Aries Merritt
Aries Merritt 2012
Aries Merritt (born 24 July 1985 in Chicago) is an American hurdler who specializes in the 110-meter distance.
At the Junior World Championships in Grosseto 2004 he won the gold medal. In 2006, he was starting for the University of Tennessee, in 13.21 s NCAA champion. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, he retired from in the flow. In the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, he came up with 13.67 s finished sixth and was after the disqualification of Dayron Robles fifth.
In 2012, he took in the winter before the change from eight to seven steps before the first hurdle. The new tactic was successful, he triumphed at the U.S. Indoor Championships and the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul on 60 m hurdles.
At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, he won the 110-meter gold medal and reached his personal best 12.92 s, only five hundredths of a second than the world record. This he broke on the 7th September at Van Damme Memorial in Brussels in 12.80 s and thus secured the worth 40,000 U.S. dollars total victory of the Diamond League standings. Before the world record he had completed since the end of June six runs in under 13 seconds.
During the indoor season in 2013, he was plagued by pain in the thigh, which is why he decided to want to incur no additional hall competitions more the end of January. In his first major outdoor meeting of the season, in Shanghai, he became so greatly impeded that he broke off the barrel. Looking at the World Championships in Moscow and the hoped- related qualification at the U.S. Championships in June, he then wanted to as early as possible to start to train again, but what it only possible from June 14, a week before the U.S. Trials again had. There, he managed to qualify in third with 13.23 s for the world championships. Starting with Birmingham, he completed three races before the World Cup, which he won all of them: in Birmingham with 13.23 s, 13.09 s in Paris, and finally in London with 13.14 s at the World Cup he came as expected in the finals where he was beaten to the stronger competition and was 13.31 s sixth.
Personal Best
- 50 m hurdles (Hall ): 6.54 s, January 28, 2012, New York City
- 60m hurdles (Hall ): 7.43 s, February 26, 2012 Albuquerque
- 110m hurdles: 12.80 s, September 7, 2012 Brussels