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Angelo Taylor
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1978-12-29 ) December 29, 1978 (age 47) , Albany, Georgia , U.S.
- Height
- 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
- Weight
- 185 lb (84 kg)
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 400 m Hurdles , 4 × 400 m Relay
- College team
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Angelo
- Family name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Albany
- Occupation
- sprinter
- Participant in
- 2000 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Member of team
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 84
- Image
- Taylor in blue-cropped.jpg
- Height
- 188
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- date of birth
- 1978-12-29
- Commons category
- Angelo Taylor
- sports discipline competed in
- sprinting
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
- end of work period
- 2012-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Angelo F. Taylor (born December 29, 1978) is an American track and field athlete, winner of 400-meter hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics. His personal record for the hurdles event is 47.25 seconds. His time puts him in a tie with Félix Sánchez for the #14 performer of all time. Sánchez also won two Olympic gold medals, in 2004 between Taylor's two golds and 2012, immediately following. Taylor also has a 400-meter dash best of 44.05 seconds, ranking him as the joint 29th performer of all time. He won the bronze medal in the 400 m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.
He is a three-time world champion in the 4 × 400 m relay with the United States (2007, 2009 and 2011), and was also a relay gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver medalist at the 2012 London Olympics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angelo Taylor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.