Sentences with phrase «is a sprint champion»

Still speedy after all these years, the college track star and NFL wide receiver is a sprint champion once more

... He was the sprint champion of the league, so he was supposedly one of the fastest guys in the league, and he got caught from behind.»

Not exact matches

He was reportedly clocked at running 40 metres in just 4.2 seconds beating Walcott's record by just 1 / 100th of a second, but these times are being challenged by Richard Kilty, who is the World and European champion at 60 metre sprint racing.

Kelly King, who coached Vea at Milpitas, on a play from his junior season: «We were down ready to score on the goal line against another team and the sprint champion from the other team [Delshawn Mitchell of Wilcox High School], we had fumbled the ball and he picked it up and was running down the sideline.

The featured runners included Kenya's Martin Lel, who won a sprint to the finish for his second London title in three years (in 2:07:41); defending champion Felix Limo, who was in the dash at the end and placed third; world - record holder Paul Tergat (sixth); and reigning New York City Marathon champ Marilson Gomes dos Santos (eighth), plus 2004 Olympic champ Stefano Baldini, former world - record holder Khalid Khannouchi and former half - marathon - record holder Haile Gebrselassie.

World sprint champion Katrin Krabbe and many other athletes from the former East Germany are undergoing culture shock

On Massachusetts» gloomy and rain - spattered Lake Quinsigamond, the world champion oarsmen from Germany's Ratzeburg Rowing Club (SI, May 20) were pitted against last year's IRA champions from Cornell and 13 other crews in the annual eastern sprints.

The glory of the 10k is that you don't have to be a 5 time Olympic champion to complete the challenge, whether you walk, jog or sprint the 10k (I'll happily give anyone a tenner who can sprint the whole 10k) As long as you cross the finish line we've all completed the same challenge.

There was still time for King to launch an attack that stretched the reduced bunch, before the London 2012 team pursuit champion brought Deignan to the front to contest the sprint finale.

He was a two - time New Jersey state champion in the 100 - meter dash, running a 10.64 - second sprint in the finals last season.

Olympic champions Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell, Dani King, Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes, as well as Matt Crampton who won a silver medal in the team sprint at the 2006 Games in Melbourne, are amongst the riders who are selected to ride the track events taking place at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome from 24 — 27 July.

Some of Switzerland's top athletes are also due to compete, with European champion Kariem Hussein set to line up in the 400m hurdles in Lausanne for the second time, while national 100m and 200m record holder Mujinga Kambundji has been named for the longer of the two sprint events.

All of the main protagonists made it through to the next stage of the women's 60m, including Olympic and world sprint champion Shelly - Ann Fraser - Pryce, winning heat two in 7.12 and Murielle Ahouré, who is unbeaten over 60m since finishing second to Veronica Campbell - Brown in Istanbul in 2012, winning the final heat in 7.09.

Yvonne Murray, who had passed Sly on the last lap in Rome to finish seventh to her teammate's eighth, was more confident in Japan as European champion and sprinted into the lead 550m out but paid for her bold move by fading to 10th.

There was a world - leading performance in the women's sprint hurdles event too, as 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper - Nelson, pushed all the way by fellow American Queen Harrison, clocked 12.44 to Harrison's 12.46.

Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson and Britain's Adam Gemili are among the athletes in action as the IAAF Diamond League moves on to Shanghai for the second meeting in this year's series on Saturday.

Olympic long jump champion has changed training group and is planning some competitive sprint action in 2014 to help him on the runway

After several injury misfortunes in recent years, former double world sprint champion Tyson Gay tells CNN Sport that he's ready to make an impact in London

As we sprint to election day, everyone «knows» that President Obama has been a staunch champion of K - 12 spending.

He was a national sprint canoe champion and represented Canada at the Olympics in Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956).