Jerome Young

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Jerome Young is also the birth name of professional wrestler New Jack.

Medal record
Men’s athletics
Olympic Games
Gold	2000 Sydney	4x400 m relay
World Championships
Gold	1997 Athens	4x400 m relay
Gold	2001 Edmonton	4x400 m relay
Gold	2003 Paris	400 m
Disqualified	2003 Paris	4x400 m relay

Jerome Young (born: August 14, 1976) in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. His reputation as a sprinter has been tarnished as he was caught doping in 1999 casting suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career.

In 1995, as a senior in high school, Jerome set a Connecticut state record of 45.01 in the 400 m. Jerome was part of the world record breaking 4 x 400 metres relay team in 1998 along with Michael Johnson, Antonio Pettigrew, and Tyree Washington.

On June 29 2004 the IAAF announced the following:

The Court of Arbitration of Sport has decided that the Doping Appeal Board of USATF reached an erroneous decision when exonerating Jerome Young of a doping offence and that, accordingly, Jerome Young did indeed commit a Doping Offence on 26 June 1999.^[1]

The effect of the decision was to negate all his results from 26 June 1999 to 25 June 2001, and to ban him permanently from the date of the decision. Accordingly, he and his teammates were stripped of their 2000 Olympic medal in the 4x400 m relay, but he retained his 1997, 2001 and 2003 World Championship medals.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport reinstated the 2000 Olympic gold for Jerome's relay teammates in 2005.^[2] Jerome had not run in the final, he had run in one of the qualifying heats.

Jerome Young currently resides in Raleigh, NC as a sprinting coach at Millbrook High School. Jerome also teaches special education at the high school.