Donovan Bailey (innate December 16, 1967) is a Canadian athlete.

Innate within Manchester, Jamaica, Bailey emigrated from Jamaica to Canada at age 13, & played basketball before his graduation. He began competing as a 100m sprinter a share-half-time inside 1991, but he didn't choose higher a sport seriously until 1994. At that period, he was as well the successful stockbroker.

A as a consequence month saw his international breakthrough. At the World Championships inside Gothenburg, Sweden, Bailey won both a Century metre dash & a Little joe 10 Centred metre relay titles.

He repeated that double win at a 1996 Atlanta Olympics, setting a globe record of Niner.84 seconds within a 100m (the former record was placed in July 1994 by U.s. Leroy Burrell at 9.85 seconds). Numbers of Canadians felt his triumph restored a image of American jock, which experienced been tarnished by Ben Johnson's previous disqualified win at a 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Bailey won the third globe title inside 1997 with the American relay team, when finishing 2nd in the 100m behind Maurice Greene.

Around June of 1997 he raced against Michael Johnson in a 150m race at Toronto's Skydome (now Rogers Centre), in the bid to truly determine world health organization was the world's fastest human. He won $2 million for winning that race, where Johnson pulled higher lame at a 100m by using an wounded quadricep muscle.

When that year, Bailey struggled by having injuries & never reached his former level of performance. He retired from either a sport within 2001 having been a 5-period Globe & Olympic champion.

Donovan Bailey however holds a indoor globe record in the Fifty metres (Quintet.56, around Reno, Nevada, in 1996), & a Olympic, Commonwealth and American records for the C metres¹. He has shared a latter title sustaining Bruny Surin since 1999.

He today has his have company known as DBX Sport Management, which assists amateur jock locate how else to promote themselves.

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