Kim Batten (Florida State)

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Kim Batten Medal record[hide]Women’s Athletics
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Silver 1996 Atlanta 400m hurdles
World Championships
Gold 1995 Gothenburg 400 m hurdles
Silver 1997 Athens 4x400 m relay
Bronze 1997 Athens 400 m hurdles
Pan American Games
Gold 1995 Mar del Plata 400 m hurdles

Kim Batten (born 29 March 1969 in McRae, Georgia, U.S.) is a retired female American 400 meter hurdles champion. She was the 1995 world record holder in the women's 400-meter hurdles. Batten graduated from the Florida State University in 1991, the same year she won her first national championship - the U.S. National Championships, the first of six national championships (1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998).

Batten is 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall.

Batten's finest year came in 1995, when she won Gold in the World Athletics Championships breaking the World Record for the 400m Hurdles in a time of 52.61 seconds. Batten also came first in the Pan American Games and first in the national indoor championships.

In 1996 she won silver in the 1996 Olympic Games and in 1997 won bronze in the World Athletics Championships. She was also a member of the 2000 US Olympic track team.

In 1999 an injury to a nerve in her foot caused her to miss most of the season. Batten retired at the end of the 2001 season.

Batten currently resides at Atlanta, GA.

[edit] Records1991 US Outdoor Champion
1994 US Outdoor Champion
1995 US Outdoor Champion
1995 World Champion at Gothenburg, Sweden
1996 Olympic silver medal at Atlanta, Georgia
1996 US Outdoor Champion
1997 US Outdoor Champion
1997 World bronze medal at Athens, Greece
1998 World Cup bronze medal
1998 US Outdoor Champion
[edit] Referenceshttp://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/oldBios/2002/Batten_Kim.asp Kim Batten's athletic record
http://www.uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/at/profile/1550.html Kim Batten's athletic statistics.




Awards
Preceded by
Gwen Torrence Women's Track & Field ESPY Award
1996 Succeeded by
Marie-José Pérec
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Sally Gunnell Women's 400m Hurdles Best Year Performance
1995 Succeeded by
Deon Hemmings
Preceded by
Deon Hemmings Women's 400m Hurdles Best Year Performance
1997 — 1998 Succeeded by
Daimí Pernía
[show]v t e World Champions in Women's 400 m Hurdles

1983: Yekaterina Fesenko (URS) 1987: Sabine Busch (GDR) 1991: Tatyana Ledovskaya (URS) 1993: Sally Gunnell (GBR) 1995: Kim Batten (USA) 1997: Nezha Bidouane (MAR) 1999: Daimí Pernía (CUB) 2001: Nezha Bidouane (MAR) 2003: Jana Pittman (AUS) 2005: Yuliya Pechonkina (RUS) 2007: Jana Rawlinson (AUS) 2009: Melaine Walker (JAM) 2011: Lashinda Demus (USA)

[show]v t e Pan American Champions in Women's 400 m Hurdles

1951 – 1979: not held 1983 – 1987: Judi Brown (USA) 1991: Lency Montelier (CUB) 1995: Kim Batten (USA) 1999: Daimí Pernía (CUB) 2003: Joanna Hayes (USA) 2007: Sheena Johnson (USA) 2011: Princesa Oliveros (COL)

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