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American sprinter
Floyd Wayne Heard (born March 24, 1966, in
West Point, Mississippi ) 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 m . He did so on 7 July 1986 at a meet in
Moscow ,
Soviet Union , clocking 20.12s. A year later he won the title in the men's 200 m at the
1987 Pan American Games .
Heard's personal best for the 200 m was 19.88 seconds, set at the
U.S. Olympic Trials in
Sacramento on 23 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.
Background
Heard attended
John Marshall High School in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (graduating 1985) and
Texas A&M .
[1] While at A&M, Heard worked with world-renowned conditioning coach
Istvan Javorek .
Floyd Heard also owns the American record as part of the
Santa Monica Track Club 's scorching performance of 1:18.68 in 1994 in the
4 × 200 m relay run, set at the
Mt. SAC Relays . His teammates in that race were
Mike Marsh ,
Leroy Burrell , and
Carl Lewis .
References
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1959:
Italy (
De Murtas ,
Giannone ,
Mazza ,
Berruti )
1961:
Soviet Union (
Mikhailov ,
Ozolin ,
Bartenev ,
Chistyakov )
1963:
Hungary (
Csutorás ,
Rábai ,
Gyulai ,
Mihályfi )
1965:
West Germany (
Obersiebrasse ,
Metz ,
Felsen ,
Sundermann )
1967:
Italy (
Giani ,
Preatoni ,
Roscio ,
Berruti )
1970:
Poland (
Wagner ,
Werner ,
Gramse ,
Nowosz )
1973:
United States (
Brown ,
Riddick ,
Whatley ,
Gilbreath )
1975:
Soviet Union (
Zhidkikh ,
Silovs ,
Kolesnikov ,
Vladimirtsev )
1977:
Soviet Union (
Kolesnikov ,
Aksinin ,
Silovs ,
Ignatenko )
1979:
Italy (
Caravani ,
Grazioli ,
Lazzer ,
Mennea )
1981:
United States (
Lattany ,
Ketchum ,
Grimes ,
Smith )
1983:
United States (
Scott ,
Graddy ,
Robinson ,
Gault )
1985:
Cuba (
Querol ,
Simón ,
Chacón ,
Peñalver )
1987:
United States (
McRae ,
Heard ,
Daniel ,
Spearmon )
1989:
United States (
Watkins ,
Dees ,
Cason ,
Marsh )
1991:
United States (
Drummond ,
Goins ,
Bates ,
Trapp )
1993:
United States (
Bridgewater ,
Oaks ,
Miller ,
Jefferson )
1995:
United States (
Bowen ,
Oaks ,
Hargraves ,
Dopek )
1997:
United States (
Howard ,
Henderson ,
Carter ,
McCall )
1999:
United States (
Conwright ,
Trammell ,
Miller ,
Capel )
2001:
Japan (
Kawabata ,
Nara ,
Omae ,
Okusako )
2003:
Japan (
Ishikura ,
Takahira ,
Yoshino ,
Arai )
2005:
Italy (
Verdecchia ,
Rocco ,
Donati ,
Anceschi )
2007:
Thailand (
Autas ,
Sondee ,
Suwannarangsri ,
Suwonprateep )
2009:
Russia (
Mokrousov ,
Teplykh ,
Smirnov ,
Petryashov )
2011:
South Africa (
Dreyer ,
Magakwe ,
Sefanyetso ,
Mpuang )
2013:
Ukraine (
Perestiuk ,
Smelyk ,
Bodrov ,
Korzh )
2015:
Japan (
Ōseto ,
Nagata ,
Suwa ,
Taniguchi )
2017:
Japan (
Tanaka ,
Tada ,
Kitagawa ,
Yamashita )
2019:
Japan (
Miyamoto ,
Someya ,
Yamashita ,
Dede )
2021:
China (
Chen Jiapeng ,
Chen Guanfeng ,
Yan Haibin ,
Deng Zhijian )
1876–1878New York Athletic Club 1879–1888NAAAA 1888–1979Amateur Athletic Union 1980–1992The Athletics Congress 1993–onwardsUSA Track & Field Notes
Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships
OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic .
*USA: Leading American athlete
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