US sprinter Fred Kerley (© Getty Images)
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| Sprint star: | Fred Kerley |
| Country: | United States |
| Born: | 7 May 1995 |
| Disciplines: | 100m, 200m, 4x100m |
| PBs: | 100m - 9.76, 200m - 19.76, 400m - 43.64 |
| Honours: | 3 x world champion, 1 x Olympic silver medallist, 1 x world silver medallist, 1 x world indoor silver medallist, 2 x Diamond League title winner |
Like his SPRINT co-star Shericka Jackson, Fred Kerley is a versatile sprinting talent.
The first man in history to have won Wanda Diamond League races in the 100m, 200m and 400m, USA’s Kerley became the world 100m champion on home soil in Oregon in 2022, three years on from claiming world 400m bronze in Doha.
In the meantime, he claimed Olympic 100m silver in Tokyo and ended that 2021 season with a 19.76 200m at altitude in Nairobi.
With respective 100m, 200m and 400m PBs of 9.76, 19.76 and 43.64, Kerley is a member of the exclusive sub-10, sub-20, sub-44 second club.
“Both of them got to give and take,” Kerley said when comparing the 100m and 400m in a 2022 interview. “One got your head spinning and one got your legs spinning, too.”
He has focused on the 100m in recent years and that’s the discipline he’ll contest at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
There his rivals will include another of his fellow SPRINT stars: Noah Lyles.
And Kerley isn’t one to shy away from a rivalry.
“Hey, I like to compete, so rivalry’s rivalry,” he has said. “I feel like it’s very important to have a rivalry in the sport because that’s what’s going to get more attention to track and field— like football and basketball. They’ve got rivalries. But if we have rivalries between us, we’re going to be big.”
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