Bianca Knight
Bianca Knight ( born January 2, 1989 in Ridgeland, Mississippi) is an American track and field athlete who competes mainly in the 200 -meter run. Your greatest successes they achieved as a world and Olympic champion, however, in the 4 x 100 - meter relay.
Career
The Youth Athletics World Championships 2005 in Marrakech Knight won the title in the 100 meters and the silver medal over 200 meters. In 2006, she was U.S. junior champion in the 200 -meter run. The following year she successfully defended her title and won over the same distance at the Pan-American Junior Championships. As a student at the University of Texas at Austin, the NCAA Indoor Championships won Knight in 2008 in the 200 meter race. She celebrated victories at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York City and at the Bislett Games in Oslo, but could not qualify as a Fifth of U.S. knockouts for participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing.
2009 Knight won the British Grand Prix in Gateshead, ranked at the U.S. Championships and fifth place in the Athlétissima in Lausanne third place. The following year she was at the U.S. Championships fifth in the 100 -meter run. About 200 meters she scored numerous top rankings in international athletics meeting. Among other things, she repeated her victory in Gateshead.
2011 Knight reached at the U.S. Championships in fourth place in the 200 -meter run. She won three races of the IAAF Diamond League: the now relocated to Birmingham British Grand Prix, at the London Grand Prix at the Golden Gala in Rome. Furthermore, it introduced at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, the victorious U.S. 4 x 100 - meter relay to Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter and Marshevet Myers in the finals as the starting runner on.
In the 2012 Olympics she won the gold medal in the relay. The U.S. women put it in the lineup Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, and Carmelita Jeter with 40.82 seconds set a new world record and undercut the nearly 27 -year-old record of DVFL selection team by 55 hundredths of a second.