Derrick Adkins

Derrick Adkins ( born July 2, 1970 in Brooklyn ) is a former American track and field athlete.

The winner of the 400 -meter hurdle races of the World Student Championships in 1991 and 1993 participated for the first time at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 at a major international event in part. He reached the final and it was sixth. According to a seventh place finish at the World Athletics Championships 1993, he made a big leap in performance in 1994. It was the first time U.S. champion in the 400m hurdles and repeated this in 1995. At the World Athletics Championships 1995 in Gothenburg, he won the gold medal just ahead of its major competitors these years: Samuel Matete from Zambia.

The world champion was also the declared favorite at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Only the Africans Matete had meanwhile moved up close to his achievements. Adkins had to be ahead of the game beaten in four of five races Matete, but in the end he had luck on his side and was Olympic champion. In 1997 he was again second at the U.S. championships, but could not defend his title at the World Athletics Championships in 1997 due to injury. Adkins now works as a track coach at Columbia University in New York City.

List of Olympic champion in athletics

List of world champions in athletics

Man
Olympian (United States)
Olympic gold medalist ( Athletics )
World Champion ( athletics)
Hurdler (United States)
Born in 1970

1991 World Championships in Athletics 1993 World Championships in Athletics 1995 World Championships in Athletics 1997 World Championships in Athletics Volker Beck (athlete) Kevin Young (athlete) Dai Greene

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