Greg Haughton

Greg Haughton
Personal information
Born	10 November 1973 (age 52); Kingston, Jamaica
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Jamaica
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Indoor Championships
Pan American Games
Commonwealth Games
Central American and Caribbean Games
CAC Championships
Goodwill Games
World Junior Championships
CARIFTA Games ; Junior (U20)

Gregory Haughton (born 10 November 1973) is a Jamaican 400 metres runner. He won three Olympic medals, one at the 1996 Summer Olympics and two at the 2000 Summer Olympics. His personal best for the 400 m was 44.56 seconds.

He was coached by Clyde Hart, an individual who also trained world record-holder Michael Johnson. Individually, Haughton was the bronze medallist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and won bronze medals over 400 m at the World Championships in Athletics in 1995 and 2001. He won gold medals at the 2001 Goodwill Games, 1999 Pan American Games, 1993 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics. He was twice NJCAA Champion and a three-time NCAA 400 metres champion. He won five Jamaican national titles in his career.

As a long-standing member of Jamaica's 4 × 400 metres relay team, Haughton was crowned 2004 World Indoor Champion, 1998 Commonwealth Champion, 1999 Pan American Games champion. He won Olympic bronze medals in the relay in 2000 and 1996, as well as four silver medals at the World Championships.

Haughton was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame (1997), George Mason University Hall of Fame (2001), and the Carreras Sports Foundation Male Athlete of the Year (1999–2000). In April 2011 Greg Haughton received the award from the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association for Outstanding Contribution to Track and Field in Jamaica.

Personal bests

Date	Event	Venue	Time
19 May 1996	200 metres	Fairfax, Virginia	20.64
9 August 1995	400 metres	Gothenburg, Sweden	44.56

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Jamaica
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	15th (h)^[1]	400 m	47.73
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:06.58
1993	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Cali, Colombia	1st	400 m	45.35
	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Cali, Colombia	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:02.57
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	6th	400 m	45.63
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	7th	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.44
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	3rd	400 m	44.56
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.88
1996	Summer Olympics	Atlanta, United States	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.42
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	2:56.75
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	2nd^[2]	4 × 400 m relay	3:08.11
1998	Central American and Caribbean Games	Maracaibo, Venezuela	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:03.26
1998	Commonwealth Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1st	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.03
1999	Pan American Games	Winnipeg, Manitoba	1st	400 m	44.59
	Pan American Games	Winnipeg, Manitoba	1st	4 × 400 m relay	2:57.97
	World Championships	Sevilla, Spain	5th	400 m	45.07
	World Championships	Sevilla, Spain	2nd	4 × 400 m relay^[2]	2:59.34
2000	IAAF Grand Prix Final	Doha, Qatar	3rd	400 m	45.85
	Summer Olympics	Sydney, Australia	3rd	400 m	44.70
	Summer Olympics	Sydney, Australia	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	2:58.78
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Alberta	3rd	400 m	44.98
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Alberta	2nd^[2]	4 × 400 m relay	2:58.39
2002	IAAF Grand Prix Final	Paris, France	2nd	400 m	44.87
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:05.21

Notes

↑ Disqualified in the semifinal.
1 2 3 The Jamaica 4 × 400 team won originally the bronze medal, but the USA 4 × 400 team, which originally finished first in 4 × 400 m relay, was disqualified in 2008 due to Antonio Pettigrew confession of using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.