Debbie Dunn

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Debbie Dunn
Debbie Dunn on her way to victory during the 2010 World Indoor Championships
Medal record
Women's athletics
Competitor for the United States
World Championships
Gold 2009 Berlin 4x400 m relay
World Indoor Championships
Gold 2010 Doha 400 m
Gold 2010 Doha 4x400 m relay
Silver 2006 Moscow 4x400 m relay
Pan American Games
Bronze 2007 Rio de Janeiro 4x400 m relay
Continental Cup
Silver 2010 Split 400 m

Debbie Dunn (born 26 March 1978) is an American sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres. Originally from Jamaica, she attended Fairmont Heights High School in Maryland, then Norfolk State University,[1] and became an American citizen in 2004.

At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics Dunn set a personal best of 49.95 seconds to qualify for the 400 metres world final. She was a little slower in the final, however, and finished in sixth place. In the 4 x 400 m relay event she finally outpaced everybody, grabbing the gold medal together with teammates Allyson Felix, Lashinda Demus and Sanya Richards.

One year later, at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, Dunn achieved her first major individual victory by becoming 400 metres world indoor champion. She earned a second gold medal for the 4 x 400 m relay, in which the U.S. team consisting of Dunn, DeeDee Trotter, Natasha Hastings and Allyson Felix finished in 3:27.34.

In July 2012, it was announced that she tested positive for a banned substance.[2]

[edit] Personal bests200 metres - 22.73 s (2009)
400 metres - 49.64 s (2010)
[edit] References^ USA Track & Field (2009). "Debbie Dunn". USA Track & Field. http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/Dunn_Debbie.asp. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
^ "Debbie Dunn withdraws from Olympics after positive drugs test". http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18840448. Retrieved 2012-07-14.
[edit] External linksIAAF profile for Debbie Dunn
[show]v t e World Indoor Champions in Women's 400 m

1985: Diane Dixon (USA) 1987: Sabine Busch (GDR) 1989: Helga Arendt (GDR) 1991: Diane Dixon (USA) 1993: Sandie Richards (JAM) 1995: Irina Privalova (RUS) 1997: Jearl Miles Clark (USA) 1999: Grit Breuer (GER) 2001: Sandie Richards (JAM) 2003 – 2004: Natalya Nazarova (RUS) 2006: Olesya Forsheva (RUS) 2008: Olesya Zykina (RUS) 2010: Debbie Dunn (USA) 2012: Sanya Richards-Ross (USA)

[show]v t e World Indoor Champions in Women's 4×400 m Relay

1991: Germany (Seuser, Schreiter, Hesselbarth, Breuer) 1993: Jamaica (Hemmings, Grant, Rattray-Williams, Richards) 1995: Russia (Chebykina, Ruzina, Kulikova, Goncharenko) 1997: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Alekseyeva) 1999: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Nazarova) 2001: Russia (Nosova, Zykina, Sotnikova, Kotlyarova) 2003: Russia (Antyukh, Pechonkina, Zykina, Nazarova) 2004: Russia (Krasnomovets, Kotlyarova, Levina, Nazarova) 2006: Russia (Levina, Nazarova, Krasnomovets, Antyukh) 2008: Russia (Gushchina, Levina, Nazarova, Zykina) 2010: United States (Dunn, Trotter, Hastings, Felix) 2012: Great Britain (Cox, Sanders, Ohuruogu, Shakes-Drayton)

[show]v t e IAAF World / Continental Cup Champions in Women's 4 x 400 m relay

1977: East Germany (Popp, Krug, Brehmer, Koch) 1979: East Germany (Kotte, Brehmer, Köhn, Koch) 1981: East Germany (Rübsam, Steuk, Wöckel, Koch) 1985: East Germany (Emmelmann, Busch, Neubauer, Koch) 1989: Americas (Crooks, Davis, Jackson, Quirot) 1992: Americas (Edeh, Crooks, Carabali, Restrepo) 1994: Great Btitain (Smith, Keough, Neef, Gunnell) 1998: Germany (Feller, Rohländer, Urbansky, Breuer) 2002: Americas (Richards, Pernía, Amertil, Guevara) 2006: Americas (S. Williams, Darling, Amertil, N. Williams) 2010: Americas (Williams, Dunn, Wilson, Amertil)