Christian Coleman

Christian Coleman is honestly one of the most electrifying sprinters of his generation, and I don't think he gets nearly enough credit for it. Growing up in Atlanta and grinding his way through Tennessee, he showed up on the world stage and just dominated — winning The Bowerman in 2017 as the best collegiate track athlete in the country, then going on to become the 2019 World Champion in the 100 meters. His 9.76 personal best puts him in a truly rarefied group of humans. What gets me is that he's only 175 cm — not the towering build you'd stereotypically picture — but his start is absolutely lethal, like a coiled spring that nobody's managed to engineer better. There's a purity to what he does: no gimmicks, no theatrics, just relentless forward motion in under ten seconds.

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Name (English)

Christian Coleman

Name (Japanese)

クリスチャン・コールマン

Reading

くりすちゃん・こーるまん

Born

March 6, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Height

175 cm

Occupation

sprinter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

High school

Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School

University

University of Tennessee

Awards & achievements

• 2017 The Bowerman

• Official sitehttps://coleman.run/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_coleman2/
• Xhttps://x.com/__coleman
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Coleman
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25350184

Tags

• Georgia
• sprinter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.