Justin Gatlin

Justin Gatlin fascinates me as one of sprinting's most complicated figures. Olympic 100m champion in 2004, world champion in 2005 and again in 2017, he refused to fade quietly. That 2017 victory over Usain Bolt in Bolt's farewell race was sport at its most dramatic, a veteran seizing the moment everyone assumed belonged to someone else. What I respect most is his durability: returning to the top at 35, running through years of criticism without losing his edge. Whatever the debates around him, Gatlin embodied raw competitive will, and his Brooklyn-born grit kept him relevant long past most sprinters' expiry dates.

Name (English)

Justin Gatlin

Name (Japanese)

ジャスティン・ガトリン

Reading

じゃすてぃん・がとりん

Born

February 10, 1982 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

Origin

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Height

186 cm

Occupation

athletics competitor

High school

Woodham High School

University

University of Tennessee

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Gatlin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1652

Tags

• New York
• athletics competitor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.