Floyd Heard

Who is Floyd Heard?

Floyd Wayne Heard is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States, best known for setting the 1986 world's best year performance in the men's 200 metres. He did so on 1986-07-07 at a meet in Moscow, Soviet Union, clocking 20.12. A year later he won the title in the men's 200 metres at the 1987 Pan American Games.

Heard's personal best for the 200 metres was 19.88 seconds, set at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Sacramento on 23rd July 2000. That was the race where favorites Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene were pitted as rivals by the media. In a head to head battle, both pulled up during the race, leaving Heard to pick up the pieces behind newcomer John Capel, at age 34 becoming the oldest sprinter to make his first American Olympic team.