Chris Huffins

Personal information

Full name

Christopher Allen Huffins

Born

April 15, 1970 (age 46)
Brooklyn, New York

Height

6 ft 2 ¹⁄₂ in (189 cm)

Weight

185 lb (84 kg)

Medal record

Men's Athletics
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	Decathlon
World Championships
	1999 Seville	Decathlon
Goodwill Games
	1998 New York City	Decathlon
Pan American Games
	1999 Winnipeg	Decathlon
USA Championships
	1995	Decathlon
	1997	Decathlon
	1998	Decathlon
	1999	Decathlon
U.S. Olympic Trials
	1996	Decathlon
NCAA Championships
	1993	Decathlon

Chris Huffins (born 15 April 1970) is an athlete from the United States who competed in the field of Decathlon. He was the Director and Head Coach of the Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country programs at the University of California from 2002 to 2007. He married Monique Parker in 1997 with whom he had one son Zachary. He earned a degree from the University of California in Political Economies of Industrial Societies in 2007. Huffins is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He is currently married to Tamika Huffins with whom he had another son, Jaxon.

Chris Huffins first became interested in decathlon while a student at the University of California. Sidelined with a broken toe, he watched other students performing decathlon and decided that that was the sport for him. Before becoming a decathlete, Chris Huffins was also a basketball player, sprinter, and long jumper.

As a decathlete, Huffins acquired a reputation as a fast starter but a slow finisher, prone to surging ahead on the first day of the competition, but fading on the second day. Huffins denied this accusation, saying that it was an accident of ordering because his two weakest events (javelin, 1500m run) happened to be the final two events of the decathlon.

Huffins holds the heptathlon world best in the 60 m dash with a time of 6.61 seconds.

Leading into the Sydney Games, Huffins established himself as one of the best decathletes in the world. In 1998, he finished second in the Goodwill Games, and in 1999, Huffins won the Pan American Games and finished third at the 1999 World Championships in the decathlon. At the 2000 USA Olympic trials, Huffins finished second behind Tom Pappas and ahead of Kip Janvrin, his future teammates at Sydney.

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