Dwight Phillips

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Medal record
Dwight Phillips
Men’s athletics
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens	Long jump
World Championships
Gold	2003 Paris	Long jump
Gold	2005 Helsinki	Long jump
Bronze	2007 Osaka	Long jump

Phillips in Helsinki at the GE Money Grand Prix in July 2005, celebrating after his first jump (8.44 meters) which also won him the competition.

Dwight Phillips (born October 1, 1977 in Decatur, Georgia) is an American athlete who specializes in the long jump.

Dwight was a promising sprinter in his early days but concentrated on the triple jump while at University of Kentucky before switching to the long jump after moving to Arizona State University in 2000.

He hit the big time in 2003 when he won both the IAAF indoor and outdoor World Championships. The indoor championship title was a close run thing with Phillips only beating Spain's Yago Lamela by a single centimeter. The outdoor title was a relatively simple affair with a winning margin of 4 centimeters over James Beckford of Jamaica.

In the run up to the 2004 Summer Olympics to be held in Athens, Phillips was ranked number 1 in the world, and he won the gold medal by a margin of 12 cm over his compatriot John Moffitt. His winning jump of 8.59 m was the fourth biggest in Olympic history, after Bob Beamon (1968) and Carl Lewis (1988, 1992).^[1]

His personal best jump is 8.60 metres, first achieved in August 2004 in Linz.

[edit] Achievements

[edit] References

• IAAF profile for Dwight Phillips
• Dwight Phillips' U.S. Olympic Team bio

1. ^ Olympic Games Medallists - Athletics (Men) - GBR Athletics

[edit] External links

• Official website

Sporting positions
Preceded by Yago Lamela	Men's Long Jump Best Year Performance 2004 — 2005	Succeeded by Irving Saladino