Kelli White

Kelli White ( born April 1, 1977 in Oakland, California ) is a former American track and field athlete. It was 2003 double world champion, but soon found guilty of doping.

Life

White is the daughter of two former sprinter Willie White and Debra Byfield. She attended James Logan High School in Union City, California, where he was a member of the athletics team. 1994, at the age of 17, she grabbed a fellow student with a knife, after which she had to have stitches in the face with 300 stitches. White continued her season continues in spite of everything. Although she never won a federal Championship, held it until their completion in 1995, the peak period on the 200 meters and the second best time at 100 meters in the North Coast Section. She received a scholarship from the University of Tennessee, where she received a degree in 1999.

At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton White won the 200 meters and bronze with the American 4 x 100 -meter relay gold medal. Two years later at the World Championships in Saint- Denis, she won the 100 and 200 meters. The day after the 200-meter win the World IAAF announced that at a doping test for the banned agent Kelli White modafinil was found. White initially denied doping, but then gave to in 2000 by Remi Korchemny, the long time was their coach to have been presented to the Managing Director of Burlingame Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative Victor Conte. During her interrogation, they confessed that they had used tetrahydrogestrinone (GHG ) and erythropoietin (EPO ) in combination with modafinil and pleaded guilty before the Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS). On 18 June 2004 you two gold medals were again denied and all their rankings and results canceled since 15 December 2000. She received a two -year ban by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (May 17, 2004 to 16 May 2006).

White has since lectured about drug abuse in sport. During her two- year ban she taught at the "track clinics" at the James Logan High School. In May 2006, she announced her retirement from competitive sport.

Kelli White had a competition weight of 57 kg at a height of 1.63 m. She was friends from time to time with the German javelin thrower Boris Henry ( World Championship medalist in 1995 and 2003).