Patrick Johnson (sprinter)

Patrick Johnson ( born September 26, 1972 a boat in Cairns ) is an Australian sprinter.

The son of an Irish -born father lost his mother, an Aboriginal, at the age of 18 months and grew up on fishing boats. Only in 1996, during his studies at the Australian National University, he discovered the sport of running and ran right off the bat, the 100 m in 10.47 s By 2000, he improved that mark to 10.10 s

In 2003, he ran in Mito first Australian to the 100 - meter track in 9.93 s and placed so that the current Ozeanienrekord on.

Great success at the international level remained him but failed so far. At the World Athletics Championships 1997 in Athens, at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis, he failed to qualify. Only at the 2005 World Championships he made ​​it to a final and was about 200 m sixth.

Patrick Johnson is 1.78 m and weighs 71 kg. He speaks Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian, temporarily, he worked for the Australian Ministry of Foreign Trade.