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Medal record
Maurice Greene
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Gold	2000 Sydney	100 m
Gold	2000 Sydney	4x100 m relay
Silver	2004 Athens	4x100 m relay
Bronze	2004 Athens	100 m
World Championships
Gold	1997 Athens	100 m
Gold	1999 Sevilla	100 m
Gold	1999 Sevilla	200 m
Gold	1999 Sevilla	4x100 m relay
Gold	2001 Edmonton	100 m
World Indoor Championships
Gold	1999 Maebashi	60 m
Goodwill Games
Gold	1998 New York City	100 m
Gold	1998 New York City	4x100 m relay

Maurice Greene (born July 23, 1974) is an American sprinter in athletics, who holds several world records and Olympic medals. He is a former world record holder for the 100m, with a time of 9.79 seconds.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Personal bests 3 Achievements 4 Video Interview 5 References 6 External links

Maurice Greene was born in Kansas City, Kansas and attended FL Schlagle High School. In his youth and high school, he participated in both football and track and field, but eventually proved to be best in the latter.

In 1995 he took part in his first major international tournament at the World Championships in Gothenburg, but was eliminated in the 100 m quarter-finals. His next season was disappointing, as he failed to make the American team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

However, the following season would be his breakthrough. At the World Championships in Athens, Greene won the 100 m title. This marked the beginning of Greene's dominance in the 100 m. He successfully defended his title in 1999 and 2001 and captured the Olympic gold medal in the 2000 Olympics. He was also successful at the 200 m. At the 1999 World Championships, he also won the 200 m title, the first to win both sprint events at a World Championships. However, he did not run the 200 m at the 2000 Olympics after an injury at the US trials.

In 1999 he set the 100 m world record at 9.79 s (+0.1 m/s wind), beating Donovan Bailey's standing world record of 9.84 s (+0.7 m/s wind), and lowering the world record by the largest margin since the advent of electronic timing. Greene also matched Donovan Bailey's 50 m indoor world record but was never ratified as a world record. He also set the 60 m indoor world record twice. His 60 m indoor record is currently at 6.39 s. Both records still stand. In addition, Maurice Greene is the only sprinter to hold the 60 m and 100 m world records at the same time.

In 2002, Greene lost his 100 m world record to fellow American Tim Montgomery, who beat his time by 0.01 (9.78 s +2.0 m/s), while Greene himself was injured and watched the race from the stands. Montgomery has since been found guilty of using performance enhancing drugs, and his record has been retroactively disqualified. The record was broken legitimately by Asafa Powell in 2005 with a time of 9.77 s (+1.6 m/s wind).

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greene added to his medal tally with the bronze after finishing third in his attempt to defend his 100 m title, and a silver as the anchor leg runner on the United States 4x100 m relay team, narrowly denied another Olympic Gold by the British team, who won by 0.01 seconds.

Greene has run 52 sub-10 second 100 m races during his career, more than any other sprinter in history. World record holder Asafa Powell is a distant second with 33. [1]. Previously Greene had held the record for the most wind-legal sub-10 second clockings for 100 m in one season, when he ran 9 sub-10's in 1999. This record was also broken by Asafa Powell in 2006.

On December 21, 2006, he appeared as one of the, "strangers," on the NBC game show Identity. Ironically, the contestant, who is a self-proclaimed track and field fan, incorrectly identified him by name as, Marion Jones, although she correctly identified him as the "world's fastest man" (his identity description).

Greene also appeared on the TV reality show Blind Date.^[1]

Greene is currently dating Claudia Jordan who holds case #1 on Deal Or No Deal.

Date	Event	Venue	Time
	50 m tied current world record with Donovan Bailey but not ratified		5.56
March 2, 1998 & March 3, 2001	60 m current world record	Madrid & Atlanta, GA	6.39
June 16, 1999	100 m former world record	Athens, Greece	9.79 (+0.1 m/s wind)
July 7, 1997	200 m	Stockholm, Sweden	19.86 (+1.6 m/s wind)

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Event
1995	IAAF World Indoor Championships	Barcelona, Spain	4th	60 m
1997	IAAF World Championships	Athens, Greece	1st	100 m
1997	U.S. National Championships		1st	100 m
1998	Goodwill Games	New York City, New York	1st	100 m
1998	Goodwill Games	New York City, New York	1st	4x100 m relay
1999	IAAF World Indoor Championships	Maebashi, Japan	1st	60 m
1999	IAAF World Championships	Sevilla, Spain	1st	100 m
1999	IAAF Grand Prix Final	Munich, Germany	2nd	200 m
1999	IAAF World Championships	Sevilla, Spain	1st	200 m
1999	IAAF World Championships	Sevilla, Spain	1st	4x100 m relay
1999	U.S. National Championships		1st	200 m
2000	2000 Summer Olympics	Sydney, Australia	1st	100 m
2000	U.S. National Championships		1st	100 m
2001	IAAF World Championships	Edmonton, Alberta	1st	100 m
2002	U.S. National Championships		1st	100 m
2004	2004 Summer Olympics	Athens, Greece	3rd	100 m
2004	U.S. Olympic Team Trials	Sacramento, California	1st	100 m

• Flotrack.com Videos of Maurice Greene

1. ^ Schaefer, Dave. Q&A: Olympic champion Maurice Greene on his contenders. Retrieved on 2007-06-05.

• IAAF profile for Maurice Greene
• Maurice Greene's U.S. Olympic Team bio

v • d • e Olympic champions in men's 100 m

1896: Tom Burke | 1900: Frank Jarvis | 1904: Archie Hahn | 1908: Reggie Walker | 1912: Ralph Craig | 1920: Charlie Paddock | 1924: Harold Abrahams | 1928: Percy Williams | 1932: Eddie Tolan | 1936: Jesse Owens | 1948: Harrison Dillard | 1952: Lindy Remigino | 1956: Bobby Joe Morrow | 1960: Armin Hary | 1964: Bob Hayes | 1968: Jim Hines | 1972: Valeri Borzov | 1976: Hasely Crawford | 1980: Allan Wells | 1984: Carl Lewis | 1988: Carl Lewis | 1992: Linford Christie | 1996: Donovan Bailey | 2000: Maurice Greene | 2004: Justin Gatlin

v • d • e Olympic champions in men's 4×100 m relay
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2000 United States Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis & Maurice Greene

Persondata
NAME	Greene, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	America athlete, Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kansas City, Kansas
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH