Mike Rodgers

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Michael Rodgers (born April 24, 1985) is an American professional track and field sprinter who specializes in the 100 m and the 60 m. He won the gold medal in the 100 m relay in Doha 2019. He is also the Pan-Am Games Champion.

Career Rodgers attended Berkeley High School in St. Louis, Missouri, where he ran varsity track and played varsity basketball for the Bulldogs. Later attended Lindenwood University and Oklahoma Baptist University where he was a 10-time NAIA national champion from 2005 to 2007. Rodgers previously held the NAIA Indoor 60 m record with a 6.65.

In 60 meters, he became the 2008 US Indoor Champion and went on to finish fourth at the 2008 World Indoor Championships. In the 100 meters he finished sixth at the 2008 World Athletics Final.

The start of the 2009 outdoor season saw Rodgers improve his 100 and 200 meter personal bests: at the Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa meet in May he recorded times of 10.01 and 20.24 seconds respectively. He further improved his 100 m best in June at the Prefontaine Classic, breaking the 10-second barrier for the first time with a world-leading performance of 9.94 seconds.

Rodgers qualified for his first World Championships in Athletics with a win at the 2009 US Championships in June. Of his first outdoor national victory he said: "This is my year. I came here with a lot of confidence. I think I can medal in Berlin if I work hard and stay humble." He reached the semi-finals at the 2009 World Championships, finishing fifth and just missing out on a place in the 100 m final. He closed the season with a fourth-place finish at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final.

The following year he turned to the 60 m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and took the silver medal behind Dwain Chambers with a run of 6.53 seconds – his first medal on the global stage.

He improved up to running 9.85 at the Prefontaine classic 2011.

On July 19, 2011, he tested positive for a banned stimulant at a meeting in Italy. Rodgers claimed innocence, but accepted a provisional ban making him ineligible to participate at the World Championships in Daegu that year. He and his agent, Tony Campbell, initially claimed that Rodgers accidentally ingested the stimulant in an energy drink containing the stimulant at a club in Italy. He later accepted that he had taken a supplement called "Jack3d" which contained the stimulant methylhexanamine, a substance commonly found in nutritional supplements and energy drinks. In March 2012 he accepted a 9-month ban starting from the day his urine sample was taken, making him still eligible to participate at the USA Olympic Trials in Eugene that year.

Statistics Information from World Athletics profile.

Personal bests Event Time Wind (m/s) Venue Date Notes 60 m 6.48 Albuquerque, United States February 27, 2011 Altitude-assisted, 100 m 9.85 +1.3 Eugene, United States June 4, 2011 9.80 +2.7 Eugene, United States May 31, 2014 Wind-assisted +2.4 Eugene, United States June 27, 2014 200 m 20.24 0.0 Belém, Brazil May 24, 2009 4 × 100 m relay 37.10 Doha, Qatar October 5, 2019 ,

International championship results

Circuit wins Outdoor Diamond League Zürich Weltklasse: 2010 (4 × 100 m relay) Monaco Herculis: 2012 (4 × 100 m relay), 2013 (4 × 100 m relay), 2015 (4 × 100 m relay) Lausanne Athletissima: 2013 (100 m) Paris Meeting Areva: 2014 (100 m) Other World Tour / World Challenge meets Stockholm DN-galan: 2008 (4 × 100 m relay) Belém Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo: 2009 (100 m & 200 m), 2010 (100 m) New York Reebok Grand Prix: 2009 (100 m) Eugene Prefontaine Classic: 2009 (100 m) Zhukovsky Znamensky Memorial: 2010 (100 m) Tokyo Seiko Golden Grand Prix: 2013 (100 m) Zagreb Hanžeković Memorial: 2013 (100 m), 2018 (100 m), 2019 (100 m) Madrid Meeting de Atletismo: 2015 (100 m) Nanjing World Challenge: 2019 (100 m) Turku Paavo Nurmi Games: 2019 (100 m)

Indoor World Indoor Tour (60 m) Overall winner: 2016 Karlsruhe Indoor Meeting: 2016 Boston New Balance Indoor Grand Prix: 2016 Madrid Indoor Meeting: 2018, 2019

National championship results Representing the Lindenwood Lions (2004–2005), Oklahoma Baptist Bison (2007), and Nike (2008–2011, 2013–2016, 2018–2019)2004 U.S. Junior Championships College Station, Texas 5th 100 m 10.37 +3.2 Wind-assisted 6th 200 m 21.40 0.0 2005 U.S. Championships Carson, California 18th 100 m 10.37 +1.0 2006 U.S. Championships Indianapolis, Indiana 22nd 100 m 10.41 +0.4 2007 U.S. Indoor Championships Boston, Massachusetts 11th 60 m 6.74 2007 U.S. Championships Indianapolis, Indiana 14th 100 m 10.40 −1.4 2008 U.S. Indoor Championships Boston, Massachusetts 1st 60 m 6.54 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 7th 100 m 10.01 +4.1 Wind-assisted 2009 U.S. Championships Eugene, Oregon 1st 100 m 9.91 +3.1 Wind-assisted 2010 U.S. Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico 1st 60 m 6.52 Altitude-assisted, 2011 U.S. Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico 1st 60 m 6.48 Altitude-assisted, , 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 4th 100 m 9.94 +1.8 2013 U.S. Championships Des Moines, Iowa 3rd 100 m 9.98 +1.1 2014 U.S. Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico 1st (heats) 60 m 6.51 Altitude-assisted, , U.S. Championships Sacramento, California 1st 100 m 10.07 −1.7 2015 U.S. Championships Eugene, Oregon 3rd 100 m 9.97 0.0 2016 U.S. Indoor Championships Portland, Oregon 1st (heats) 60 m 6.56 U.S. Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 4th 100 m 10.00 +1.6 17th 200 m 20.94 −1.1 2018 U.S. Indoor Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico 3rd 60 m 6.50 Altitude-assisted, 2018 U.S. Championships Des Moines, Iowa 1st (heats) 100 m 9.89 +1.4 , , 2019 U.S. Championships Des Moines, Iowa 2nd 100 m 10.12 −1.0 10.114 s 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 15th 100 m 10.23 −0.3

Seasonal bests

Year 60 meters 100 meters 2003 6.89 10.81 2004 6.86 10.63 2005 6.71 10.30 2006 6.64 10.26 2007 6.65 10.10 2008 6.54 10.06 2009 6.51 9.94 2010 6.52 10.00 2011 6.48 9.85 2012 – 9.94 2013 6.53 9.90 2014 6.51 9.91 2015 6.52 9.86 2016 6.51 9.97 2017 6.62 10.00 2018 6.50 9.89 2019 6.54 9.97 2020 6.59 10.12 2021 6.52 10.00 2022 6.55 10.19 2023 6.66 10.41

Track records As of 9 September 2024, Rodgers holds the following track records for 100 metres. LocationTimeWindspeedm/sDate Dubnica nad Váhom 9.90 +2.5 21/08/2013 Glasgow 9.97 +0.3 11/07/2014 Track record shared with Nickel Ashmeade (JAM)from the same race. Lima 10.09 –0.5 07/08/2019 Nanjing 10.09 +0.2 21/05/2019 Track record shared with Andre De Grasse (CAN)from the same race. Oxford, MS 9.96 +1.1 23/04/2011 Plainview 10.07 0.0 21/04/2007 Prague 9.92 +1.7 04/06/2018 Sacramento 9.80 +2.4 27/06/2014 Tomblaine 9.96 + 2.4 08/07/2012 Track record shared with Kim Collins (SKN)from the same race. Uberlândia 10.08 –1.0 20/05/2009