Xavier "X-man" Carter

Carter’s 2007 season was interrupted when he suffered a knee injury that sent him tumbling to the track in the finals of the men’s 200 meters at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships in Indianapolis. He bounced back later that summer to win in Zurich with a season’s best time of 19.92 seconds. In only his second race outside the United States at the 2006 'Athletissima' Super Grand Prix meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carter poured it on down the stretch to pass fellow American Tyson Gay to win the men's 200 meters in the mind-blowing time of 19.63 seconds (wind +0.4 mps), the second-fastest time in history. Only Michael Johnson's world-record time of 19.32 seconds from the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta is faster. Carter's performance was a gargantuan leap forward from his previous career fastest time in the 200 meters of 20.02 seconds from 2005…Carter made history in winning four titles at the 2006 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 100m, 400m, 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay. He started off running the second leg of LSU's 4x100m relay team, which was victorious in 38.44 seconds. The next day began with a 10.09 seconds (personal best) victory in the 100 meters and continued a half hour later with a winning 400m time of 44.53 seconds (personal best). Carter finished off his weekend anchoring LSU's 4x400m relay team, which won the national title by more then half a second. With his performance in Sacramento, Carter became the first athlete since Jesse Owens in 1936 to win four titles at a single NCAA Outdoor Championship and the first athlete ever to win both the 100m and 400m at an NCAA Championships…Carter was named the SEC's Indoor and Outdoor Freshman Runner of the Year in 2005, and he capped the collegiate season by earning a trio of All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. He anchored the Tigers to a national title and collegiate record in the 4x400-meter relay (2:59.59), clocking a blistering 44.0-second final-leg split, which is only the third sub-three minute performance in NCAA history and the first since the 1988 season ... Also ran the second leg on the Tigers' 4x100-meter relay team that earned All-American honors for their fourth-place showing (38.86) ... Individually, just missed out on a NCAA title in the 200 meters, earning runner-up honors with a time of 20.08. During his freshman indoor season he set a new LSU school record in the 200 meters on three separate occasions. First broke the old record of 20.69, set by Eddie Griffin in 1996, at the New Balance Invitational in New York City. Bettered that effort in the prelims (20.47) and finals (20.39) of the SEC Championships ... Carter finished up his sophomore season as a wide receiver on the Tigers' 2006 football team, playing in 10 games, including the Tigers' 40-3 win over Miami in the Peach Bowl. He finished the season with four catches for 86 yards, including a 49-yard touchdown reception in LSU's win over North Texas…He came to LSU as one of the most coveted recruits in the country. Running the 100, 200 and 400-meter dashes, he won nine Florida state titles, 10 regional, district and county crowns and nine Cape Coast Conference titles. He is the only athlete in Florida history to win state titles in the 100, 200 and 400 in back-to-back years (2003 and 2004). As a senior he set the national record in the indoor 200 meters, clocking 20.69 to become the first high school athlete to run under 21 seconds indoors. He was named the USA Track and Field, NIKE, Gatorade and National High School Coaches Association, Track and Field Athlete of the Year during both his junior and senior seasons. Carter has been "running fast to win" since he was 13 years old. That was when he first started to take track seriously. He admits that athletics was never his first love and at first he wasn't even that good at it. In fact, he was "lured" into it by his father, Ken, as a way to get faster and fitter for his main sporting obsessions: American football, basketball and baseball. "I was one of the slowest guys at first," he says of his early races as a schoolboy in Melbourne, Florida, where he grew up. "I really wasn't interested in track. You could see there was talent there but I was kind of a lazy kid and just wanted to play football. I would lose. "Then after a couple of years I thought 'If I'm going to be in it, why not win?' So I began to work and became one of the quickest in the state. The track coach (Gary Evans) pulled it out of me."
2007: 1st at Zurich (19.92)…4th in 200m at adidas Track Classic (20.26)….Nike Prefontaine Classic champion 200m (20.23)…2nd at Brussels (20.04)…ranked #3 in world by T&FN…best of 19.92.2006: 1st at Lausanne (19.63WL, #2 All-Time)…NCAA Indoor 400m champion, 200m runner-up (45.28, 20.30)...NCAA outdoor 100m and 400m champion (10.09, 44.53)…1st in 4x100m and 4x400 at NCAA Outdoors (38.44, 45.6)... 1st at Sacramento (10.09PR & 44.53PR)…3rd at Rome (44.76)… 8th at Stockholm (10.27)…2nd at London Grand Prix (19.98)…ranked #2 in world (#2 U.S) at 200m; #8 U.S. at 100m by T&FN…bests of 10.09, 19.63WL.2005: 9th at USA Outdoors (20.71)NCAA Outdoor runner-up (20.08)SEC Outdoor champion (20.16)1st at NCAA Mideast Regional (20.02PR)ranked #6 in world, #4 U.S. by T&FN...best of 20.02. 2004: Bests of 10.50, 20.72, 45.44. 2003: Bests of 10.38, 20.69, 45.88. 2002: Bests of 10.52w, 21.02, 46.90 2001: Best of 46.95.

Tyson Gay the Fastest Man Alive

In 2007, Gay established himself as the world’s dominant sprinter in winning gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the World Outdoor Championships and notching victories at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships in the 100m (9.84 meet record) and by running the second fastest time in history in the 200m (19.62, 0.3 meters-per-second headwind). Gay's 200m performance at Nationals in Indianapolis bettered Michael Johnson's 1996 meet record, and then world record time of 19.66 seconds. Gay's 100m performance in Indy (into a headwind of .5 mps) is the second-fastest ever run into a headwind, trailing only 2000 Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene, who ran 9.82 into a -0.2 headwind at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. Gay's performance shattered the USA Outdoor Championships meet record of 9.90 held jointly by former world record holders Greene and Leroy Burrell. Those victories came on the heels of wins in the 100m at both the adidas Track Classic and the Reebok Grand Prix. Gay served notice in 2006 that he is one of the world’s finest sprinters in dramatically lowering his personal bests in both the 100m and 200 meters, with performances that place him near the top of the all-time lists in those events. Gay’s time of 9.84 seconds in the 100 meters in Zurich was the second-fastest time in the world in 2006, and equals the fifth-fastest 100m time in history. He was impressive in the 200 meters in equaling the fifth-fastest time in history (19.68) and posting the sixth-fastest time ever (19.70) with his runner-up finish at Lausanne, Switzerland. During his breakthrough season in 2005, Gay was part of an American quartet that made history at the World Outdoor Championships in Helsinki. Gay finished fourth in the men's 200m final joining Justin Gatlin (1st), Wallace Spearmon (2nd) and John Capel (3rd) as the U.S. became the first country in World Outdoor Championships history to sweep the top four places in an event. In Helsinki, Gay posted the fastest times in each of the three qualifying rounds -- a wind-aided 19.99, 20.64 and 20.27. Gay followed his performance in Helsinki with a win at the 2005 World Athletics Final in 19.96 seconds. He ended the 2005 season with the third (19.93) and fourth-fastest (19.96) times in the world. Gay became the first athlete in University of Arkansas school history to win the NCAA Division I Outdoor 100m title with his victory in Austin, Texas on Friday, June 11, 2004. In his second race of the day, the five-time All-American clocked a UA school record and personal best time of 10.06 seconds, bettering the previous school standard of 10.11 set by Vincent Henderson in 1993. In a talented field of competitors Gay dipped his head at the line and finished just eight thousandths of a second ahead of second-place finisher Michael Frater of TCU. While at Barton County CC, Gay’s best times were a windy 10.08 in the 100 meters and 21.21w. As a prep standout in Kentucky, Gay was the state champion in 1999, 2000 and 2001, and posted prep best times of 10.46 and 21:23. Gay named 2004 Mideast Regional Athlete of the Year. He is a marketing major at Arkansas.
2007: World Outdoor 100m (9.85) and 200m (19.76) champion...World Outdoor 4x100m gold medalist (37.78)…USA Outdoor 100m (9.84) and 200m (19.62PR) champion…adidas Track Classic Champion 100m (9.79w)…Reebok Grand Prix Champion 100m (9.76PRw)…1st in 100m at Sheffield (10.13)…1st in 200m at Lausanne (19.78)…1st at London (10.02)…ranked #1 in world in 100m & 200m…bests of 9.84 & 19.62. 2006: USA Outdoor 100m champion (10.07)…2nd at Zurich (9.84PR)…1st at Stuttgart (19.68)… 2nd at Lausanne (19.70)…2nd at adidas Classic (10.04)…2nd at Reebok Grand Prix (10.04)…4th at Rome (10.04)…)…2nd at Stockholm (9.97)…1st at London Grand Prix (19.84)…ranked #2 in world (#1 U.S.) at 100m, #1 in world at 200m by T&FN…bests of 9.84, 19.68. 2005: 2nd in 200m at USA Outdoors (20.51)…4th at World Outdoor Champs (20.34)...1st at World Athletics Final (19.96)...3rd in 200m at NCAA Outdoors (20.16)…ran 19.93PR in semifinals at NCAA Outdoors...3rd in London (19.99)...2nd in Rieti (10.08)...ranked #3 in world (#3 U.S.) at 200m by T&FN…bests of 10.08 & 19.93.2004: NCAA Outdoor 100m champion (10.06PR)…4th in 200m at NCAAs (20.39) after posting a 20.09 in the prelims...5th in semis at Olympic Trials (10.13)…SEC 100m (10.02w) & 200m (20.16w) and 4x100m relay champion…ranked #9 at 100m #8 at 200m in U.S. by T&FN…bests of 10.06PR & 20.07PR in opening round at Olympic Trials. 2003: 3rd in 100m and 2nd at 200m at JUCO Nationals…bests of 10.01w & 20.31w.2002: 1st at 100m and dnf at 200m at JUCO Nationals…6th at USA Outdoors (10.28)…bests of 10.27 & 20.88.2001: 5th at 100m at National Scholastic Championships…bests of 10.46 & 21.23.2000: Bests of 10.56 & 21.27.

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