Search results
- He won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona in the 4 x 100m Relay. He also won seven gold medals in national championships.
www.famousbirthdays.com › people › leroy-burrell
People also ask
Who was Leroy Burrell?
Who won a gold medal in the 4x100 relay?
Did Leroy Burrell beat Lewis again in 100-meter dash?
Leroy BURRELL. Team United States of America. Athletics. Olympic Medals. 1 G. Games Participations 1. First Olympic Games Barcelona 1992. Year of Birth 1967. Olympic Results. Biography. Personal Best: 100 – 9.85 (1994). Featured. Athletics. 02:29. Barcelona 1992 - USA win the 4x100 relay men and break the world record.
He won gold in the 100 m ahead of Carl Lewis at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. He won the silver in the 100 m behind Lewis at the 1991 World Championships. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Burrell false-started in the 100 m final.
Leroy Burrell was an Olympic gold medalist in the 1992 4x100 relay, and finished fifth that year in the 100 at the Olympics. Burrell competed at the University of Houston and the Santa Monica Track Club, following in the steps of Carl Lewis.
- Leroy Russell•Burrell
- Male
- Competed in Olympic Games
- Leroy•Burrell
Day after day Lewis would ascend the heights of athletic prowess to dominate track and field and win four gold medals - in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, long jump and the 4x100-meter relay. Burrell sensed he wasn’t just watching sports; he was witnessing history.
Aug 25, 1991 · The following year, Burrell was clearly the dominant force in the 100m, winning 19 of his 22 races at that distance, and recording significant victories over Lewis at the Goodwill Games in Seattle, and at the Grand Prix final in Athens.
Aug 1, 1992 · 100 metres, Men. The last five major international championships in the 100 had all been won by Carl Lewis – the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, and the 1983, 1987, and 1991 World Champinoships. But in both 1990 and 1991, Leroy Burrell (USA) was ranked as #1 in the world by Track & Field News.
Burrell then ran on WR 4x100m relay squads for Team USA at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and at the 1993 IAAF World Championships in Stuttgart, with both foursomes clocking 37.40. He added a pair of 4x200m relay WRs in 1992 and 1994 with Santa Monica TC, and he regained his 100m WR in ’94 with a 9.85 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
