Desai Williams

Desai Williams ( born June 12, 1959 in Basseterre ) is a former Canadian track and field athlete.

Williams was ten times Canadian champion six times in the 200 -meter run (1977, 1979-1983 ) and four times in the 100 -meter run ( 1979-1981, 1983). In the Summer Universiade in 1983 in Edmonton, he won the 100m silver medal behind the Nigerian Chidi Imoh. Shortly afterwards, he finished at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki over the same distance the eighth. In the 200 -meter run, he reached the semi-finals, with the 4 x 100 - meter relay team, he retired in the run- off.

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Williams was used as the final runner of the Canadian season. Together with Sterling Hinds, Ben Johnson and Tony Sharpe, he won the bronze medal behind the teams from the United States and Jamaica. In the 100 - and 200 -meter run, he managed to each in the semifinals.

Along with Atlee Mahorn, Ben Johnson and Mark McKoy, Williams won at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986 the gold medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. At the World Athletics Championships 1987, he finished fourth in the relay. In the 100 -meter run, he left in the quarter-final round. In the 1988 Olympics he won over the same distance in a personal best of 10.11 s sixth. With the season he finished seventh.

Although Williams had never tested positive during his active career in doping controls, he later admitted to have used over a short period of anabolic steroids.

Desai Williams is 1,75 m tall and had a competition weight of 72 kg. He works as a sprint coach for the Toronto Argonauts and at York University.