Ato Boldon

Ato Boldon

Ato Boldon at the Sydney 2000 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Trinidad and Tobago
Born	(1973-12-30) 30 December 1973 (age 43) Port of Spain, Trinidad
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Event(s)	100 metres, 200 metres
College team	UCLA
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 9.86 s (Lausanne 1999) 200 m: 19.77 s (Stuttgart 1997)
Medal record Men’s Athletics Representing  Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Games 2000 Sydney 100 m 1996 Atlanta 100 m 1996 Atlanta 200 m 2000 Sydney 200 m World Championships 1997 Athens 200 m 2001 Edmonton 4 × 100 m 1995 Gothenburg 100 m 2001 Edmonton 100 m Pan American Games 2003 Santo Domingo 4 × 100 m Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur 100 m Goodwill Games 1998 New York City 200 m 1998 New York City 100 m World Junior Championships 1992 Seoul 100 m 1992 Seoul 200 m CAC Junior Championships (U20) 1992 Tegucigalpa 100 m 1992 Tegucigalpa 200 m

100 m: 9.86 s (Lausanne 1999)

Ato Jabari Boldon (born 30 December 1973) is a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only three other men in history—Usain Bolt, Frankie Fredericks and Carl Lewis—have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the current Trinidad and Tobago national record holder in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events with times of 5.64, 6.49 and 19.77 seconds respectively. He also held the 100m national record at 9.86, having run it four times, until Richard Thompson ran 9.85 on 13 August 2011. He also holds the Commonwealth Games record in the 100 m.

After retiring from his track career, he was an Opposition Senator in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament, representing the United National Congress from 2006–2007. He is now a ESPN and NBC Sports television broadcast analyst for track and field.

Boldon was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad to a Jamaican mother and Trinidadian father. He attended Fatima College (Secondary School) in Trinidad before leaving for the United States at age fourteen. In December 1989, as a soccer player at Jamaica High School in Queens, New York City, head coach Joe Trupiano noticed his sprinting abilities during a soccer practice session.