Lashawn Merritt News

Loading... 1 of 2 USA's LaShawn Merritt leaves the blocks at the start of a men's 400-meter semifinal heat during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug.

Want LaShawn Merritt's gold medal-winning shoes? Get to Food Lion, fast. At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the grocery store chain will raffle the spikes that the hometown track star wore in his Olympic gold medal relay race at Beijing.

Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards were voted the winners of the 2009 Jesse Owens Awards by members of the U.S. track and field media, along with track fans who voted for their favorites in the first-ever Jesse Owens Athletes of the Year Fan Vote presented by Nike.

Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt of Portsmouth may earn enough gold medals to fill Fort Knox.

China's Liu Xiang and Terrence Trammell compete in the 110-meter hurdles. The American won in 13.15 seconds in a photo finish.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt sets world record time of 19.19 seconds in final of the 200-metre sprint at the World Athletics Championships last week in Berlin.

Olympic and world 400 meters champion LaShawn Merritt won the men's 400 meters title at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix here on Sunday.

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang placed second at the Golden Grand Prix on Sunday in his first race since a foot injury forced him to pull out of the Beijing Olympics.

Canadian Gary Reed added another strong result to close out the 2009 track and field season on Saturday, finishing second in the 800 metres at the World Athletics Final in Greece.

THESSALONIKI : World silver medallist Tyson Gay of the United States overhauled former world record holder Asafa Powell to win the men's 100m at the World Athletics Final on Saturday.

Another week and another gold medal for LaShawn Merritt . The LaShawn hotness flies across the 400 meter finishing line at the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece in 44.93 seconds.

Tyson Gay of the US beat Jamaica's Asafa Powell in the men's 100 metres at the World Athletics Final here.

Former world champion Tyson Gay sprinted to victory in the 100m at the IAAF World Athletics final on Saturday, but was overshadowed by superstar Usain Bolt, who wasn't even competing.

Team USA stars Allyson Felix, LaShawn Merritt, Sanya Richards, Christian Cantwell, Brittney Reese, Tyson Gay, Bernard Lagat, Dwight Phillips and Kerron Clement will lead a strong contingent of Americans at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final September 12-13 at Thessaloniki, Greece.

New discus world champion Dani Samuels will headline a four-strong Australian contingent at this weekend's World Athletics Final in Greece.

Jamaica's Veronica Campbell Brown on her way to win the woman's 100m race ahead of German Verena Sailer and Jamaica's Simone Facey at the IAAF Grand Prix Athletics Meeting Zagreb 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia, on Monday night.

Who is track's greatest runner? Long-distance star Kenenisa Bekele wonders what it would be like to race sprinting great Usain Bolt.

Mo Farah was never in contention after a spectacular fall in the 3,000m at the British Grand Prix meeting at Gateshead International Stadium on Monday.

Treble world sprint champion Usain Bolt will not compete against world silver medallist Tyson Gay in the 100m at the sixth and final Golden League meet of the season on Friday.

All Told, the USA Actually Fared Pretty Well in the World Championships The Americans, along with the rest of the planet, aren't going to beat Jamaica's Usain Bolt in the sprints any time soon.