Medal record
Men's Athletics
Competitor for the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1992 Barcelona	400 metres
Gold	1992 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
World Championships
Gold	1993 Stuttgart	4x400 m relay
Silver	1991 Tokyo	4x400 m relay

Quincy D. Watts (born June 19, 1970) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Quincy Watts attended the University of Southern California where he excelled not only as an athlete but also as a wide receiver on the college football team. While attending Taft High School in 1987, he ran a 10.36s [100m] which stands as the Los Angeles city section record.

At first, Watts was a short sprinter, specializing for 100 m and 200 m, but the USC coach Jim Bush, convinced him to run 400 m, where he found his success.

In 1992, by far his most successful year, he won the Olympic 400 m title. He twice broke Lee Evans' Olympic record of 43.86, (set at altitude during the 1968 games in Mexico), clocking 43.71 in his semi-final, before going on to record 43.50 in the final. He was a member of the 4 x 400 m relay team, running the second leg in 43.10, which smashed the world record in a time of 2:55.74.

At the World Championships in 1991, Watts won a silver medal in 4x400 relay, which he turned to gold in the next championships in 1993.

In 1994 and 1995 he failed to break 45 seconds and in 1996 finished a disappointing seventh in the US Olympic trials in a time of 45.64. Overshadowed by Michael Johnson, he retired in 1997 and was hired as the head coach to Taft High School. He now works as an assistant track coach at Harvard-Westlake High School and trains a number of professional athletes such as Willie McGinest and Curtis Conway.

[edit] References

• IAAF profile for Quincy Watts

[edit] External links

• "He just keeps running away" –in depth article from The Independent