Cliff Wiley
| Achievements and titles | |
|---|---|
| Personal best(s) |
100 m: 10.21 s (Lawrence, USA; 23/04/1977) |
100 m: 10.21 s (Lawrence, USA; 23/04/1977)
200 m: 20.39 s (Zurich, SWI; 15/08/1979)
400 m: 44.70 s (Sacramento, USA; 21/06/1981)
4x100 m;38.03 s WR (Düsseldorf, GER; 03/09/1997)
Clifford 'Cliff' Wiley (born May 21, 1955) is a former American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprints events during his career. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 1981 Athletics World Cup in Rome and the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas.
Wiley originally competed at the 100 and 200 m events but later moved up to compete more successfully at the 400 m. A two-time USA National Champion at 400m, in 1981 and 1982, Wiley set his personal best (44.70) in the 400 metres on 21 June 1981 in Sacramento. Wiley competed for his college, the University of Kansas, in the short sprints but did run 400 m relay legs, and it was his success at the latter that led his track coach, Bob Timmons, to believe this would be his best event.
He was also a world record holder in the 4x100-meter relay (Bill Collins-Steve Riddick-Cliff Wiley-Steve Williams), as part of the winning USA team at the 1977 Athletics World Cup with a time of 38.03 s – an event statistician Mark Butler for the IAAF puts in his top 10 men's World Cup moments.
In 1979, Wiley was a member of the winning 4 × 100 m United States relay team at the 1979 Pan American Games
In 1983, Wiley became United States champion indoors at 440 y.
Wiley never ran in the Olympics. Having qualified as second in the 200 m at the US Olympic Trials in 1980, he was denied participation at the 1980 Moscow Olympics because of the USA boycott. In 1984, a contender in the 400 m, his chances at the Olympic Trials were ruined by injury, he could only reach the quarter-final stage. He had also run in the 1976 Olympic Trials in the 100 and 200m reaching the quarter-final stage at both events.
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