Sharon Dabney

Sharon Dabney (born January 1959) is a retired American track and field athlete. She was the 1979 Pan American Games Champion at 400 metres.^[1] She also was part of the United States gold medal winning 4x400 metres relay team. Four years earlier, she was part of the silver medal winning team as a 16 year old.

She was sixth place in the United States Olympic Trials in 1976. Her 51.55 in 1977 while still at John Bartram High School in Philadelphia was the second fastest 400 at the time, soon to be engulfed by the Howard sisters.^[2] At the time, before Title IX took effect, the high school had no athletic program for girls. At the 1980 Olympic Trials, she finished 4th behind Sherri Howard, Gwen Gardner and Denean Howard which should have put her on a likely medal winning relay team for the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[3] However that glory was not to be as for many athletes of her era she was left out of the Olympic by the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. In 1984, she was unable to get out of the quarter finals against Chandra Cheeseborough and Diane Dixon.

While studying at California State University, Los Angeles, she joined the three Howard sisters in setting the long-standing school record.^[4]^[5]

References

US National Championship winners in women's 400-meter dash

1958–1979 Amateur Athletic Union	1958: Chris McKenzie 1959: Kim Polson 1960: Irene Robertson 1961: Jackie Peterson 1962–3: Suzanne Knott 1964: Janell Smith 1965: Janell Smith 1966–7: Charlette Cooke 1968: Jarvis Scott 1969: Kathy Hammond 1970: Mavis Laing 1971: Mable Fergerson 1972: Kathy Hammond 1973: Mable Fergerson 1974–5: Debra Sapenter 1976: Lorna Forde (BAR) 1977: Sharon Dabney 1978: Lorna Forde (BAR) 1979: Patricia Jackson

1980–1992 The Athletics Congress	1980: Sherri Howard 1981–3: Denean Howard 1984: Valerie Brisco 1985: Lillie Leatherwood 1986: Diane Dixon 1987–8: Lillie Leatherwood 1989: Rochelle Stevens 1990: Maicel Malone 1991: Lillie Leatherwood 1992: Rochelle Stevens

1993–present USA Track & Field	1993: Jearl Miles 1994: Natasha Kaiser-Brown 1995: Jearl Miles 1996: Maicel Malone 1997: Jearl Miles Clark 1998: Kim Graham 1999: Maicel Malone 2000–1: LaTasha Colander-Richardson 2002: Jearl Miles Clark 2003: Sanya Richards 2004: Monique Hennagan 2005–6: Sanya Richards 2007: DeeDee Trotter 2008–9: Sanya Richards 2010: Debbie Dunn 2011: Allyson Felix 2012: Sanya Richards-Ross 2013: Natasha Hastings 2014: Francena McCorory 2015–6: Allyson Felix

Notes	OT: Since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event. Distance:The event was over 440 yards until 1932, 1955, 1957–8, 1961–3, 1965–6, 1969–70 and 1973–4

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