Shawn Crawford

Crawford's career sticks with me because of how fate kept testing him. The 200m gold in Athens was emphatic, but the Beijing silver came only after the second and third finishers were disqualified, turning a fourth place into a medal. Most would simply take the luck and run, yet what I admire is the resilience of a Clemson sprinter who kept landing on the podium across two Games. Sprinting is a cruel, hundredth-of-a-second world where chance is part of the equation, and surviving it twice over is no accident. To me, back-to-back Olympic medals are proof of the genuine article.

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Name (English)

Shawn Crawford

Name (Japanese)

ショーン・クロフォード

Reading

しょーん・くろふぉーど

Born

January 14, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

Van Wyck, South Carolina, United States

Height

181 cm

Occupation

sprinter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Horse

University

Clemson University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Crawford
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9075

Tags

• South Carolina
• sprinter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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