LaTasha Colander

LaTasha Colander ( born August 23, 1976 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is a former American track and field athlete.

Colander is a very versatile sprinter who has achieved since 1994 success over distances 100 m, 200 m and 400 m. In 1994 she was U.S. Junior Champion and Junior World Champion in the 100 - meter hurdles. After a brief interlude in the 400 - meter hurdles, she was at the U.S. elimination fights to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney surprising s champion in the 400 -meter run with their existing today personal best time of 49.87 at the games in Sydney was then equally surprising lack the second qualifying round addition. Later Olympic gold medalist Cathy Freeman was (AUS) in 49.11 seconds. LaTasha Colander, however, won the gold medal with the U.S. quartet in the 4 x 400 - meter relay anchor leg.

In 2001 she was re- American champion in the 400 meters, but could not participate due to an injury at the World Athletics Championships in 2001 in Edmonton. In 2002, their results were worse on the 400 - m range, she switched to the shorter distances. Success was, however, only in 2004, when she s won the U.S. Trials for the Olympic Games in Athens in the 100 -meter run with her personal best of 10.97. At the Athens Games she then occupied, however, only in the final eighth place with 11.18 s

For the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 she qualified as a third party in the U.S. Trials in the 200 -meter run in a personal best of 22.34 s and was in the finals of the World Cup Fifth.

LaTasha Colander is 1.66 m and weighed in their active time 54 kg.

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• Sprinter (United States)
• Americans
• Olympic gold medalist ( Athletics )
• Olympian (United States)
• Woman
• Born in 1976