Antonio Pettigrew

Antonio Pettigrew ( born November 3, 1967 in Macon, Georgia, † 10 August 2010 at Chatham County, North Carolina) was an American track and field athlete.

He was. During the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, world champion in the 400 -meter run In the final of the 4 x 400 - meter relay team as he could -cage rotor Kriss Akabusi not hold the British, so that the U.S. relay team won silver.

After Pettigrew had been used at the World Championships in 1995 as a replacement rotor only in the flow of the season, he was in 1997 in Athens, in 1999 in Seville and 2001 in Edmonton each of the world champion baton to. In the 400 - meter race, he finished at these World Championships in seventh (1997 ), five (1999) and four ( 2001).

After he could neither 1992 nor 1996 qualify for the Olympic Games, in 2000 he took part for the first time in the Olympic Games. In Sydney, he placed seventh in the 400 -meter run and was with the U.S. relay Olympic champion.

As part of the process against his former coach Trevor Graham, he admitted to have operated (EPO ) during his playing days with the help of growth hormone doping and erythropoietin. He accepted a two-year suspension and returned the gold medals he had won since 1997. On August 2, 2008 Antonio Pettigrew was subsequently disqualified for the Olympic Games 2000. The gold medal in the relay was all athletes participating disallowed, as on 12 August 2008, obtained with the 4-x -400 - meter relay team on 22 July 1998 in Uniondale world record.

On 10 August 2010 Pettigrew was found dead in his car. Here he had committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. He leaves behind his wife and his son.