Torri Edwards
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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality | United States |
| Born |
January 31, 1977 Fontana, California |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Running |
| Event(s) | 100 meters, 200 meters, |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) |
100 m: 10.78 s 200 m: 22.18 s |
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Medal record
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100 m: 10.78 s
Torri Edwards (born January 31, 1977) is an American sprinter. She competes in 100 and 200 meters, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100-meter relay in 2000. In 2003 she won six medals in major international competitions, including one World Championship gold. Edwards competed in the 100 m at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Edwards states that she began sprinting when she joined her school team in junior high . Edwards was an average sprinter when she attended Pomona High School, with her best state meet finish ever coming her senior year when she was fourth in the 200m. Edwards would then attend the University of Southern California.
That track season, she won the Pac-10 titles in both the 100 m and 200 m for USC.
She states:
"Not until I got to college did I realize that I could be good," Edwards said. "Winning the Pac-10 titles gave me a big boost in confidence, and I found myself setting higher and higher goals."
It later turned out that she had used the banned substance nikethamide. She was banned for two years effective from July 18, 2004, missing the 2004 Summer Olympics. In August 2004, Edwards appealed the ban, and an arbitration panel acknowledged that Edwards "conducted herself with honesty, integrity and character ... she has not sought to gain any improper advantage or to 'cheat' in any way." In November 2005, her two-year ban was shortened to 15 months when the World Anti-Doping Agency downgraded nikethamide infractions to maximum one-year suspensions. The drug had come from pills she had taken at a meet in Martinique to combat a minor illness. Though arbitrators decided Edwards had taken the drug inadvertently, saying in their ruling that she had conducted herself with "honesty, integrity and character," they did not overturn the suspension, because the glucose tablets given to her by her doctor contained a warning for athletes advising that the pills could cause a positive doping test. Therefore, Edwards did not take performance enhancement drugs to improve her performance.
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