Jeff Williams (sprinter)

Jeff Williams
Personal information
Full nameJeffrey Williams
BornDecember 31, 1965 (1965-12-31) (age 58)
Los Angeles, U.S.
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the  United States
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Havana 100 m
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Gothenburg 200 m

Jeffrey "Jeff" Williams (born December 31, 1965) is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 200-meter dash. He was the bronze medalist at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and reached the 200 m final at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He set an American record in the 200 m indoors in 1996.

He was a late bloomer and attended his first world championship competition at the age of 29.[1] Williams was unusual for an elite male runner at the time in that he had a female coach: 1968 Olympic gold medallist Barbara Ferrell.[2]

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