Darrel Brown

Darrel Brown ( born October 11, 1984 in Arima ) is a track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 -meter run.

Already in his early youth, he drew attention to himself at international level. At the Track Junior World Championships in 2000 in Santiago de Chile, he took over 100 m and the 4 x 100 - meter relay still fourth place respectively. The Youth Athletics 2001 World Championships in Debrecen, he took then in the 100 - meter dash gold medal. Other medals he won at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Kingston in 2002 with the first place about 100 m and the third place in the 4 x 100 - meter relay.

As early as 2001 he had set out in the adult area. At the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in 2001, he became the final runner in the 4 x 100 meters relay together with Marc Burns, Ato Boldon and Jacey Harper the silver medal. Originally the squadron had occupied the third place in national record time of 38.58 s. The season of the United States but was later stripped of his gold medal, was detected as its final runner Tim Montgomery doping. Trinidad and Tobago moved subsequently in the standings ahead to second place. Brown was at the time of the World Cup finals only 16 years old. In addition, he was over 100 m in the same year national champion of Trinidad and Tobago.

At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003 he won the silver medal in the 100 - meter race in 10.08 s, only a hundredth of a second behind the winner Kim Collins of St. Kitts and Nevis. With a time of 10.01 s in the quarter-final round Brown also made it to a World Junior record. Shortly before, he had led the 4 x 100 - meter relay team of his country for the second place in the Panmamerikanischen Games in Santo Domingo.

At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 was followed by another silver medal in the relay. Together with Kevon Pierre, Marc Burns and Jacey Harper he presented it with a time of 38.10 seconds for a new national record for Trinidad and Tobago. In the 100 -meter run, however, he missed the final this time. With a time of 10.16 s, he was eliminated in the semifinal round.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he reached the quarter-final round of 100 m.

The next silver medal in the relay won Brown at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009. Together with Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callander and Richard Thompson he scoring in 37.62 s a new national record.

Darrel Brown has a competition weight of 79 kg at a height of 1.80 m.

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