Christian Taylor (athlete)
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Born | Fayetteville, Georgia, U.S. | June 18, 1990||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Triple jump, long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Nike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Rana Reider (until 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christian Taylor (born June 18, 1990) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 18.21 m (59 ft 8+3⁄4 in), which ranks 2nd on the all-time list.
He was the triple jump champion and long jump bronze medalist at the
He followed his national title with a win in the triple jump at the
He also competes in the
In 2019, Taylor announced the formation of "The Athletics Association," an organization of professional track and field athletes around the world, independent of
Career
Early life and career
Born in
Taylor went on to attend the
2011 World Champion
He began his 2011 season with a personal and championship record triple jump of 17.36 m to claim the SEC Indoor title ahead of fellow
The two Florida Gators both took their talents to the
At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Taylor won the triple jump title with a distance of 17.96 m, a personal best for him and beating defending champion Phillips Idowu.[18] Idowu started the competition with a jump of 17.56 m. Then proceeded to jump 17.38 m and 17.70 m on his second and third attempt and looked poised to win the gold after jumping 17.77 m on his fourth attempt. Taylor never really looked like a serious gold medal threat before his fourth jump. He started with a no mark on his first attempt and only managed to jump 17.04 m and 17.40 m on his second and third attempt, respectively. On Taylor's fourth attempt, he leaped a distance of 17.96 m, a huge improvement from his previous personal best of 17.68 m, and was good enough for the gold medal. The jump was also the tenth best jump in history. Idowu could not respond to Taylor's distance and had to settle for the silver medal.[19]
2012 season
He came second to Will Claye at both the USA Indoor Championships and the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships, although his clearance of 17.63 m was an indoor personal best.[20] He defeated his rival at the 2012 Prefontaine Classic with a meet record jump of 17.62 m in June.[21]
Taylor defeated Claye by 8 cm at the
At the Olympics, Taylor was first in the qualifying round. In the final, Taylor fouled his first two attempts, putting him in danger of being eliminated. On his third attempt he jumped 17.15 to move into 6th place, but more importantly securing an opportunity to take three more attempts. With his fourth jump, he went on to produce his best effort of the season 17.81 m (58 ft 5 in) to win the gold medal. Claye would go on to finish second with a jump of 17.62 m, capturing his second medal of the 2012 games after a bronze in the long jump. For the second year in a row, Taylor's 17.81m was the best triple jump in the world in 2012.
2013 Move to England
Taylor's coach,
2014 Outdoor Season, Addition of the 400 Meters
In an April 2014 "Feature Interview" for Track & Field News, Taylor said that, after finishing 2013 ranked No. 2 in the world, he and coach Reider planned to treat 2014 as "a down year", since there were no World or Olympic championships.[22] He planned to run a lot more. As a way of mixing-up his training, he planned to compete in some 400 Meter races in the United States, beginning with the Florida Relays in Gainesville on April 4–5, 2014. Taylor once ran 400 Meters in 45.34 seconds during his freshman year (2009) at the University of Florida. [Note: Running under 45 seconds would place Taylor amongst the world's elite quarter-milers.] At the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, Taylor ran 45.17 making him a unique dual threat.
2015; American record
Taylor opened season in a competitive event at
This was the first competition in history to have two men jump over 18 metres, already called "the greatest triple jump competition ever.".[23] Two weeks later, Pichardo improved again to 18.08m and in July, Taylor became the second man in history to jump 18 metres twice in the same competition at Lausanne while improving his personal best to 18.06m.
Taylor overcame Pichardo at the
2016 Olympic Games
At the
In the Olympics in Rio, again Taylor was the No. 1 qualifier from the qualifying round. In the final, Taylor's first attempt was 17.86 m (58 ft 7 in).[27] This mark was enough to edge out his teammate Will Claye (17.76) and China's Dong Bin (17.58). This feat made Taylor the first repeat champion in the Triple Jump since 1976. Russian Viktor Saneyev was the last to achieve this feat, receiving 4 medals in his career. Following the competition Taylor said "The job is done. I never thought on my first jump that would be the gold medal. I wanted it so much. It came together, the stars aligned."
2017
At the
2021
Taylor did not participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games due a chronic Achilles injury.[29]
Taylor left the British training group of sprint coach Rana Reider once reports emerged of the
Major competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes | |
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Representing the United States | ||||||
2007 | World Youth Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 3rd | Long jump | 7.29 m | |
1st | Triple jump | 15.98 m | ||||
2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 7th | Long jump | 7.41 m (wind: -0.1 m/s) | |
8th | Triple jump | 15.61 m (wind: -0.7 m/s) | ||||
1st (h)[31] | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:05.25 | ||||
2010 | NACAC U23 Championships
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Miramar, Florida, United States | 1st | Long jump | 7.82 m (wind: +0.0 m/s) | |
1st | Triple jump | 16.66 m (wind: 1.2 m/s) | ||||
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 1st | Triple jump | 17.96 m | |
2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.63 m | |
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 1st | Triple jump | 17.81 m | ||
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 4th | Triple jump | 17.20 m | |
2014 | World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:57.25 | |
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 1st | Triple jump | 18.21 m AR | |
2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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1st | Triple jump | 17.86 m | |
2017 | World Championships | London, England | 1st | Triple jump | 17.68 m | |
2019 | World Championships
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Doha, Qatar | 1st | Triple jump | 17.92 m
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2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 18th (q) | Triple jump | 16.48 m |
USA National Track and field Championships
Personal bests
Event | Best (m) | Venue | Date |
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Triple jump (outdoor) | 18.21 AR | Beijing, China | August 27, 2015 |
Triple jump (indoor) | 17.63 | Istanbul, Turkey | March 11, 2012 |
Long jump (outdoor) | 8.19 | Knoxville , Tennessee |
May 15, 2010 |
Long jump (indoor) | 8.02 | Fayetteville, Arkansas | February 13, 2009 |
- All information taken from IAAF profile.
Personal life
Taylor is a Christian.[42] In April 2019, Taylor became engaged to Austrian hurdler Beate Schrott and in 2021 they married in Austria, celebrating the wedding at Schloss Gurhof and a few weeks later in Jacksonville.[43][44]
See also
References
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- ^ "Reider, US coach under investigation, ejected from World Athletics Championships". www.insidethegames.biz. July 17, 2022.
- ^ Competed only in the heat.
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- ^ Dirlam, Zach (April 25, 2019). "Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Christian Taylor Once Again a Student-Athlete". Florida Gators. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ AN OLYMPIC WEDDING AT SCHLOSS GURHOF IN AUSTRIA, storyofyourday, 2021-10-11.
External links
- Christian Taylor at World Athletics
- Christian Taylor at legacy.USATF.org (archived)
- Christian Taylor at Team USA (archived)
- Christian Taylor at Olympics.com
- Christian Taylor at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Florida Gators bio at the Wayback Machine (archived May 12, 2012)