- DeeDee Trotter
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Medal record Women's athletics Competitor for the 
United StatesOlympic Games World Championships Gold 2007 Osaka 4x400 m relay World Indoor Championships Gold 2010 Doha 4x400 m relay De'Hashia Tonnek ("DeeDee") Trotter (born December 8, 1982 in Twenty Nine Palms, California) is an American athlete.
She currently lives in Orlando, Florida, and trains at the University of Central Florida under Head Coach and former University Of Tennessee college coach Caryl Smith Gilbert.
In 2007 she won the American (USATF) championship in the 400m in a personal best time of 49.64.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Trotter placed 5th overall in the 400 metres with a personal best time of 50.00s. Trotter was part of the US team which finished first in the 4×400 meters relay. In 2010 Athens 4x400m relay team member Crystal Cox, plead guilty to a doping violation which has put the entire gold medal team at risk of losing their medals. legal proceedings are still in process and no decision has been determined regarding the disqualification of the entire relay.
An NCAA champion, she was the first Tennessee Lady Vol to pursue a professional track and field career before completing her collegiate eligibility.
She is the founder of Test Me I'm Clean, a charity dedicated to combating the abuse of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
Trotter ran in the women's 400 meters race in the 2008 Summer Olympics, but failed to qualify for the finals due to a major knee injury.
References
External links
- IAAF profile for DeeDee Trotter
- DeeDee Trotter Pictures
- DeeDee Trotter's U.S. Olympic Team bio
- Runner's World Interview 6/29/07
Olympic Champions in Women's 4×400 m relay - 1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt)
- 1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer)
- 1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goistchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova)
- 1984: United States (Leatherwood, Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough)
- 1988: Sovie Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina)
- 1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina)
- 1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson)
- 2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson)
- 2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Cox, Robinson)
- 2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
World Indoor Champions in Women's 4×400 m Relay 1991: Germany (Seuser, Schreiter, Hesselbarth, Breuer) • 1993: Jamaica (Hemmings, Grant, Rattray-Williams, Richards) • 1995: Russia (Chebykina, Ruzina, Kulikova, Goncharenko) • 1997: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Alekseyeva) • 1999: Russia (Chebykina, Goncharenko, Kotlyarova, Nazarova) • 2001: Russia (Nosova, Zykina, Sotnikova, Kotlyarova) • 2003: Russia (Antyukh, Pechonkina, Zykina, Nazarova) • 2004: Russia (Krasnomovets, Kotlyarova, Levina, Nazarova) • 2006: Russia (Levina, Nazarova, Krasnomovets, Antyukh) • 2008: Russia (Gushchina, Levina, Nazarova, Zykina) • 2010: United States (Dunn, Trotter, Hastings, Felix)
Categories:- 1982 births
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- People from San Bernardino County, California
- Olympic track and field athletes of the United States
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- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- American track and field athletics Olympic medalist stubs
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