Alvin Harrison

Alvin Harrison ( born January 20, 1974 in Orlando ) is a former American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.

Career

A native of Florida Harrison has lived through together with his twin brother Calvin all the ups and downs of life. His low point was probably in 1995, when he lived with his brother as a homeless person.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta he won the gold medal in the 4 x 400 - meter relay along with his teammate LaMont Smith, Derek Mills and Anthuan Maybank, before the teams from the UK and Jamaica.

At the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 he won the silver medal in the 400 - meter dash, behind his compatriot Michael Johnson and before Gregory Haughton (JAM ), and again the gold medal in the 400 -meter relay race, this time together with your teammates Antonio Pettigrew, Calvin Harrison and Michael Johnson, before the teams from Nigeria and Jamaica. This medal was taken from him on August 2, 2008 due to doping offense by Antonio Pettigrew.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency stopped in October 2004 for the time being his athletic career. It had been proved against him, the taking of special and sometimes not detectable performance- enhancing drugs. Harrison admitted taking and received a four -year ban. Similarly him were all the tracks and competition results he had achieved after January 31, 2001, revoked. After the lock Harrison started from 2009 for two years for the Dominican Republic.

Alvin Harrison had a competition weight of 80 kg at a height of 1.88 m.