Dwight Phillips

USA Championships
Four-time USA Outdoor champion - 2003 (8.24m/27-0.5); 2007 (8.36m/27-5.25w); 2009 (8.57m/28-1.5w); 2010 (8.37m/27-05.5)
2004 Olympic Trials champion (8.28m/27-02.0)
2000 Olympic Trials runner-up (8.14m/26-8.5)
Two-time USA Outdoor runner-up - 2005 (8.28m/27-02.0); 2006 (8.08m/26-6.25)
Two-time USA Indoor runner-up - 2002 (7.99m/26-2.75); 2003 (8.21m/26-11.25)
2001 USA Indoor champion (8.12m/26-7.75)
Twice third at USA Outdoors - 2001 (8.23/27-0); 2002 (8.25m/27-0.75)

International Championships
Four-time World Outdoor Championships gold medalist - 2003 (8.32m/27-3.25); 2005 (8.60m/28-7.25); 2009 (8.54m/28-0.25); 2011 (8.45m/27-8.75)
2004 Olympic Games gold medalist (8.59m/28-2.25)
2003 World Indoor Championships gold medalist (8.29m/27-2.5)
2007 World Outdoor Championships bronze medalist (8.30m/27-2.75)

Collegiate Championships/Honors
Two-time NCAA Outdoor runner-up - 1999, 2000

About Dwight
A moment that will live in the history of track and field, following his gold medal at the 2011 World Outdoor Championships, Dwight Phillips held up his bib number 1111 to signify his fourth World Outdoor gold medal. He is the only long jumper to ever win four world titles. One of the best to ever step onto the long jump runway, Phillips has finished the season with the best jump by an American a total of six times since 2004. His personal best of 8.74m/28-8.25, which he jumped at the 2009 Nike Prefontaine Classic, was the furthest jump by an American sinceNational Track & Field Hall of Famer Mike Powell set the world record in 1991. That mark ties Phillips with Larry Myricks and Erick Walder for the eighth-best outdoor mark in history, and the trio are also tied as the #5 performers all time. Phillips won his third World long jump title in 2009 and received his gold medal from Jesse Owen's granddaughter. Owens had won the competition when the Olympic Games were also in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. German 1936 Olympic long jump silver medalist Luz Long's granddaughter, Julia-Vanessa Long, awarded the silver medal to runner-up Godfrey Khotso Mokoena of South Africa (8.47m/27-9.50). His 2004 Olympic gold medal was the first U.S. Olympic men’s long jump gold medal since Carl Lewis won at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. With Phillips’ triumph in Athens, U.S. men’s long jumpers have now won that event 22 times out of the 27 occasions the event has been contested in modern Olympic competition. A native of Tucker, Ga., Phillips started out as a triple jumper at the University of Kentucky, but after transferring to Arizona State in 2000, he has specialized more in the long jump.  As a high school athlete in Tucker, Phillips was a 1996 All-American and all-state selection. He set school records in triple jump (15.31m/50-3), 200m (20.90w) and 400m (47.50). At age 14 both his legs were broken in a motorcycle accident and it took two years for him to recover well enough to walk properly. “My brother’s friend hit me while I was in the street playing football with my friends,” Phillips said. “I didn’t know where he was coming from and I moved in the wrong direction,” to try to get out of the way.  His legs were left twisted, requiring eight months of rehabilitation and using a walker after the casts were removed. Communications major while at ASU. He married Valerie in October ‘04. He has one son, Dwight Jr., born Dec. 29, 2005.