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{{short description|American long-distance runner}}
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| sport = [[Track and field#Running|Track]]
| event = [[10,000 meters]]
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
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| birth_name = Todd Dwayne Williams
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|3|7}}
| birth_place = [[Monroe, Michigan]]
| collegeteam = [[University of Tennessee]]
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| pb = '''[[5000 meters]]''': 13:19.50 <br> '''[[10,000m]]''': 27:31.34
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'''Todd Dwayne Williams''' (born March 7, 1969)<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/todd-williams-1.html |title=Todd Williams |access-date=2012-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418033545/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/todd-williams-1.html |archive-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> is a retired [[long-distance runner]] from the [[United States]], who represented his native country at two consecutive [[Summer Olympics]], starting in 1992. Williams was born in [[Monroe, Michigan]]. During high school he won the Michigan team race title twice. He was a two-time [[USA Cross Country Championships|United States cross country champion]], with victories in 1991 and 1993. He attended the [[University of Tennessee]] where he was an All-American for three years. 
Is also a Brazilian jiu-jitsu blackbelt under Luiz Palhares and runs an ASICS sponsored company known as RunSafer.

His personal bests were 13:19.50 in the [[5000 m]] and 27:31.34 in the [[10,000 m]]. He ran his marathon best of 2:11:17 in the 1997 [[Chicago Marathon]].  He is a five-time winner of the [[Gate River Run]] and set the current [[American records in track and field|American record]] over 15&nbsp;km at the event, running a time of 42:22 minutes for the distance. This is also the record for the whole of the [[List of North, Central American and Caribbean records in athletics|North American, Central American and Caribbean region]] (NACAC).

Williams also holds the 3rd-fastest [[half marathon]] time ever by an American of 60:11 which he ran in Tokyo in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mhmaraok.htm|title = Men's half-marathon}}</ref>

==International competitions==
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|1992
|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Barcelona, Spain]]
|10th
|[[Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres|10,000 m]]
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|1993
|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Stuttgart, Germany]]
|7th
|[[1993 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres|10,000 m]]
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|1995
|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Gothenburg, Sweden]]
|9th
|[[1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres|10,000 m]]
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|1996
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Atlanta, Georgia]]
|DNF
|[[Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres|10,000 m]]
|}

==References==
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* [http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2000/williamst.html USATF profile]

==External links==
*{{World Athletics}}

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[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Track and field athletes from Detroit]]
[[Category:American male long-distance runners]]
[[Category:Olympic male long-distance runners]]
[[Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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