Darrell Robinson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Darrell Robinson
Occupation	Runner
Date Of Birth	Dec 23, 1963(1963-12-23)
Age	61
Birthplace	Tacoma
Country	United States
Birth City	Washington
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Darrell Robinson Biography

Darrell Robinson is one of the most popular and richest Runner who was born on December 23, 1963 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. American athletes in track and field who earned the bronze medal at 1986’s Goodwill Games in Moscow in the 400m race.

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While attending Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington, Robinson ran a United States high school record of 44.69 seconds in the 400 m at the age of eighteen. This mark, set at the 1982 National Sports Festival in Indianapolis, was also a world junior record for the distance. Furthermore, his time was the second fastest 400 m run by any athlete that year, one-hundredth behind Sunder Nix who had beaten him in the race. He also received the Governor’s Trophy for Outstanding Male Athlete for his performance in the 400 m at the Golden West Invitational that year. He was Track and Field News “High School Athlete of the Year” in 1982.

In 1985, Robinson ran a season’s best of 44.71 seconds to finish behind Innocent Egbunike in Los Angeles – a time which ranked him as the fifth fastest 400 m runner that year. He began training with Chuck DeBus and 1986 proved to be a breakthrough for Robinson. He competed at the Mt. SAC Relays in early May and recorded 20.41 seconds over 200 meters. He joined a strong 400 m line-up at the Pepsi Invitational later that month, which also featured Gabriel Tiacoh, Antonio McKay, Michael Franks and Egbunike, and all were intent on breaking Alberto Juantorena’s time of 44.26 (the fastest run at sea- level). Robinson led over the first 200 m at a world-record-pace of 21.4 seconds. However, Tiacoh managed to overhaul him in the last straight, but Robinson’s time of 44.45 seconds to finish as runner-up was a still personal record. The race was the quickest that year, and Tiacoh and Robinson’s times ranked them first and second on the season’s lists, respectively.

He got married Lisl Hager, who was a ex- U.S. skier.

Darrell Robinson Net Worth

Darrell Robinson is one of the richest Runner from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Darrell Robinson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a music student at UCLA after a brief time at University of Houston.

He caused controversy when he accused many prominent athletes of using performance-enhancing drugs, a debacle that led to the end of his career.

Darrell Robinson (born December 23, 1963) is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter dash. He set a US high school of 44.69 seconds in the 400 m at the age of 18. Just off the world junior record of 43.87 by Steve Lewis in the 1988 Olympic games. He was in the world’s top-five 400 m runners in 1985 and 1986. He won a bronze medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games, and won races at numerous high-profile track meetings.

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In late 1989, Robinson gave an interview with Stern in West Germany accusing a number of figures in American track and field of using and distributing performance-enhancing drugs. In October, The Athletics Congress (later USA Track & Field) had allowed the voluntary resignation of Robinson’s former coach Chuck DeBus for giving banned substances to his athletes. Robinson said in Stern that, while staying at his house in 1982, he had seen Carl Lewis inject himself with a white fluid – what he believed to be testosterone. Furthermore, he said he had seen Tom Tellez (Lewis’ coach) distribute blue pills to his athletes and claimed that these were banned steroids. Robinson had begun training with Bob Kersee in 1987 and he claimed that the coach had advised him on steroid use and given him two types of tablets; oxandrolone and metandienone. Robinson also claimed that he had personally sold a 10-cubic centimetre vial of human growth hormone to Florence Griffith-Joyner in March 1988, just months before she ran two world records and won an Olympic gold medal.

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The accusations brought about the end of Robinson’s career at the age of 25 as he was largely blacklisted by promoters on the European track circuit. In spite of this, he stood by the statements he had made in his interviews. His personal life grew increasingly difficult after his retirement. One of his children was beaten to death by the mother and when his daughter, by another woman, moved to Canada he was blocked from seeing her. An attempt to take his daughter back to the United States resulted in charges for assault and abduction, and he served five months in jail. He began seeing a psychiatrist in Tacoma, but twice attempted suicide in 1996. He married former US skier Lisl Hager in the late 1990s and retreated from public life, refusing to take calls from the press and asking to be left alone.

Top Facts about Darrell Robinson

1. Darrell Robinson was an American sprinter born in 1962.
2. He set the world record for the indoor 400m in 1987.
3. Robinson won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
4. He also won gold medals at the Pan American Games and World Cup.
5. Robinson retired from athletics in 1990 due to injury.
6. He later became a coach and worked with several Olympic athletes.
7. Robinson passed away in 2019 at the age of 56.
8. His world record for the indoor 400m stood for over two decades.
9. Robinson was known for his powerful running style and speed endurance.
10. He remains one of America’s greatest ever quarter-milers.