The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #18 - Olympian Athlete and World Champion Wallace Spearmon

The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant

Adrian Durant

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🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant, where we meet and have conversations with some of the most inspiring and elite athletes, coaches and sports personalities. Today, we have with us on the show, Wallace Spearmon, an Olympian athlete and a World Champion. Spearmon is a track & field athlete who specializes in the 200 meters. He is a two-time NCAA outdoor champion in the 200 m and won the silver medal in the event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. He has a personal best of 19.65 seconds for the distance, making him the ninth fastest 200 meter runner of all-time.

In this interview with Wallace Spearmon, we talk about his early days, how he got into track and running. He shares about his time at High School and University of Arkansas, where he competed collegiately for two seasons before turning pro. Wallace shares his two cents on becoming a World Class athlete. We also talked about the unfortunate incident when he had to give up his Olympic medal. Wallace also shares his plans for the future.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to the Home Stretch Podcast with Adrian Durant.
0:16.0	Thank you for joining me again.
0:17.0	And this evening we have another special guest, Wallace Paramann Jr.
0:21.0	Ashley, thank you for joining us again as well.
0:24.0	Yes, sir.
0:25.0	And on the Home Stretch for you, new listeners, the Home Stretch Podcast, we'd like to talk to
0:31.0	this amazing track of field athletes, world champions and medalists and Olympians and just talk about their journey and how they got to where they got, you know, how, what does it take to become a champion.
0:41.0	We want to find out directly from the champs.
0:44.0	So let me run now.
0:46.0	Wallace is resume a little bit here.
0:57.0	It was a two time NCAA outdoor champion in the 200 meters, 200, my favorite event.
1:03.0	Three time USA outdoor champion is PR the 200 is 1965, which is currently number nine all time.
1:12.0	I can't avoid the four so stop trying 2005.
1:17.0	He was second in the world championship.
1:20.0	And also he was the American and collegiate record holder in 200.
1:24.0	You ran a 20.10 crazy race.
1:27.0	I was there for that race crazy race.
1:30.0	And it was a second fast of the history at the time.
1:33.0	2006, he had the 300 meter indoor world record, which I was there for that race too.
1:39.0	I'm going to let Sean climate.
1:42.0	Yeah, good race another one.
1:44.0	Another world record.
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