- Debbie Dunn
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Medal record 
Debbie Dunn on her way to victory during the 2010 World Indoor ChampionshipsWomen's athletics Competitor for the 
United StatesWorld Championships Gold 2009 Berlin 4x400 m relay World Indoor Championships Gold 2010 Doha 400 m Gold 2010 Doha 4x400 m relay Silver 2006 Moscow 4x400 m relay Pan American Games Bronze 2007 Rio de Janeiro 4x400 m relay Continental Cup Silver 2010 Split 400 m Debbie Dunn (born 26 March 1978) is an American sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres. Originally from Jamaica, she attended Fairmont Heights High School in Maryland, then Norfolk State University,[1] and became an American citizen in 2004.
At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics Dunn set a personal best of 49.95 seconds to qualify for the 400 metres world final. She was a little slower in the final, however, and finished in sixth place. In the 4 x 400 m relay event she finally outpaced everybody, grabbing the gold medal together with teammates Allyson Felix, Lashinda Demus and Sanya Richards.
One year later, at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, Dunn achieved her first major individual victory by becoming 400 metres world indoor champion. She earned a second gold medal for the 4 x 400 m relay, in which the U.S. team consisting of Dunn, DeeDee Trotter, Natasha Hastings and Allyson Felix finished in 3:27.34.
Personal bests
- 200 metres - 22.73 s (2009)
- 400 metres - 49.64 s (2010)
References
- ^ USA Track & Field (2009). "Debbie Dunn". USA Track & Field. http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/Dunn_Debbie.asp. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
- IAAF profile for Debbie Dunn
1985: Diane Dixon (USA) • 1987: Sabine Busch (GDR) • 1989: Helga Arendt (GDR) • 1991: Diane Dixon (USA) • 1993: Sandie Richards (JAM) • 1995: Irina Privalova (RUS) • 1997: Jearl Miles Clark (USA) • 1999: Grit Breuer (GER) • 2001: Sandie Richards (JAM) • 2003 – 2004: Natalya Nazarova (RUS) • 2006: Olesya Forsheva (RUS) • 2008: Olesya Zykina (RUS) • 2010: Debbie Dunn (USA)
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)
1977: East Germany (Popp, Krug, Brehmer, Koch) • 1979: East Germany (Kotte, Brehmer, Köhn, Koch) • 1981: East Germany (Rübsam, Steuk, Wöckel, Koch) • 1985: East Germany (Emmelmann, Busch, Neubauer, Koch) • 1989: Americas (Crooks, Davis, Jackson, Quirot) • 1992: Americas (Edeh, Crooks, Carabali, Restrepo) • 1994: Great Btitain (Smith, Keough, Neef, Gunnell) • 1998: Germany (Feller, Rohländer, Urbansky, Breuer) • 2002: Americas (Richards, Pernía, Amertil, Guevara) • 2006: Americas (S. Williams, Darling, Amertil, N. Williams) • 2010: Americas (Williams, Dunn, Wilson, Amertil)
Categories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- American sprinters
- American people of Jamaican descent
- Jamaican sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Norfolk State University alumni
- American sprinter stubs
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