Editing Maurice Greene (sprinter) (section)

===World record holder and athletic prime===
In 1999 he set the 100 m world record at 9.79 s (+0.1&nbsp;m/s wind), beating [[Donovan Bailey]]'s standing world record of 9.84 s (+0.7&nbsp;m/s wind), and lowering the world record by the largest margin since the advent of electronic timing. Greene also matched Bailey's 50 m indoor world record time, but the run was never ratified. He also set the 60 m indoor world record twice. His 60 m indoor record is currently at 6.39 seconds. In addition, Maurice Greene was the only sprinter to hold the 60 m and 100 m world records at the same time. The previous [[IAAF]] logo was created in Greene's image.

In 2002, Greene lost his 100 m world record to fellow American [[Tim Montgomery]], who beat his time by 0.01 (9.78 s +2.0&nbsp;m/s), while Greene himself was injured and watched the race from the stands; Montgomery has since been found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs, and his record has been retroactively rescinded. The record was broken legitimately by [[Asafa Powell]] in 2005 with a time of 9.77 s (+1.6&nbsp;m/s wind).

At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in Athens, Greene added to his medal tally with the bronze after finishing third in his attempt to defend his 100 m title to Justin Gatlin, and a silver as the anchor leg runner on the United States 4 × 100 m relay team, narrowly denied another Olympic Gold by the British team, who won by 0.01 seconds.

Greene ran 52 sub-10-second 100 m races during his career, which at the time was more than any other sprinter in history. This record has now been surpassed by [[Asafa Powell]] who has 97 100 m sub-10-second runs to his name and [[Justin Gatlin]] who has 64 100 m sub-10-second runs to his name and equalled by [[Usain Bolt]] who has the same amount of sub-10-second runs with 52.<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=O/age=N/season=0/sex=M/all=y/legal=A/disc=100/detail.html IAAF All Time 100 Metre list]</ref> Previously Greene had held the record for the most wind-legal sub-10-second clockings for 100 m in one season when he ran 9 sub-10s in 1999. This record was also broken by Asafa Powell in 2006 (12), and it was improved by Powell in 2008 to 15.

On December 21, 2006, he appeared as one of the "strangers" on the [[NBC]] game show ''[[Identity (game show)|Identity]]''. The contestant, a self-professed track and field fan, incorrectly identified him by name as [[Marion Jones]], although she identified him as the "world's fastest man."