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Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper whose career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump.
American track legend Carl Lewis, who has long been calling for a coaching overhaul on the men's side, took to social media to condemn the program's repeated failure to meet the moment.
Lewis' 1991 jump of 8.87 meters remains third on the world all-time list, and he won gold in the event at four consecutive Olympic Games. He was joined by a group of other accomplished athletes in ...
After transferring to the University of Houston, he began being coached by Carl Lewis. In May 2024 he lowered his wind-legal personal best to 10.00 in Fayetteville, Arkansas and then ran a wind-assisted 100 metres in 9.84 seconds to qualify for the 2024 NCAA Championship finals. [10]
Carl Lewis' record at the time was: two-time Olympic gold medalist, two-time world champion (in the era when it was also still a once-every-four-year event) and, having been undefeated in ten years, he was deservedly considered the best long jumper in the world. Lewis had set the world record in the 100 metres sprint five days earlier. Lewis ...
Ledecky equaled Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, Al Oerter and a few others as the only Olympians to win the same event four consecutive times. So she wiggled those four fingers. An hour later, she ...
At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he reached the 100 metres final; after a false start, he won the bronze medal behind Carl Lewis and Sam Graddy with a time of 10.22. He also won a bronze medal with the Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team of Johnson, Tony Sharpe , Desai Williams and Sterling Hinds , who ran a time of 38.70.
The American team was strong, led by 1983 World Championship winner Carl Lewis, who was attempting to match Jesse Owens's 1936 quadruple (100, 200, 4x100, and long jump). Sam Graddy and Ron Brown were the other members of the United States squad, edging out world record holder and World Championships runner-up Calvin Smith.