Andre Phillips
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| Full name | André Lamar Phillips | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 5, 1959 (age 65) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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André Lamar Phillips (born September 5, 1959) is a retired American track and field athlete who is best known for winning the 400 metres hurdles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Phillips spent most of his career in the shadow of his idol, Edwin Moses, frequently as runner up during Moses' unequaled winning streak. He managed to beat him once, at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. In 1983, Phillips finished fifth in the 400 m hurdles at the inaugural World Athletics Championships. In 1985, in absence of Moses, Phillips won his only US National Championship title, and also won the IAAF World Cup. In 1988, Phillips lost to Moses at the Olympic trials, but showed a good pace at Olympics, winning his heat and semifinal. In the final, Phillips ran his personal best 47.19 to win a gold medal, beating second-place Amadou Dia Ba from Senegal by 0.04 seconds. At the time he was the second fastest individual over the hurdles. The two times currently still rank them as the #10 and #11 performers of all time. Although Moses ran his fastest Olympic final, he finished only third in a time of 47.56. It was the final race of Moses' career.
In 2009, Phillips was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.[1]
Phillips attended at University of California, Los Angeles, and won the 400 m hurdles at the NCAA championships in 1981. Prior to that, he attended Silver Creek High School in San Jose, California, where he won the CIF California State Meet in the 330-yard low hurdles in 1977.[2] in 36.43. He continues to hold the 330-yard low hurdle record at Silver Creek at 37.1 sec. He joins 1976 4x100 meter relay Gold medalist, and individual 200 meters Silver medalist Millard Hampton, in one of the rare instances (the school claims only eight exist) of two unrelated Olympic Gold Medalists coming from the same high school. Silver Creek continues to host the "Hampton Phillips Classic" named in their honor.[3]
Phillips is a former teacher at Stagg High School, a former Assistant Principal at Franklin High School, and is now the current Principal at Stagg High School in Stockton, California. Phillips earned his educational doctorate (Ed.D.) at Concordia University Irvine.
As of 16 November 2024, he still holds six track records for the 400 metres hurdles set over the period 1985 to 1988.
References
[edit]- ^ "Andre Phillips". legacy.usatf.org. USA Track & Field. Retrieved April 1, 2009.
- ^ "California State Meet Results – 1915 to present". prepcaltrack.com. Hank Lawson. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2012.
- ^ "Hampton-Phillips Track Meet for 2010". hampton-phillips2010.com. Archived from the original on June 1, 2010. Retrieved September 6, 2010. Hampton Phillips
- Wallechinksy, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Track & Field (Men): 400-Meter Hurdles". In The Complete Book of the Olympics – 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 165–6.
External links
[edit]- Andre Phillips at www.USATF.org
- Andre Phillips at the USATF Hall of Fame (archived)
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- African-American track and field athletes
- American male hurdlers
- Schoolteachers from California
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Junior college men's track and field athletes in the United States
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
- Track and field athletes from Milwaukee
- Track and field athletes from San Jose, California
- UCLA Bruins men's track and field athletes
- 21st-century African-American sportsmen
- 20th-century African-American sportsmen
- Silver Creek High School (California) alumni
- NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners