Crystal Cox

Crystal Cox

Personal information
Born	(1979-03-28) March 28, 1979 Durham, NC
Medal record Women's athletics Representing the United States Disqualified Athens 2004 4x400 m relay

Crystal Cox (born March 28, 1979 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American track and field athlete who was on the national team at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and appeared as a contestant on the seventeenth season of the reality series Survivor.

Career

Athletics

Cox won a gold medal in the women's 4x400 m relay at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, which was later stripped in 2012 after she admitted to doping. In Athens she ran in the preliminary round but not in the final. DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards and Monique Hennagan ran in the final. In 2004, she was the American indoor 200 m champion.

On January 29, 2010, the Associated Press and ESPN.com reported that Cox admitted to using anabolic steroids from 2001 to 2004. As a result, she forfeited all of her results from that time period, and agreed to a four-year suspension that ended in January 2014. IAAF has recommended that the whole U.S. women's 2004 Olympic 4x400 metres relay team be stripped of their medals.

Television

Cox was one of the contestants in Survivor: Gabon, which premiered in fall 2008.

Despite her Olympic training, Cox lost 12 of the 14 tribal challenges, though she made it to the final six. Her main alliance consisted of Kenny Hoang, Jessica "Sugar" Kiper, Susie Smith, and Matty Whitmore. On the December 11, 2008 episode, Cox was voted out and became the fifth member of the jury.

External links

• Crystal Cox profile at IAAF
• Crystal Cox at Trackandfield.com
• Crystal Cox biography for Survivor: Gabon at CBS.com
• [1] at nj.com