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American track and field athlete

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Angelo Taylor is a male American sprinter who competed in athletics for the United States. Born on December 29, 1978, in Albany, he stands 188 centimeters tall and weighs 84 kilograms. Taylor was educated at Georgia Tech, where he was a member of the Yellow Jackets sports team. His professional career spanned from 1996 to 2012.

During his athletic career, Taylor participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. While primarily recognized as a sprinter, records also list an author named Angelo J. Taylor with a work titled *Wow! Top 50 Gluten-Free Recipes Volume 7*. Additionally, a musical artist by the same name has been associated with genres such as alternative pop and americana, though this entity is identified as female in some databases.

Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1989-12-13
2000s2010s2020salternative popamericanaartist of the decade

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,834
Total plays
23,408

Tags

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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

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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
Country for sport
United States
Mass
84
Image
Taylor in blue-cropped.jpg
Height
188
Show 5 more facts
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
Sources (5)

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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.