13 Facts About Darrell Robinson

Darrell Robinson was born on December 23,1963 and is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter dash.

Darrell Robinson won a bronze medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games, and won races at numerous high-profile track meetings.

Darrell Robinson was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1982.

Darrell Robinson went on to study at the University of Houston, but he left after the sprint coach who recruited him resigned.

Darrell Robinson missed making the final of the 1984 Olympic Trials, finishing 6th in the semis.

Darrell Robinson began training with Chuck DeBus and 1986 proved to be a breakthrough for Robinson.

The race was the quickest that year, and Tiacoh and Darrell Robinson's times ranked them first and second on the season's lists, respectively.

In late 1989, Darrell Robinson gave an interview with Stern in West Germany accusing a number of figures in American track and field of using and distributing performance-enhancing drugs.

Darrell Robinson had begun training with Bob Kersee in 1987 and he claimed that the coach had advised him on steroid use and given him two types of tablets: oxandrolone and metandienone.

Darrell Robinson claimed that he had personally sold a 10-cubic centimetre vial of human growth hormone to Florence Griffith-Joyner in March 1988, just months before she ran two world records and won an Olympic gold medal.

Darrell Robinson stood by the statements he had made in his interviews.

Darrell Robinson began seeing a psychiatrist in Tacoma, but twice attempted suicide in 1996.

Darrell Robinson married former US skier Lisl Hager in the late 1990s and retreated from public life, refusing to take calls from the press and asking to be left alone.