Jerome Young

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Jerome Young
Personal information
Born (1976-08-14) August 14, 1976 (age 48)
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 175 lb (79 kg)
Sport
Country  United States
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 400-meter dash
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 400 m: 44.09 (1998)
Medal record
Men’s athletics
World Championships
Disqualified 1997 Athens 4×400 m relay
Disqualified 2001 Edmonton 4×400 m relay

Jerome Young (born August 14, 1976) is an American former track and field sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter dash. He won gold medals with the United States 4 × 400-meter relay team at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics and 1997 World Championships in Athletics, but was later stripped of these medals due to doping and was ultimately banned from the sport. He also was the heats runner for the relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where the Americans won gold, but this was also stripped due to doping.[1]

Background

Born in Clarendon, Jamaica, he attended A.I. Prince Technical High School in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1995, as a senior in high school, Jerome set a Connecticut state record of 45.01 in the 400 m. He was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1995.[2]

Jerome was part of the world record breaking 4 × 400 m relay team in 1998 along with Michael Johnson, Antonio Pettigrew, and Tyree Washington.

On June 29, 2004 the IAAF announced the following:

The Court of Arbitration of Sport has decided that the Doping Appeal Board of USATF reached an erroneous decision when exonerating Jerome Young of a doping offence and that, accordingly, Jerome Young did indeed commit a Doping Offence on 26 June 1999.[3]

The effect of the decision was to negate all his results from 26 June 1999 to 25 June 2001, and to ban him permanently from the date of the decision. Accordingly, he and his teammates were stripped of their 2000 Olympic medal in the 4x400 m relay.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport reinstated the 2000 Olympic gold for Jerome's relay teammates in 2005.[4] Jerome had not run in the final; he had only run in one of the qualifying heats.

Young and the U.S. team had previously been stripped of the 2003 world championship relay gold due to a doping admission by teammate Calvin Harrison.

On August 2, 2008, the International Olympic Committee stripped the gold medal from the U.S. men's 4x400-meter relay team, due to a doping admission by teammate Antonio Pettigrew.[5]

Jerome Young resides in Raleigh, NC as a sprinting coach at Millbrook High School.[6] Jerome also teaches special education at the high school.

International competitions

These were later stripped due to Young's drug use during his career.

See also

References

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  3. ↑ IAAF Statement on CAS decision regarding Jerome Young. IAAF. 2004-06-29 Archived 2004-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "CAS denies Nigeria Sydney relay gold"
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  6. ↑ http://mhs.wcpss.net/athletics/index.html#sports

External links

Awards
Preceded by Track & Field News High School Boys Athlete of the Year
1995		 Succeeded by
Obea Moore

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