Chris Brown (athlete)

Christopher Deon " Chris " Brown (born 15 October 1978 Eleuthera ) is a Bahamian sprinter.

Life

Brown 's 400 - meter runner and was already participating in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2004 Games in Athens, but never came as also in the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton and the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis on the prelims or the semi-final addition. However, he won the 2001 season with the Bahamian gold ( after the American Antonio Pettigrew was found guilty of doping ) and 2003 bronze medal at the World Championships. Only at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 he reached the final and finished fourth in 44.48 s, and the 4 x 400 - meter relay in the Bahamas, he won by a spirited sprint as the final runners the silver medal behind the USA and ahead of Jamaica. The squadron was national record with 2:57,32 min.

In 2007 he won at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro gold in both the individual as well as in the relay competition. At the World Championships in Osaka, he was in single race and fourth runners-up in the relay. On 6 June 2008 he was in Oslo with 44.40 s personal best. Previously, he had already won at the World Indoor Championships 2008 in Valencia bronze in the 400m. In the same year he succeeded with the 400 - meter relay silver medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 he finished fifth in the 400 -meter run. The following year he won at the World Indoor Championships in Doha title in singles, with the season he could not finish the final race. In 2011, he failed at the World Championships in Daegu in the semis.

The World Indoor Championships 2012 in Istanbul brought a bronze medal over 400 m. His greatest success came Brown at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. After it was over 400 m once again become Fourth, he put together with Demetrius Pinder, Michael Mathieu and Ramon Miller with the Bahamian Season in 2:56,72 minutes a new national record. This means that the quartet secured a surprise gold medal in front of the favored U.S. team.

He has a contest weight of 68 kg at a height of 1.78 m.

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