Debbie Dunn
Event: 400m
Height: 5-6.5
Weight: 128
PR: 49.64 (2010)
Born: 03/26/1978
Current Residence: Norfolk, Va.
High School: Fairmont Heights (Md.) HS ‘96
College: Norfolk State ‘00
Coach: Steve Riddick
Agent: Caroline Feith
Sponsor: Nike
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Career Highlights: 2010 World Indoor 400m and 4x400m gold medalist; 2010 USA Indoor champion; 2009 World Outdoor 4x400m gold medalist; 2009 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2007 NACAC 400m and 4x400m champion; 2006 World Indoor 4x400m silver medalist
Dunn has brought home gold at the last indoor and outdoor World Championships, and qualified for her third World Team by finishing third at the USA Championships. Dunn won the first individual gold medal of her career at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in the women's 400m, crossing the line in 51.04. Dunn is only the third American ever to win the women's 400m at a World Indoor Championships and the first since Jearl Miles Clark in 1997. She followed that up with another gold and an American record running the lead-off leg for the women's 4x400m. Running her fourth 400m in three days, World Indoor champion Debbie Dunn ran the lead off leg in 51.25 on a team that included Dee Dee Trotter, Natasha Hastings and Allyson Felix and crossed the finish line in 3:27.34. It was Team USA's first-ever gold in the women's 4x400m relay at a World Indoor Championships...Dunn blistered the track in posting the fastest time in the world this year in winning the women's 400 meters (in a two section final) in 50.86 seconds at the 2010 USA Indoor Championships.
2011: 3rd at USA Outdoors (50.70)... 5th at Birmingham (51.28)...2nd at Pre Classic (51.37).
2010: World Indoor champion (51.04)…USA Indoor champion (50.86)... USA Outdoor champion (49.64WL)…3rd at Oslo (50.75)…4th at Doha (50.85)…4th at Pre Classic (50.56)…1st at Lausanne (49.81)…2nd at Gateshead (50.66)...2nd at Stockholm (50.59)…ranked #3 in the world, #2 U.S. byT&FN…best of 49.64.
2009: 6th at World Champs (50.35), 3rd in semifinal (49.95PS)…USA Outdoor runner-up (50.79PR)…4th at Paris (50.66PR)…4th at Oslo (50.84)…1st in 200m at Tanger (22.75)…4th at Paris (50.66)…best of 49.95.
2008: 8th at Olympic Trials (52.41)…2nd at Dublin (51.85)…2nd in 200 at Belem (22.76)…1st at Fortaleza (51.11)…1st at Fort-de-France (51.24)
2007: NACAC champion (52.68)…8th at Pan Am Games (52.97)…5th in semifinal at USA Outdoors (51.69)…3rd at Kingston (51.66)…
2006: 6th in semifinal at USA Outdoors (52.42)…3rd at USA Indoors (53.17)…5th at Xalapa (52.41)…
2005: 6th in semifinal at USA Outdoors (52.85)…3rd at Hermosillo (52.33)…best of 52.33.
2004: 8th at Olympic Trials (51.93)…1st at Atlanta (51.12)…1st at Munich (51.58)…best of 51.12.