Delisa Walton-Floyd, Date of Birth
TweetDelisa Walton-Floyd
American middle distance runner
Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1961
Profession: athletics competitor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Delisa Walton-Floyd
- Delisa Walton-Floyd (born Delisa Walton, 28 July 1961) is a former World-Class middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres; she was a two-time National Collegiate champion, and two-time U.S.
- Open champion in her event.
- Delisa Walton-Floyd represented the United States at the 1987 Pan American Games; winning a silver medal at 800 meters.
- Walton-Floyd also competed at the World Championships in 1987 and 1991; advancing to the semi-final on both occasions.After finishing second at the 1988 U.S.
- Olympic Team Trials, Walton-Floyd reached the pinnacle of her career at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
- During a very close final race, Walton-Floyd produced a lifetime best performance of 1:57.80 to finish in fifth place - less than a second from a bronze medal. Walton-Floyd is a 1983 graduate of the University of Tennessee, where she earned accolades as an All-American track and field athlete for the Volunteers.
- A native of Detroit and a 1979 graduate of Mackenzie High School, Delisa Walton-Floyd won a total of five individual State Titles - leading her Mackenzie Stags to a State Track and Field Team Championship in 1978.
- She set the still standing NFHS national high school records in the 880 yard run at 2:07.7.
- The federation converted record-keeping to metric distances shortly afterward.
- Fittingly, Walton-Floyd was voted by Michigan sportswriters as 1978 High School Track and Field Athlete of the Year.In 1991 she was tested positive for amphetamine and suspended.
- She claimed she took a drug called Sydnocarb which the United States Olympic Committee's Drug Hotline had assured her to be legal after her inquiry.
- A lawsuit that she filed against the USOC had no success.
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