Leroy Russell Burrell (born February 21, 1967 in Philadelphia) - American athlete, sprinter, gold medalist of the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
From 1994, husband of sprinter Michelle Finn [1]. Their son Cameron is also involved in athletics [2].
He was most successful as a member of the American 4 x 100 meter relay race, and individually, he had the greatest achievements at a distance of 100 meters:
silver medal of the World Championship (Tokyo 1991)
1st place at the IAAF Grand Prix Final (London 1993)
Burrell was one of the favorites in the final 100 meters run at the Olympic Games in Barcelona (1992), but he made a false start and had to be more careful when starting again than other sprinters, which resulted in a worse starting reaction and ultimately a 5th position at the finish line (according to the rules of the time, everyone the competitor could make one false start).
Life records
100-meter run - 9.85 s (1994) was a world record, the 14th result in the history of world athletics
200 meter run - 20.12 seconds (1992)
Long jump - 8.37 m (1999)
60 meter indoor run - 6.48 seconds (1991)
Burrell, together with his colleagues from the American team, is the current world record holder in a rarely played competition - the 4 x 200 meter relay (1: 18.68 1994). For 16 years he was the world record holder in the 4 x 100 meter relay (37.40 1992), this record was taken by the Americans only Jamaicans, who ran this distance in 37.10 during the Olympic Games in Beijing (2008).
