Patrick Johnson (sprinter)

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Patrick Johnson
Personal information
NationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born26 September 1972 (1972-09-26) (age 52)
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event(s) 100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal bests100 m: 9.93 (Mito 2003) AR

200 m: 20.35 (Malmö 2006)

60 m (indoor): 6.69 (Lisbon 2001)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Manchester 4×100 m relay

Patrick Johnson (born 26 September 1972 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian athlete of Aboriginal and Irish descent. He is the current Oceanian and Australian record holder in the 100 metres with a time of 9.93 seconds, which he achieved in Mito, Japan, on 5 May 2003. With that time he became the first person not of African ancestry to break the 10-second barrier (Frankie Fredericks, a Namibian, had been the first non-West-African in 1991). [1] The time made him the 17th-fastest man in history at the time and 38th man to crack the 10-second barrier. [2] He was regarded as the fastest man of non-African descent before Christophe Lemaitre ran 9.92 seconds in French National Championships in Albi on 29 July 2011. [3]

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He reached the finals in both the 100 and 200 metres at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and the 200m final in the 2005 World Championships, where he finished 6th. He represented Australia at the Olympic Games in 2000. He finished his career with one Commonwealth Games medal: a bronze in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Personal life

Johnson's mother was a Kaanju Indigenous Australian and his father is of Irish descent. [2] [3] [4] He was born on a speed boat en route to Cairns base hospital. [5] His mother died when he was young, so he grew up on his father's mackerel trawler, and spent his childhood travelling the coast of Cape York with his siblings. [6] A chance entry into a 100m race in Queensland in his early 20s revealed his talent, and he later won a scholarship to attend the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. His career in athletics was somewhat shortened by his age, and he later worked in the Australian diplomatic service, and in Indigenous health.

In 2018, Johnson contributed a chapter entitled 'My Life's Voyage' to the 2018 biographical anthology Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia , edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc.

Personal bests

EventTimeWindVenueDateNotes
Outdoor
100 m9.93 s+1.8 m/s Mito, Japan 5 May 2003 Oceanian record
200 m20.35 s+1.0 m/s Malmö, Sweden 22 August 2006
Indoor
60 m6.69 s Lisbon, Portugal 11 March 2001

International competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
1997 World Championships Athens, Greece 52nd (h) 200 m 21.45 (wind: +1.1 m/s)
1999 Universiade Palma de Mallorca, Spain 6th 200 m 21.06 (wind: -1.0 m/s)
2000 Olympics Sydney, Australia 32nd (qf) 100 m 10.44 (wind: +0.2 m/s)
28th (qf) 200 m 20.87 (wind: -0.2 m/s)
(sf) 4×100 m relay DQ(relay leg: 4th) [7]
2001 World Indoor Championships Lisbon, Portugal 15th (sf) 60 m 6.69PB
2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester, United Kingdom 3rd 4×100 m relay 38.87 (relay leg: 4th)
World Cup Madrid, Spain 7th100 m10.58 (wind: -0.3 m/s) [8]
7th4×100 m relay39.58 (relay leg: 4th) [8]
2003 World Championships Saint-Denis, France 23rd (qf) 100 m 10.27 (wind: +0.7 m/s)
31st (qf) 200 m 20.83 (wind: +0.6 m/s)
13th (sf) 4×100 m relay 38.90 (relay leg: 2nd)
2004 Olympics Athens, Greece 6th 4×100 m relay 38.56 (relay leg: 3rd)
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 23rd (qf) 100 m 10.48 (wind: -2.0 m/s)
6th 200 m 20.58 (wind: -0.5 m/s)
5th 4×100 m relay 38.32 (relay leg: 4th)
2006 Commonwealth Games Melbourne, Australia 6th 100 m 10.26 (wind: +0.9 m/s)
4th 200 m 20.59 (wind: +0.5 m/s)
(f) 4×100 m relay DNF(relay leg: 4th) [9]
World Cup Athens, Greece 8th 100 m 10.28 (wind: +1.1 m/s) [8]
5th 200 m 20.52 (wind: +0.1 m/s) [8]
6th 4×100 m relay 39.48 (relay leg: 2nd) [8]
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 17th (qf) 100 m 10.29 (wind: -0.6 m/s)
16th (sf) 200 m 20.73 (wind: -0.4 m/s)
2010 Commonwealth Games Delhi, India 7th (h) 4×100 m relay 39.53 (relay leg: 1st) [10]


Track records

As of 6 September 2024, Johnson holds the following track records for 100 metres and 200 metres.


100 metres

LocationTimeWindspeed
m/s
Date
Bern 10.07– 0.328/06/2003
Mito, Ibaraki 9.93
AR
+ 1.805/05/2003
Perth, Western Australia 9.88+ 3.608/02/2003


200 metres

LocationTimeWindspeed
m/s
Date
Campbelltown,
New South Wales
20.26+ 2.615/02/2003

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  7. 6th (h) / 38.76 (relay leg: 1st)
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Representing Oceania
  9. Competed only in the final
  10. Competed only in the heat