My Take
Michael Johnson is one of those athletes who makes you rethink everything you thought you knew about sprinting. That upright, almost rigid running style — chest high, minimal arm swing, feet firing underneath him like a sewing machine — looked wrong the first time you saw it, and then he ran the 200m in 19.32 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and you realized it was everyone else who was wrong. Winning gold in both the 200m and 400m at the same Games is genuinely one of the greatest individual performances in Olympic history, and the fact that he then went to Sydney 2000 and defended his 400m title just underlines how dominant he was over an entire decade. Four Olympic golds, eight World Championship titles, and world records in both events — the man didn't just win races, he rewrote what those distances were supposed to look like.
Overview
Michael Duane Johnson (born September 13, 1967) is an American sprinter who became Olympic Champion four times, and World Champion eight times in the span of his career. He held the world and Olympic records in the 200 m and 400 m, as well as the world record in the indoor 400 m. He also once held the world's best time in the 300 m.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michael Johnson
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・ジョンソン
- Reading
- まいける・じょんそん
- Born
- September 13, 1967 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Goat
- Origin
- Dallas, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 185 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- sprinter / athletics competitor / athlete
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Skyline High School
- University
- Baylor University
Awards & achievements
- 1996 L'Équipe Champion of Champions
- 1996 World Athlete of the Year
- 1999 World Athlete of the Year
- 1996 Associated Press Athlete of the Year
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.