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Ivory Williams

Ivory Williams
Manchester City Games 2009 - Men's final 2 (crop2).jpg
Williams (in orange) in the starting blocks for the 150 meters street race. Usain Bolt (in yellow) set a world best of 14.35 seconds.
Personal information
Nationality American
Born (1985-05-02) May 2, 1985 (age 31)
Jefferson County, Texas
Height 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight 170 lb (77 kg)
Sport
Sport Running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)

100m: 9.93
200m: 20.62

400m: 46.25

100m: 9.93
200m: 20.62

Ivory Williams (born May 2, 1985) is an American sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 meters.

Born in Jefferson County, Texas, Williams competed at the 2002 United States Junior Championships, taking bronze in the 200 meters and finishing in fourth place in the 100 m. His first major junior tournament was the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He produced a season's best of 10.29 seconds to win the 100 m event, beating favourite Abidemi Omole. He followed this up with another gold medal in the 4×100 meters relay, setting a junior world record of 38.66 seconds with teammates Omole, Trell Kimmons, and LaShawn Merritt.

In the 2008 season he won the 100 m at the Prefontaine Classic. Shortly after, Williams broke the 10-second barrier for the first time, running a new 100 m personal best of 9.94 seconds in the quarter-finals of the 2008 US Olympic Trials. The time made him the fifth fastest American in the 100 m that year, and ninth in the world rankings. However, he failed to progress beyond the semi-finals: Williams was beaten into fifth place, and out of qualification, by Xavier Carter by just a thousandth of a second.

He ran a personal best of 6.52 seconds in the 60 meters at the 2009 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, reaching the final as the fastest qualifier. However, he was disqualified in the final of the event for a false start. At the USA vs. The World relay competition at the Penn Relays, Williams took second place in 38.36 with the US red team comprising Terrence Trammell, Mark Jelks, and Mike Rodgers.


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