American track and field sprinter
LaTasha Colander
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/LaTasha_Colander_Sydney_2000.JPEG/200px-LaTasha_Colander_Sydney_2000.JPEG) LaTasha Colander, Sydney 2000
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Born
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(
1976-08-23
)
(age
47)
Portsmouth, Virginia
, U.S.
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LaTasha Colander
(born August 23, 1976, in
Portsmouth, Virginia
) is a retired
track and field
sprinter who competed internationally for the United States. In 1994, on athletic scholarship, Colander enrolled at, and later graduated from, the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
.
In 1994, in the
100 m hurdles
, Colander was the USA Juniors champion, and placed second in the World Junior Champs. Yet soon, she switched to sprints. In 2000 and 2001, she was the U.S. champion in the
400 m
. In April 2000, her team set the women's world record in the
4 × 200 m relay
, a record standing over 15 years onward.
[1]
In the
2000 Olympics
, Colander won a gold medal in the
4 × 400 m relay
. Upon her teammate
Marion Jones
's 2007 admission of illegal
doping
, the
International Olympic Committee
stripped the whole team's medals; in 2010, however, by a successful appeal, all team members except Jones had their medals restored.
[2]
Colander missed the
2001 World Championships
because of a
quadriceps
injury. In 2003, she switched concentration to the 100 m, and won the 2004
US Olympic Trials
in this shorter event. At the
2005 World Championships
, she placed fifth in the
200 meters
.
In 2000, Colander had established the
LC Treasures Within Foundation
, its mission to strengthen kids, families, and the world through education, sports, and spirituality.
In 2014, Colander was inducted into the
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame
.
Achievements
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- 1972
:
Dagmar Kasling
,
Rita Kuhne
,
Helga Seidler
,
Monika Zehrt
(
GDR
)
- 1976
:
Doris Maletzki
,
Brigitte Rohde
,
Ellen Streidt
,
Christina Brehmer
(
GDR
)
- 1980
:
Tatyana Prorochenko
,
Tatyana Goyshchik
,
Nina Zyuskova
,
Irina Nazarova
(
URS
)
- 1984
:
Lillie Leatherwood
,
Sherri Howard
,
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
,
Chandra Cheeseborough
,
Diane Dixon
,
Denean Howard
(
USA
)
- 1988
:
Tatyana Ledovskaya
,
Olga Nazarova
,
Mariya Pinigina
,
Olha Bryzhina
,
Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova
(
URS
)
- 1992
:
Yelena Ruzina
,
Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova
,
Olga Nazarova
,
Olha Bryzhina
,
Liliya Nurutdinova
,
Marina Shmonina
(
EUN
)
- 1996
:
Rochelle Stevens
,
Maicel Malone-Wallace
,
Kim Graham
,
Jearl Miles
,
Linetta Wilson
(
USA
)
- 2000
:
Jearl Miles Clark
,
Monique Hennagan
,
LaTasha Colander
,
Andrea Anderson
(
USA
)
- 2004
:
DeeDee Trotter
,
Monique Henderson
,
Sanya Richards
,
Monique Hennagan
,
Moushaumi Robinson
(
USA
)
- 2008
:
Mary Wineberg
,
Allyson Felix
,
Monique Henderson
,
Sanya Richards
,
Natasha Hastings
(
USA
)
- 2012
:
DeeDee Trotter
,
Allyson Felix
,
Francena McCorory
,
Sanya Richards-Ross
,
Keshia Baker
,
Diamond Dixon
(
USA
)
- 2016
:
Allyson Felix
,
Phyllis Francis
,
Natasha Hastings
,
Courtney Okolo
,
Taylor Ellis-Watson
,
Francena McCorory
(
USA
)
- 2020
:
Sydney McLaughlin
,
Allyson Felix
,
Dalilah Muhammad
,
Athing Mu
,
Kaylin Whitney
,
Wadeline Jonathas
,
Kendall Ellis
,
Lynna Irby
(
USA
)
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1923?1979
Amateur Athletic Union
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1980?1992
The Athletics Congress
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1993?present
USA Track & Field
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Notes
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- OT
: 1928, 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT
: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
.
- Distance
: The event was over 100 yards until 1927; from 1929 to 1931, 1955, 1957 to 1958, 1961 to 1962, 1965 to 1966, 1969 to 1970 and 1973 to 1974.
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1958?1979
Amateur Athletic Union
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1980?1992
The Athletics Congress
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1993?present
USA Track & Field
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Notes
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- OT
: Since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT
: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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- Distance
:The event was over 440 yards until 1932, 1955, 1957?8, 1961?3, 1965?6, 1969?70 and 1973?4
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