biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1967– )
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| biography:
| Track athlete, born in Dallas, Texas, USA. He attended Baylor University, TX. Johnson, who has a distinctive upright running style, won 32 consecutive 200 m finals from 1990 to 1992, and 58 in a row at 400 m from 1990 to 1997. Four-times world champion at 400 m (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999), he achieved the 200 m/400 m double at the 1995 championships, and an unprecedented male double of 200 m and 400 m gold medals at the 1996 (Atlanta) Olympics. He wore gold shoes for the final in Atlanta, when he took 0·34 sec off his own 200 m world record, winning in 19·32 sec. |
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