Kevin Young (hurdler)
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Event | 400 m hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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College team | UCLA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Santa Monica Track Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kevin C. Young (born September 16, 1966) is a former
He became the 400 m hurdles world champion the following year, winning at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics with a time of 47.18 seconds. He had an unusual hurdling technique of switching between 12 and 13 strides between the hurdles, departing from the 13-stride technique popularized by Edwin Moses.[3]
Young's performances declined after 1993. He was inducted into the
Career
Early life
At
Young made his debut in international competition at the
Olympic gold and world record
In 1992, Young won his first
He won with a new world record of 46.78. He was the first person to have run 400 m hurdles in less than 47 seconds. The world record was unbeaten until Karsten Warholm ran 46.70 in Oslo, 1 July 2021.
Young became the first ever
It is well noted that Young, throughout the 1992 season prior to Barcelona, placed small pieces of paper with the numbers 46.89 in each running spike. He had mentally convinced himself that running under 47 seconds was possible.[6]
In 1993, Young won his second US National Championships title and had 25 consecutive wins until he was beaten by Samuel Matete from Zambia just two weeks before the 1993 World Championships. In the World Championships final, however, Young again made a decisive move between hurdles 7 and 8. He held this lead until the finish, beating Matete by 0.42 seconds.
Later career
After 1993, Young's performances on the track declined for a number of reasons. Young left from his training base in California and departed from his former coach
Personal life
Young is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.[8]
Young is an artist with work on display through the Art of the Olympians.[9]
In December 2019 Young, while a student at Swansea University, was involved in a road traffic crash in which he was the passenger on a double-decker bus that collided with a railway bridge on Neath Road in Swansea, South Wales. Young suffered a head injury and two broken ribs.[10] One of eight people hurt, he tried to pull the windscreen off a woman passenger who remained conscious but later died.[11]
References
- ^ "Kevin Young". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
- ^ "Norway's Warholm breaks 400 metres hurdles world record". Reuters. July 2, 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ Kevin Young Inducted Into Hall of Fame Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine. International Medalist Association. Retrieved on 2010-01-24.
- ^ "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
- ^ "Archives | The Philadelphia Inquirer". inquirer.com.
- ^ "Hurdles First - Kevin Young Profile". Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-10-25. Hurdles First article
- ^ Former Track Star and Current World Record Holder Kevin Young Inducted into USA Track & Field Hall of Fame Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine. UCLA Bruins. Retrieved on 2010-01-24.
- ^ "Home". Archived from the original on 2010-04-19. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ^ "Art of the Olympians | Kevin Young".
- ^ "Olympic gold medallist among eight injured in Swansea bus crash". Sky News. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ "Olympian tried to help injured bus crash passenger". BBC News. December 14, 2019.
External links
- Kevin Young at World Athletics
- Kevin Young at www.USATF.org
- Kevin Young at the USATF Hall of Fame (archived)
- Kevin Young at Olympics.com
- Kevin Young at Olympedia