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Maurice Greene (born July 23, 1974, in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American athlete. In his youth and high school, he participated in both football and track and field, but eventually proved to be best in the latter.

In 1995, Greene took part in his first major international tournament at the World Championships in Gothenburg, but was eliminated in the 100 m quarter-finals. His next season was disappointing, as he failed to make the American team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

However, the following season would be his breakthrough. At the World Championships in Athens, Greene won the 100 m title. This marked the beginning of a dominance of especially the 100 m by Greene, successfully defending his title in 1999 and 2001, setting the world record at 9.79 (beating the July 1996 record of Donovan Bailey at 9.84) in 1999 and capturing the Olympic Gold Medal in Sydney 2000. At the 1999 World Championships, he also won the 200 m title, the first to win both events at a World Championships.

In 2002, Greene lost his World Record to fellow American Tim Montgomery, who beat his time by 0.01, while Greene himself was injured and watched the race from the stands. Montgomery has since been found guilty of using performance enhancing supplements, and his record has been disallowed. The record was finally beaten legimately by Asafa Powell in 2005, when he ran 9.77 seconds in the same stadium that Green had set 9.79.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greene added to his medal tally with the bronze after finishing third in his attempt to defend his 100 m title, and a silver as the anchor leg runner on the United States 4x100 m relay team, narrowly denied another Olympic Gold by the British team, who won by 0.01 seconds.

As of August 2005, Greene has run 52 sub-10 seconds 100 m races, more than any other sprinter in history; Ato Boldon (from Trinidad and Tobago) is distant second with 28.

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