Marc Burns
Marc Burns ( born January 7, 1983 in Port of Spain ) is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago. He is a multiple medal winner with the 4 x 100 meters relay at the World Championships and Olympic Games.
Even as a junior, he focused on the 100 -meter run. At the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Santiago de Chile, he won the bronze medal, two years later, he secured at the same event in Kingston the silver medal, and he was Pan-American over this distance Junior Champion 2001.
In his first 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Burns finished with the 4 x 100 - meter relay team to third place, which was converted years later, in silver, after the victorious U.S. team was disqualified. At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis Burns launched more than 100 m, but already retired from the lead. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 he reached the seventh place in the relay.
In 2005, Burns was able to increase its power explosively. On 25 June 2005 he improved his personal best by 16 hundredths of a second to 9.96 s at the World Championships in Helsinki, he penetrated into the finals and reached with a time of 10.14 s seventh. On the penultimate day of competition, he won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay team of his country.
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Osaka in 2007 he was eighth. 2008 Burns won at the Beijing Olympics in the relay, the silver medal in the individual he was seventh. At the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 he again reached the seventh place and won with the relay silver medal.
2011 Burns was at the World Championships in Daegu with the season in sixth place. In Istanbul he started at the World Indoor Championships in 2012 over 60 meters and finished fifth. At the Olympic Games in London, he won the bronze medal in the relay.
Marc Burns has a competition weight of 77 kg at a height of 1.85 m. From 2002 to 2005, he was four times in a row champion of his native country.