Ath: Factbox on Gold medallist Shawn Crawford

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2004
Ath: Factbox on Gold medallist Shawn Crawford

ATHENS, Aug 26 Reuters - Factbox on Shawn Crawford of the US who won the Olympic gold
medal in the men's 200m.



Age: 26 (date of birth: January 14 1978)

Place of birth: Van Wyck, South Carolina

Height: 1.77 metres

Weight: 81 kg

Career achievements:

2001 world championships 200m bronze

2001 world indoor championships 200m gold

2004 world indoor championships 60m silver

Previous Olympic results:

2004 4th in 100m



He came to Athens as favourite after timing the fastest performance of the year (19.88)
and also winning the US trials.

Calls himself 'The Cheetah Man' after racing a zebra and giraffe on American television.

His coach, Trevor Graham, was the man who set off the BALCO drugs scandal by sending
a syringe containing a previously undetectable steroid THG -- tetrahydrogestrinone --
to the US dope testers, allowing them to devise a test for the drug.

Reuters mo

KEYWORD: OLY ATH CRAWFORD FACTBOX

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