Angelo Taylor

Track and Field Alumni and Trainees

  • Hometown: Decatur, Georgia
  • Languages Spoken: English

Taylor is an American track and field athlete, gold medalist in 400m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics. His personal record for the hurdles event is 47.25 seconds and he has a 400m dash best of 44.05 seconds. He won the bronze medal in the 400m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.

He is a three-time world champion in the 4×400m relay with the United States (2007, 2009 and 2011), and was also a relay gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver medalist at the 2012 London Olympics.