CHRISTIAN COLEMAN
CHRISTIAN COLEMAN Time Collegiate History Indoor Rank 60m 6.45 t-1st 200m 20.11 2nd Outdoor 100m 9.82 200m 19.85
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Coleman is the only person in track & field history on all four men’s sprinting collegiate top-10 lists. BREAKING OUTDOOR RECORDS • At the NCAA Championship, Christian Coleman won the outdoor double (100m, 200m) as he claimed the 100m in a time of 10.04 (-2.1) and then followed that up with a 200m time of 20.25 (-3.1) despite running into a severe headwind. • He became the 25th collegian to win the outdoor double (100m, 200m), but only the 8th person to do it since 1978. The 24 collegians have accomplished the feat 32 times. • Set the 100m collegiate record in the semifinals of the NCAA Championship as he blazed a time of 9.82 seconds. That places Coleman as the fourth fastest American in history and the ninth-fastest person in world history. He surpassed Ngoni Makusha’s collegiate record of 9.89 by .07 seconds. • Recorded the second fastest 200m in collegiate history and set a Tennessee school record when he recorded a time of 19.85 (-0.5) while running into a headwind at the NCAA East Prelims. That is the fastest 200m in the world this year as he defeated Gatlin’s school record mark of 19.86. • Coleman’s career best marks of 9.82 in the 100m and 19.85 in the 200m rank as some of the best ever recorded. 100m 200m All-Time NCAA Rank 1st 2nd 2017 NCAA Rank 1st 1st 2017 World Rank 1st 2nd Tennessee Rank 1st 1st UT NCAA Titles 6 4 UT NCAA Titles Rank 2nd t-3rd • Posted 100m times of 9.96 (+1.7) and 9.98 (-0.2) at the NCAA East Prelims. There have only been eight wind-legal times posted by a collegian under 10 seconds in the 100m, and Coleman has done it four times. • Coleman has two of the three 200m times under 20 seconds that have been recorded by a collegian this year. • Became the first person in collegiate history to run wind-legal times under 10 seconds in the 100m and under 20 seconds in the 200m on the same day as he posted times of 9.97 and 19.98 at the SEC Championship. • Recorded five 100m times under 10 seconds regardless of wind as he posted a time of 9.93 (+3.2) at the SEC Relays. • Undefeated in all individual event finals during the 2017 outdoor track and field season.
THE DOUBLE-DOUBLE • By winning the 100m and 200m National Championships, Coleman become only the second sprinter ever to sweep the national championships in the 60m & 200m indoor and the 100m and 200m outdoor (Justin Gatlin, Tennessee, 2002). • Coleman is the only person in track & field history to appear on all four sprinting collegiate top-10 lists, only one other person has even appeared on three (Walter Dix, Florida State). 2017 AWARDS • 2017 NCAA Outdoor Champion - 100m & 200m • 2017 NCAA Indoor Champion - 60m & 200m • 2017 SEC Outdoor Champion - 100m & 200m • 2017 SEC Indoor Champion - 60m • First-Team Outdoor All-American - 100m & 200m • First-Team Indoor All-American - 60m & 200m • All-SEC Outdoor First Team • All-SEC Indoor First Team • 2017 SEC Outdoor Runner of the Year • 2017 SEC Commissioner’s Trophy (High Point Scorer at SEC Outdoor Championship) • USTFCCCA National Indoor Runner of the Year • USTFCCCA South Region Indoor Runner of the Year • USTFCCCA South Region Outdoor Runner of the Year • 2017 Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Amateur Athlete of the Year • 5x SEC Runner of the Week • USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (2/7, 5/16) • Bowerman Watch List (All 8 watch lists of 2017) INTERNATIONAL • Ran the second leg for Team USA in the 4x100m relay qualifying as the team won their heat with a time of 37.65 at the 2016 Rio Olympics. • Competed in 2016 men’s U.S. Trials recording 9.96 (+2.4) in the first round, 9.95 (+1.7) in semifinals and 10.06 (+1.6) in the Final. • Recorded a PR in the men’s 100m with a time of 9.95 (+1.7) at 2016 U.S. Trials. 100M TOP-10 All-TIME 1. Usain Bolt - 9.58 2. Tyson Gay - 9.69* Yohan Blake - 9.69 4. Asafa Powell - 9.72 5. Justin Gatlin - 9.74* 6. Nesta Carter - 9.78 7. Maurice Greene - 9.79* 8. Steve Mullings - 9.80 9. Christian Coleman - 9.82* Richard Thompson - 9.82 * - American
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HISTORIC INDOOR SEASON Christian Coleman completed one of the most dominant track meets in collegiate history when he won two national championships with times of 6.45 in the 60m and 20.11 in the 200m. Those times rank among the best all-time. 60m 200m All-Time World Rank (person) t-6th 3rd All-Time World Rank (time) t-14th 4th 2017 World Rank t-1st 1st All-Time NCAA Rank t-1st 2nd 2017 NCAA Rank 1st 1st Tennessee Rank 1st 1st Coleman NCAA Titles 1 2 Coleman SEC Titles 2 0 UT NCAA Titles 3 4 UT NCAA Titles Rank t-1st t-1st • Coleman is the only male student-athlete in collegiate history to have all-time top 10 marks in both the 60m and 200m dashes. • He is the third person in the past 30 years and the first in the past 15 years to win both the 60m and 200m National Championships following. Justin Gatlin (2002) and Kim Collins (2001). Tennessee has two student-athletes who have accomplished the feat while every other team in the NCAA combined has done it once. • Coleman is the eighth student-athlete since 1988 to win back-to-back titles in the indoor 200m. (Ameer Webb, Walter Dix, Leo Bookman, Shawn Crawford, Obadele Thompson, Chris Nellons, Michael Johnson) • Coleman has 20 career points in the 200m, tied for the seventh-most points all-time in the 200m. • Won the SEC Championship in the 60m (6.52) and finished second in the 200m dash (20.50). • First in the IAAF World rankings during the 2017 season in the 60m and 200m dashes • Did not lose a 60m race all season and posted marks 6.56 or under on seven occasions. The rest of the student-athletes in NCAA Division I posted marks under 6.56 three times. • Three 200m times in the world’s top 10 of 2017. • Has posted three of the top five 60m times in the world during the 2017 season. • Coleman’s .09 second margin of victory in the 60m NCAA Championship is the largest margin of victory in NCAA Meet history.
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Coleman is the only person in track & field history on all four men’s sprinting collegiate top-10 lists. BREAKING OUTDOOR RECORDS • At the NCAA Championship, Christian Coleman won the outdoor double (100m, 200m) as he claimed the 100m in a time of 10.04 (-2.1) and then followed that up with a 200m time of 20.25 (-3.1) despite running into a severe headwind. • He became the 25th collegian to win the outdoor double (100m, 200m), but only the 8th person to do it since 1978. The 24 collegians have accomplished the feat 32 times. • Set the 100m collegiate record in the semifinals of the NCAA Championship as he blazed a time of 9.82 seconds. That places Coleman as the fourth fastest American in history and the ninth-fastest person in world history. He surpassed Ngoni Makusha’s collegiate record of 9.89 by .07 seconds. • Recorded the second fastest 200m in collegiate history and set a Tennessee school record when he recorded a time of 19.85 (-0.5) while running into a headwind at the NCAA East Prelims. That is the fastest 200m in the world this year as he defeated Gatlin’s school record mark of 19.86. • Coleman’s career best marks of 9.82 in the 100m and 19.85 in the 200m rank as some of the best ever recorded. 100m 200m All-Time NCAA Rank 1st 2nd 2017 NCAA Rank 1st 1st 2017 World Rank 1st 2nd Tennessee Rank 1st 1st UT NCAA Titles 6 4 UT NCAA Titles Rank 2nd t-3rd • Posted 100m times of 9.96 (+1.7) and 9.98 (-0.2) at the NCAA East Prelims. There have only been eight wind-legal times posted by a collegian under 10 seconds in the 100m, and Coleman has done it four times. • Coleman has two of the three 200m times under 20 seconds that have been recorded by a collegian this year. • Became the first person in collegiate history to run wind-legal times under 10 seconds in the 100m and under 20 seconds in the 200m on the same day as he posted times of 9.97 and 19.98 at the SEC Championship. • Recorded five 100m times under 10 seconds regardless of wind as he posted a time of 9.93 (+3.2) at the SEC Relays. • Undefeated in all individual event finals during the 2017 outdoor track and field season.
THE DOUBLE-DOUBLE • By winning the 100m and 200m National Championships, Coleman become only the second sprinter ever to sweep the national championships in the 60m & 200m indoor and the 100m and 200m outdoor (Justin Gatlin, Tennessee, 2002). • Coleman is the only person in track & field history to appear on all four sprinting collegiate top-10 lists, only one other person has even appeared on three (Walter Dix, Florida State). 2017 AWARDS • 2017 NCAA Outdoor Champion - 100m & 200m • 2017 NCAA Indoor Champion - 60m & 200m • 2017 SEC Outdoor Champion - 100m & 200m • 2017 SEC Indoor Champion - 60m • First-Team Outdoor All-American - 100m & 200m • First-Team Indoor All-American - 60m & 200m • All-SEC Outdoor First Team • All-SEC Indoor First Team • 2017 SEC Outdoor Runner of the Year • 2017 SEC Commissioner’s Trophy (High Point Scorer at SEC Outdoor Championship) • USTFCCCA National Indoor Runner of the Year • USTFCCCA South Region Indoor Runner of the Year • USTFCCCA South Region Outdoor Runner of the Year • 2017 Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Amateur Athlete of the Year • 5x SEC Runner of the Week • USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (2/7, 5/16) • Bowerman Watch List (All 8 watch lists of 2017) INTERNATIONAL • Ran the second leg for Team USA in the 4x100m relay qualifying as the team won their heat with a time of 37.65 at the 2016 Rio Olympics. • Competed in 2016 men’s U.S. Trials recording 9.96 (+2.4) in the first round, 9.95 (+1.7) in semifinals and 10.06 (+1.6) in the Final. • Recorded a PR in the men’s 100m with a time of 9.95 (+1.7) at 2016 U.S. Trials. 100M TOP-10 All-TIME 1. Usain Bolt - 9.58 2. Tyson Gay - 9.69* Yohan Blake - 9.69 4. Asafa Powell - 9.72 5. Justin Gatlin - 9.74* 6. Nesta Carter - 9.78 7. Maurice Greene - 9.79* 8. Steve Mullings - 9.80 9. Christian Coleman - 9.82* Richard Thompson - 9.82 * - American
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HISTORIC INDOOR SEASON Christian Coleman completed one of the most dominant track meets in collegiate history when he won two national championships with times of 6.45 in the 60m and 20.11 in the 200m. Those times rank among the best all-time. 60m 200m All-Time World Rank (person) t-6th 3rd All-Time World Rank (time) t-14th 4th 2017 World Rank t-1st 1st All-Time NCAA Rank t-1st 2nd 2017 NCAA Rank 1st 1st Tennessee Rank 1st 1st Coleman NCAA Titles 1 2 Coleman SEC Titles 2 0 UT NCAA Titles 3 4 UT NCAA Titles Rank t-1st t-1st • Coleman is the only male student-athlete in collegiate history to have all-time top 10 marks in both the 60m and 200m dashes. • He is the third person in the past 30 years and the first in the past 15 years to win both the 60m and 200m National Championships following. Justin Gatlin (2002) and Kim Collins (2001). Tennessee has two student-athletes who have accomplished the feat while every other team in the NCAA combined has done it once. • Coleman is the eighth student-athlete since 1988 to win back-to-back titles in the indoor 200m. (Ameer Webb, Walter Dix, Leo Bookman, Shawn Crawford, Obadele Thompson, Chris Nellons, Michael Johnson) • Coleman has 20 career points in the 200m, tied for the seventh-most points all-time in the 200m. • Won the SEC Championship in the 60m (6.52) and finished second in the 200m dash (20.50). • First in the IAAF World rankings during the 2017 season in the 60m and 200m dashes • Did not lose a 60m race all season and posted marks 6.56 or under on seven occasions. The rest of the student-athletes in NCAA Division I posted marks under 6.56 three times. • Three 200m times in the world’s top 10 of 2017. • Has posted three of the top five 60m times in the world during the 2017 season. • Coleman’s .09 second margin of victory in the 60m NCAA Championship is the largest margin of victory in NCAA Meet history.
