Tyson Gay on the track in Berlin and his birthday

When Tyson Gay set out for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, his goal was to bring home three medals. He brought home three gold medals. Dominating the 100m, 200m and 4x100m…
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When Tyson Gay set out for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, his goal was to bring home three medals. He brought home three gold medals. Dominating the 100m, 200m and 4x100m…
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When Tyson Gay set out for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, his goal was to bring home three medals. He brought home three gold medals.

Dominating the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relays, Gay joined Marita Koch, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene and Allyson Felix as the only athletes in history to win triple gold medals at a single World Championship competition.

The Adidas-sponsored American sprinter won the 100m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2004, achieving a time of 10.06. Gay was placed second on the world statistic map when he ran a 19.93-second 200m event in 2005. His performance has done nothing but improve over time. He shaved his 200m run to 19.68 seconds in 2006 and whittled down his 100m to a 9.84-second art. His unofficial halfway mark in the 200m race earned him the fastest world recording since Michael Johnson’s 1996 Olympic performance in Atlanta, Georgia.

By the end of 2006, IAAF ranked Gay second in the world in the 100m and 200m race, and all-time lists awarded him fourth for the 100m and 200m.

In 2008, Gay failed to reach the finals in the 100m at the Olympics in Beijing, China. Finishing a disappointing 5th, out of lane 9. Gay, who had been nursing a hamstring injury suffered in July 2008, at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon failed to run a several European races leading up the Olympics because of his hamstring injury.