Michael Rodgers (born April 24, 1985) is an American professional

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sprinter who specializes in the

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and the 60 m. He won the gold medal in the 100m relay in Doha 2019. He is also the Pan-Am Games Champion.

Career

Rodgers attended Berkeley High School in

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where he ran varsity track and played varsity basketball for the Bulldogs. Later attended

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and

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where he was a 10-time NAIA national champion from 2005 to 2007. Rodgers still holds the NAIA Indoor 60m record with a 6.65. In

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, he became the 2008 US Indoor Champion and went on to finish fourth at the 2008 World Indoor Championships. In the 100 meters he finished sixth at the

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. The start of the 2009 outdoor season saw Rodgers improve his 100 and 200 meter personal bests: at the

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meet in May he recorded times of 10.01 and 20.24 seconds respectively. He further improved his 100 m best in June at the

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, breaking the

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for the first time with a world-leading performance of 9.94 seconds. Rodgers qualified for his first

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with a win at the 2009 US Championships in June. Of his first outdoor national victory he said: "This is my year. I came here with a lot of confidence. I think I can medal in Berlin if I work hard and stay humble." He reached the semi-finals at the 2009 World Championships, finishing fifth and just missing out on a place in the 100 m final. He closed the season with a fourth-place finish at the

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. The following year he turned to the 60 m at the

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and took the

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behind Dwain Chambers with a run of 6.53 seconds – his first medal on the global stage. He improved up to running 9.85 at the Prefontaine classic 2011. On July 19, 2011 he tested positive for a banned stimulant at a meeting in Italy. Rodgers claimed innocence, but accepted a provisional ban making him ineligible to participate at the

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that year. He and his agent, Tony Campbell, initially claimed that Rodgers accidentally ingested the stimulant in an energy drink containing the stimulant at a club in Italy. He later accepted that he had taken a supplement called "Jack3d" which contained the stimulant

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, a substance commonly found in nutritional supplements and energy drinks. In March 2012 he accepted a 9-month ban starting from the day his urine sample was taken, making him still eligible to participate at the USA Olympic Trials in Eugene that year.

Statistics

*Information from

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profile.

Personal bests

International championship results

Circuit wins

;Outdoor *

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: 2010 (4×100 m relay) ** Monaco Herculis: 2012 (4×100 m relay), 2013 (4×100 m relay), 2015 (4×100 m relay) ** Lausanne Athletissima: 2013 (100 m) ** Paris Meeting Areva: 2014 (100 m) *Other World Tour / World Challenge meets ** Stockholm DN-galan: 2008 (4×100 m relay) ** Belém Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo: 2009 (100 m & 200 m), 2010 (100 m) ** New York Reebok Grand Prix: 2009 (100 m) ** Eugene Prefontaine Classic: 2009 (100 m) ** Zhukovsky Znamensky Memorial: 2010 (100 m) ** Tokyo Seiko Golden Grand Prix: 2013 (100 m) ** Zagreb Hanžeković Memorial: 2013 (100 m), 2018 (100 m, 2019 (100 m) ** Madrid Meeting de Atletismo: 2015 (100 m) ** Nanjing World Challenge: 2019 (100 m) ** Turku Paavo Nurmi Games: 2019 (100 m) ;Indoor * World Indoor Tour (60 m) **Overall winner:

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** Karlsruhe Indoor Meeting: 2016 ** Boston New Balance Indoor Grand Prix: 2016 **

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: 2018, 2019

National championship results

Seasonal bests

Notes

References

External links

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