Tony McQuay
Tony McQuay 2013
Tony McQuay ( born April 16, 1990 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is an American athlete who specializes in the 400 -meter run.
Life
Youth
McQuay visited the Suncoast Community High School in Riviera Beach ( Florida), a neighboring town of his birth city of West Palm Beach. As a representative of his school, he won at the Florida High School Championships on the 400 meter distance. In addition, he also coached the other two sprints, 100 and 200 yards, and played in the American Football club in high school. Since 2010, he studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Career
His best performance he could improve further in 2010, about 200 meters to now 20.64 s and 45.37 s over 400 meters with He took part in the championships of the college associations NCAA and SEC and was at the NCAA Indoors on the 400 - meter range even win bronze.
In 2011 he won first at the SEC Indoors both the 200 meters and 400 meters. The big surprise he succeeded at the U.S. Championships. He won in 44.68 s, while defeated Jeremy Wariner and Greg Nixon, and qualified as the World Championships in Daegu. He stepped down from 46.76 s in the heats.
The next year there was for him next titles in the hall also a double success at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. With a personal best of 44.58 s he won the 400 - meter race and the Florida relay team also has the relay competition. At the U.S. Trials, he qualified in second place for the Olympic Games in London. Shortly before the Olympics, he not only started for the first time at a Diamond League meeting, but also for the first time in Europe: In London, he was third with 45.00 s. At the Olympic Games failed with 45.31 s in the semi-finals. With the U.S. season he won the silver medal behind the Bahamas.
Start of the season he was able to increase his 100-meter personal best to 10.22 s on April 5, 2013. After participating in Kingston, New York and Eugene were on June 22, the national championships, where he wanted to qualify for the World Championships in Moscow. With 44.74 s, he finished second behind LaShawn Merritt and was thus adopted as a member of the 4 x 400 - meter relay. Before the World Cup he played two tournaments in Paris and London, where he showed up with 44.84 s and 45.09 s in good shape for the season highlight. At the World Championships he won on August 13 in a new personal best of 44.40 s silver, before he and Verbug, Hall and Merritt won the gold medal in the relay competition on August 18.