Brian Brown (high jumper)
American track and field athlete and coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brian Brown (born January 9, 1967) is an American male former track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. His career best was 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in), set in 1990. He was the national champion at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1989 and won the NCAA Indoor Division I title in 1990.
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1998 Uniondale | High jump |
He competed for the United States three times at world level, at the 1989 IAAF World Cup, 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships and 1999 World Championships in Athletics. Brown was a bronze medalist at the 1998 Goodwill Games.
After his retirement from the sport he turned to coaching and organization, working at Drake University and the University of Missouri, alongside his wife Natasha Kaiser-Brown.