19 Facts About Stanley Floyd

Stanley Floyd was born on June 23,1961 and is a retired track and field sprinter from the United States.

Stanley Floyd was a 1979 graduate of Dougherty High School in Albany, Georgia.

Stanley Floyd originally attended Auburn University, but left after a year.

Stanley Floyd won the 100 m at the USA Olympic Trials for the 1980 Olympic team but did not compete due to the US Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia.

Stanley Floyd had already won the NCAA and USA National Championships in the men's 100 metres.

Stanley Floyd was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.

Stanley Floyd had the faster time for the year and in post-Olympic meetings he beat Wells by 2 to 1.

Additionally, Stanley Floyd suffered from declining form as his long season ended.

Later in the year outdoors, Stanley Floyd was second in the US National Championships at 100 metres.

Stanley Floyd was thus reserve at the 1981 Athletics World Cup to Carl Lewis, and even warmed-up for the event in case Lewis was injured competing in the long jump, whose start preceded the 100 m scheduled run time by only 40 minutes.

Stanley Floyd had a scintillating 1982 indoor season, establishing world records at 50 yards, 60 yards, and 55 metres.

Stanley Floyd achieved little success with American football - he was dropped by the Atlanta Falcons, then by the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League, and then failed to make the cut with the Houston Oilers.

Stanley Floyd was ranked among the best in the US and the world in the 100 m sprint events over the period 1980 to 1987, according to the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.

Stanley Floyd showed early promise as 200 m runner, and in 1981 was ranked seventh in the world and fifth in the US by those same experts of Track and Field News.

Stanley Floyd's wife, Delisa Walton-Stanley Floyd, was a former world-class middle-distance runner for Detroit-Mackenzie High School and the University of Tennessee.

Walton-Stanley Floyd placed fifth in the 800 meter run at the 1988 Summer Olympics; her personal best still ranks fifth all-time among American 800 meter runners.

Younger sister, Kalyn Stanley Floyd, was a three-time All American sprinter for the University of Houston track team.

Stanley Floyd was accepted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Albany Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.

Stanley Floyd is retired from the police service and resides in Houston, Texas.