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Allen Johnson

Basic Information

Status: Hall of Fame Gender: Male Date of Birth: 3/1/1971

Athletics Information

Event: Indoor Track & Field, Outdoor Track & Field Agent: N/A

Residences

Hometown: Washington, D.C. High School: Lake Braddock High School (Burke, Virginia) College: University of North Carolina

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21x

Golden League meeting winner

7x

National champion

4x

World champion

4x

National Indoor champion

3x

World Indoor champion

3x

World Athletics Final winner

1x

Olympic champion

1x

World Indoor Championships Silver medallist

1x

World Championships Bronze medallist

1x

World (Continental) Cup winner

Current Accomplishments

Personal Best

Filter Results

100m

EventPerformance
Event100mPerformance10.41

110m Hurdles

EventPerformance
Event110m HurdlesPerformance12.92

200m

EventPerformance
Event200mPerformance20.26

400m

EventPerformance
Event400mPerformance47.92

60m Hurdles Indoors

EventPerformance
Event60m Hurdles IndoorsPerformance7.36

60m Indoors

EventPerformance
Event60m IndoorsPerformance6.62

Long Jump Indoors

EventPerformance
EventLong Jump IndoorsPerformance8.14

Allen Johnson, a native of Washington, D.C., is one of the most decorated 110-meter hurdlers of all time. His illustrious career includes four World Championships, three World Indoor titles (60mH), seven national outdoor titles (four of them in consecutive years from 2000-2003), four national indoor titles, a 14-year streak of global top-10 rankings, and an Olympic gold medal from the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

Ranked No. 1 by Track & Field News for four years, Johnson ran a record 11 races under 13 seconds. While competing collegiately for the University of North Carolina, he won the 1992 NCAA Championship in the 55mH in a meet-record of 7.07. As a Tar Heel, Johnson set an ACC long jump record and was a four-time conference champion. He still holds school records in the 55mH and 110mH, as well as both indoor and outdoor marks in the long jump.

Following his retirement, Johnson coached at both Air Force, the University of South Carolina and was an assistant at the University of Kentucky, where he specialized in sprints, hurdles, horizontal jumps and relays. He is now entering his third year with NC State University as a sprints and hurdles assistanc coach.

Johnson in 1997 won USATF’s Jesse Owens Award, which annually recognizes the top male athlete of the year, and he received the USATF/Visa Humanitarian Award in 1999 after leading a successful fundraiser for a new track surface at his former high school.

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