Andre Cason is an American

United States

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 former sprinter

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

. He was a member of the US 4 x 100 meters relay team that won the gold medal at the 1991 World Championships

1991 World Championships in Athletics

The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1 and athletes from 167 countries participated in the event.The event is best-remembered for the...

 in Tokyo

Tokyo

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 with a world record

World records in athletics

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 time of 37.50 seconds. A few weeks after this event Cason, ran his first sub-10-second 100 meters race when winning in Koblenz

Koblenz

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 in 9.99 seconds.

The 1992 season started very promisingly for Cason as he set a new 60 meters

60 meters

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 world indoor record with 6.41 s and kept his excellent form until the early summer. However, at the 1992 US Olympic Trials

United States Olympic Trials (track and field)

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 he injured himself and was out for the rest of the season.

In 1993 Cason won the 100 m at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

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 in Eugene, Oregon

Eugene, Oregon

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 and won a silver medal over 100 m at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics

1993 World Championships in Athletics

The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, Stuttgart, Germany between August 13 and August 22 with the participation of 187 nations....

 in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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, running in 9.92 s. In the 4 x 100 m relay he was a member of the US team that tied the world record at 37.40 s in the semi-finals, and won the gold in the final with 37.48 s.

Personal bests

Event	Time (seconds)	Venue	Date
50 meters	5.62	Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California... , United States	February 15, 1992
60 meters 60 meters The 60 meter band or 5 MHz band is a relatively new amateur radio allocation and originally only available in a few countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Ireland and Iceland...	6.41 (1992–1998)	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Spain	February 14, 1992
100 meters	9.92	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , Germany	August 15, 1993

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