Jeff Williams (sprinter)
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| Full name | Jeffrey Williams | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 31, 1965 (age 59) Los Angeles, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Williams (born December 31, 1965) is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 200-meter dash. He was the bronze medalist at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and reached the 200 m final at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He set an American record in the 200 m indoors in 1996.
He was a late bloomer and attended his first world championship competition at the age of 29. Williams was unusual for an elite male runner at the time in that he had a female coach: 1968 Olympic gold medallist Barbara Ferrell.