Houghton, Greg

Greg Haugton ( born Greg Haughton ; born November 10, 1973 , Kingston ) is a Jamaican athlete . He has won three Olympic medals (bronze at the 1996 Olympics , as well as silver and bronze at the 2000 Olympics . Greg Haugton's personal 400m record is 44.56 seconds.

Greg Houghton
general information
Date and place of birth	November 10, 1973 ( 1973-11-10 ) (aged 45) Kingston , Jamaica
Citizenship	Jamaica
Growth	185 cm
Weight	79 kg
Sports career	1993-2005
IAAF
Personal records
200 m	20:64
400 m	44:56
International medals
Olympic Games Bronze Atlanta 1996 4x400 meters Silver Sydney 2000 4x400 meters Bronze Sydney 2000 400 meters World Championship Silver Gothenburg 1995 4x400 meters Bronze Gothenburg 1995 400 meters Bronze Athens 1997 4x400 meters Silver Seville 1999 4x400 meters Silver Edmonton 2001 4x400 meters Bronze Edmonton 2001 400 meters Indoor World Championships Silver Paris 1997 4x400 meters Gold Budapest 2004 4x400 meters Goodwill Games Gold Brisbane 2001 400 meters Pan American Games Gold Winnipeg 1999 400 meters CARIFTA Games Gold CARIFTA Games 2004 400 meters

He was coached by Clyde Hart (a famous trainer who also taught Michael Johnson ). Houghton also won bronze medals in the 400m race at the 1995 and 2001 World Athletics Championships . Haugton won gold medals at the 2001 Goodwill Games , the 1999 Pan American Games , the Central American and Caribbean Islands Athletics Championships 1993 . Haugton has won five Jamaican athletics championships.

As part of the 4 × 400 meter relay team in Jamaica, the Jamaican athlete in 2004 became the indoor world champion. Greg Haugton three times became the silver medalist of the world championships.

Haugton was inducted into the Virginia State Hall of Fame, George Mason University Hall of Fame, and the Carreras Sports Hall of Fame as the best male athlete of the year for the 1999-2000 season. In April 2011, the athlete received an award from the sports association of inter-secondary schools "for his outstanding contribution to the development of athletics in Jamaica ."