Greene, Maurice (1974– )
World champion US sprinter Maurice Greene. Born in 1974, Greene won the Olympic 100-metre title in 2000, but in the previous year, he ran the distance in a world record 9.79 seconds, equalling the disqualified 1988 time of Ben Johnson. In 2001, he reclaimed his 100-metre title at the World Athletics Championships.
US athlete who held the 100-metre world record for six years after running 9.79 seconds in Athens, Georgia, in June 1999. A month later at the World Championships in Seville, Spain, he became the first person to win gold medals in both the men's 100 and 200 metres. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he won gold in the 100 metres and in the 4 × 100-metre relay. In 2001 he won his third consecutive 100-metre world title.
Career highlights
Olympic Games
gold 100 metres 2000; gold 4 × 100-metre relay 2000; silver 4 × 100-metre relay 2004; bronze 100 metres 2004
World Championships
gold 100 metres 1997, 1999, 2001; gold 200 metres 1999; gold 4×100-metre relay 1999
World Indoor Championships
gold 60 metres 1999
Born in Kansas City, Kansas, he first came to international prominence in 1997 when he won the 100-metre gold medal at the World Championships in Athens. Just as strong in indoor competition, in 1998 in Madrid, Spain, he broke the 60-metre world record with a run of 6.39 seconds – a time he equalled three years later in Atlanta.
Greene, Maurice (1696–1755)
| English organist and composer. By the time of his death, he had held all the major musical appointments in England, including organist at St Paul's Cathedral (1718), organist and composer of the Chapel Royal (1727), and Master of the King's Musick (1735). An inheritance in 1750 enabled him to devote time to a collection of English church music, which after his death was completed by William Boyce and published under the title Cathedral Music. |
| The son of a clergyman, Greene was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, studied the organ there under Richard Brind, and after holding church posts was appointed organist of St Paul's in 1718. On William Croft's death in 1727 he became organist and composer of the Chapel Royal, and in 1730 he succeeded Thomas Tudway as professor at Cambridge University. He was co-founder (with Michael Festing) of the Royal Society of Musicians in 1738. |
Works Sacred and choral over 100 anthems, the most notable published in Forty Select Anthems (1743), and other church music; oratorios The Song of Deborah and Barak (1732) and Jephtha (1737). |
Secular pastorals Florimel, or Love's Revenge (1734), The Judgement of Hercules, and Phoebe (1747); Odes for St Cecilia's Day and other occasions; miscellaneous songs and catches; overtures; organ voluntaries; harpsichord music. |
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