Maurice Greene (born July 23, 1974, in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American athlete. Inside his youth, he participated inside two football and athletics, but at length proved to exist as better in the latter.

Within 1995, Greene took part inside his number 1 major international tournament at the World Championships in Gothenburg, but was eliminated in the Hundred m quarter-finals. His next year wwhen unsatisfying, as he failed to produce a U.s. team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Yet, a below year would exist as his breakthrough. At the World Championships around Athens, Greene won the Centred m title. This marked a beginning of a dominance of especially the One c m by Greene, with success defending his title inside 1999 and 2001, setting the world record at 9.79 (beating a July 1996 record of Donovan Bailey at 9.84) inside 1999 and capturing the Olympic Gold Medal within Sydney 2000. At a 1999 Globe Championships, he also won the 200 m title, a number 1 to win each cases at a World Championships.

Around 2002, Greene lost his Globe Record to fellow Our contries Tim Montgomery, who beat his instance by Nought.01, when Greene himself was wounded & watched a race from either a stands. Montgomery has since admitted to utilizing performance enhancing supplements.

At a 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greene added to his medal tally by using a bronze fallowing finishing third inside his attempt to defend his Centred 1000 title, & a silver when the anchor leg runner on the United States 4x100 m relay team, narrowly denied an additional Olympic Gold per British team, who won by Nought.01 seconds.

As of August 2005, Greene has run 52 sub-10 seconds Century m races, to a higher degree any more sprinter inside history; Ato Boldon (from Trinidad and Tobago) is distant second using Xxviii. [http://www.algonet.se/~pela2/athletics/m_100ok.htm]