Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson is a Amerian Olympic Gold Medallist.

Born: July 7th 1975 in Atlanta,Georgia.

Height: 1.83m (6ft)

Weight: 116kg

Coached By: Carrie Lane

Training Partner: Reese Hoffa.

PBs: 22.40m Indoors

22.51m Outdoors

Olympic Medals: Gold in Athens 2004

Silver in Sydney 2000

Interesting Fact:

He was working at a concessions stand in the 1996 Olympics in his hometown Atlanta, 4 years before Olympic Silver.

He origionally won Silver at the 2004 Olympics before 9 years later Yuriy Bilonog tested positive for doping and Nelson was upgraded to Gold.