43.18 at the 1999 World Outdoor Championships in Seville, Spain. Only Johnson and Butch Reynolds have ever run faster in the 400m than Wariner.
Wariner continued his world dominance of men's 400 meters in 2006, posting a personal best and world's fastest time of 43.62 seconds, bettering the 44-second barrier on three occasions, and posting the five fastest times in the world that season. For his efforts, Wariner was ranked No. 1 in the world for the third consecutive year by Track & Field News. The only race he did not win was the final competition of the season in Shanghai when he did not finish. Saved his best performance for the biggest stage in 2005 in winning the gold medal at the World Outdoor Championship in Helsinki, Finland. Wariner won the race in a then-personal best time of 43.93 seconds, and joined fellow Americans Lee Evans, Johnson, Harry "Butch" Reynolds, Larry James, Quincy Watts, Danny Everett and Steve Lewis as the only athletes in history to break the 44-second barrier. At season's end, Wariner became only the ninth quarter-miler to repeat as the world's No. 1-ranked 400m runner in the 59-year history of the Track & Field News annual rankings.
At age 20, Wariner shocked the world with his gold medal-winning performance at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. With his win in a then-personal best time of 44.00 seconds, Wariner became the youngest gold medalist in the event since Steve Lewis, then 19, won in 1988, and Wariner posted the fastest time in the world since Johnson in 2000. He also broke Johnson's Baylor school record. With Wariner placing first, followed by fellow Americans Otis Harris and Derrick Brew in second and third place respectively, the U.S. got its first sweep in the 400 since 1988. Later in Athens he ran the third leg on Team USA's Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400m relay squad.
Wariner ran the then-fastest time in the world in 2004 at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Sacramento by clocking 44.37 to claim the 400m title. "I just feel like he's a young man who is good to coach," said his coach, Clyde Hart. "He loves running, he loves practice. I thought Michael (Johnson) was going to be only one I had to possess all those qualities, but Jeremy has all of it, too. If you have a natural ability to do that, you just go out there and get him ready."
Earlier in 2004, Wariner captured NCAA titles in both the indoor and outdoor 400 meters, setting stadium records at each championship. Wariner ran 44.71 at the outdoor championships in Austin and 45.39 at the indoor championships in Fayetteville, Ark.
Wariner also led the Baylor 4x400m relay to a pair of national titles, setting an NCAA indoor record at 3:03.96 and clocking the fastest collegiate time this season of 3:01.03 at the NCAA outdoor meet.
Winning was second nature to Wariner all season long, having lost only to his Baylor teammate, Darold Williamson.
Wariner lettered in track and football at Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas, where he set school records in the 200, 400 and 4x100 relay.