Wallace Spearmon

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Medal record
Wallace Spearmon
Men’s athletics
Competitor for the United States
World Championships
Gold	2007 Osaka	4x100 m relay
Silver	2005 Helsinki	200 m
Bronze	2007 Osaka	200 m

Wallace Spearmon, Jr., (born December 24, 1984) in Chicago, Illinois, USA is a sprint athlete. Spearmon is a graduate of Fayetteville High School and currently attends the University of Arkansas, where he competed collegiately for two seasons before turning pro.

While at Arkansas, he won the 200 meter dash (200m) NCAA Outdoor title in 2004 and 2005 as well as the NCAA Indoor 200m title in 2005. In August 2005, he won the silver medal in the 200m at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and in August 2007, he won the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships.

His personal best for 200m is 19.65 seconds, which is fourth fastest in the world. Only Americans Michael Johnson (19.32), his training partner Tyson Gay (19.62), and Xavier Carter (19.63) have run faster. Despite the fact that he normally runs a "slower" first half of his 200m races and goes on to pass people down the stretch, his 100m personal best is 9.96. He set that mark running in Shanghai on September 28 2007, beating 100m world champion Tyson Gay.

Spearmon won the 200m at the USA outdoor athletics championships in 2006 and finished second in 2007.