Atlee Mahorn

Atlee Mahorn

Personal information

Full name

Atlee Anthony Mahorn

Nationality

Canadian

Born

27 October 1965 (age 58)
Clarendon, Jamaica

Sport

Running

Event(s)

100m, 200m, 400m

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

100m: 10.18 (Tokyo 1991)
200m: 20.17s (Tokyo1991)
400m: 45.62 (Tempe 1986)

Medal record

Men's athletics

Representing Canada
World Championships
	1991 Tokyo	200 m
	1993 Stuttgart	4 × 100 m relay
Commonwealth Games
	1986 Edinburgh	200 m
Universiade
	1985 Kobe	200 m

Atlee Anthony Mahorn (born 27 October 1965) is a three-time Canadian Olympic and four-time World Championship sprinter. He won Bronze medals in the 200 metres at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo and the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. He won the gold medal in the 200m at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.

His personal best time of 20.17 in the 200 metres was set in the semi-finals at the 1991 World Championships which was a Canadian record until Aaron Brown broke the record on 30 May 2014.^[1]

Born in Clarendon, Jamaica, Mahorn is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and holds the school records in the 100 metres and 200 metres plus the number two times at 400 metres and as a member of a 4x100 metres relay.^[2] He received an MBA in International Business. Mahorn is fluent in the French language and can also communicate in both Spanish and Italian.^[3]

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Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Canada
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	5th (q-finals)	200 m	21.13
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	DQ	4 × 100 m relay
1984	Olympic Games^[4]	Los Angeles, United States	5th (semis)	200 m	20.77
1985	Universiade	Kobe, Japan	2nd	200 m	20.65
1986	Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh, Scotland	1st	200 m	20.31
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	8th	200 m	20.78
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	4th	4 × 100 m relay	38.47
1988	Olympic Games^[4]	Seoul, South Korea	5th	200 m	20.39
1988	Olympic Games^[4]	Seoul, South Korea	7th	4 × 100 m relay	38.93
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	6th (semis)	100 m	10.18
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	200 m	20.49
1992	Olympic Games^[4]	Barcelona, Spain	4th (q-finals)	200 m	20.78
1992	Olympic Games^[4]	Barcelona, Spain	DNF	4 × 100 m relay
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	5th (semis)	100 m	10.21
			7th (semis)	200 m	20.80
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	37.83

References

^ "Aaron Brown shatters Atlee Mahorn's Canadian 200m record". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 June 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
^ "ALL-TIME TOP 10" (PDF). calbears.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
^ "Atlee Mahorn". www.cbcworldwide.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Atlee Mahorn". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.