Troy McIntosh

Troy McIntosh (born March 29, 1973) is a male sprinter from The Bahamas. He represented his nation at the Summer Olympics in 1996 and 2000. He had his greatest achievements with the Bahamian 4×400 metres relay team. He won the bronze medal in that event at the 2000 Summer Olympics after the United States team were retrospectively disqualified due to doping. This same disqualification, of Antonio Pettigrew, also resulted in Bahamas taking the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, where McIntosh was initially a silver medallist.

Troy McIntosh
Personal information
Nationality Bahamas
Born (1973-03-29) March 29, 1973
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportRunning
Event(s)Sprints
College teamMorgan State Bears
Coached byTrevor Graham
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)200 m: 20.62 (Baton Rouge 2003)
400 m: 44.73 (Mexico City 1996)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the  Bahamas
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney 4×400 m relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2001 Edmonton4x400 m relay[1]
Silver medal – second place2005 Helsinki4x400 m relay
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place2002 Manchester4×400 m relay
CAC Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place1990 Havana 4×100 m relay

Individually he was the bronze medallist in the 400 metres at the 1998 IAAF World Cup and the champion at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games. He ran an indoor Bahamian record of 46.05 seconds at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where he finished fourth.

Achievements
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Bahamas
1990 CAC Junior Championships (U-20) Havana, Cuba 3rd 4x100 m relay 41.74
4th 4x400 m relay 3:13.62
1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 18th (qf) 400 m 45.72
12th (h) 4 x 400 m relay 3:02.85 NR
1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, United States 37th (h) 400 m 46.42
7th 4 x 400 m relay 3:02.71
1997 World Indoor Championships Paris, France 6th (sf) 400 m 46.20[2]
1998 Central American and Caribbean Games Maracaibo, Venezuela 1st 400 m 44.84
World Cup Johannesburg, South Africa 3rd 400 m 45.45[3]
2nd 4x400 m relay 2:59.77[3]
Commonwealth Games Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 8th (sf) 400 m 45.19
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 4th 400 m 46.05 NR
Pan American Games Winnipeg, Canada 6th 400 m 45.60
World Championships Seville, Spain 6th 4 x 400 m relay 3:02.74
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 59th (h) 400 m 47.06
3rd 4 x 400 m relay 2:59.23
2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada 1st 4x400 m relay[1]
2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester, United Kingdom 3rd 4 x 400 m relay 3:01.35
2003 Pan American Games Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 22nd (h) 200 m 21.56
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 2nd 4 x 400 m relay 2:59.73 WL (h)
2006 Commonwealth Games Melbourne, Australia – 200 m DNF
2007 Pan American Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7th 4 x 100 m relay 39.91

References
  1. The Bahamas 4 x 400 team won originally the silver medal, but the USA 4 x 400 team, which originally finished first in 4 x 400 m relay, was disqualified in 2008 due to Antonio Pettigrew confession of using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.
  2. Did not finish in the final
  3. Representing the Americas
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