Leroy Burrell
Olympic athlete
1967 –
Who is Leroy Burrell?
Leroy Russel Burrell is a former American retired athlete who twice set the world record for the 100 meters sprint, setting a time of 9.90 seconds in June 1991. This was broken by Carl Lewis in September at the World Track and Field Championships. In that race, Burrell came in second, yet he beat his own record. Burrell set the record for a second time when he ran 9.85 s in 1994, a record that stood until the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, when Donovan Bailey ran 9.84 s.
Burrell grew up in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn Wood High School where he single-handedly won the state championship by winning the 100 m, 200 m, long jump, and triple jump. Suffering from poor eyesight accentuated by a childhood eye injury, he was poor at other sports but excelled on the track from an early age.
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- Born
- Feb 21, 1967
Philadelphia - Also known as
- Баррелл, Лерой
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Michelle Finn-Burrell
(1994 - )
- Michelle Finn-Burrell
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Houston
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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