5th 2003 World Outdoor 200m champion & 4x100m relay gold medalist; 2000 Olympic Trials 200m champ; 2003 USA Indoor 200m champ; 1999 NCAA Outdoor 200 champ.

After spending two years out of the sport, Capel returned with a vengeance in 2003, winning the world outdoor championships 200 meters, running lead-off for the gold medal 4X100m relay and being world #1 ranked in both the 100 and 200m by Track & Field News. Capel burst onto the world scene in spectacular fashion in 1999 when he ran 19.87 for 200m while at the University of Florida. Capel’s 2000 best in the 200m of 19.85 at the U.S. Olympic Trials was #2 in the U.S. to Michael Johnson’s 19.71…Faltered out of the blocks during Olympic final costing him valuable time. On his decision to quit football for track during the Olympic year, Capel said ‘I really wanted to concentrate on making the Olympic team, and I didn’t think I could do that with the other pressures I had’. An August 29, 2000 story in USA Today told how citizens in Capel’s hometown of Brooksville, Fla., raised $29,000 enabling Capel’s parents (Rev. John Sr. and Virginia) to travel to Sydney for the Games. He and his wife Sandy have two children, Janya and Serenity.

2004: 5th in 100m at Olympic Trials (10.02)…6th in 200m at Olympic Trials (20.72)…runner-up at USA Indoors 60m (6.52)… 1st in 100m at adidas Oregon (10.07)…3rd in 100m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (9.95PR)… 3rd in 100m at Payton Jordan US Open (10.07w)…2nd in 200m in Mexico City (20.34)… 6th in 60m at adidas Boston Indoor Games (6.68)…2nd in 60m at Verizon Millrose Games (6.65)…ranked #8 world, #4 U.S. at 100m, #6 U.S. at 200m by T&FN…bests of 9.95PR & 20.24.

2003: World Outdoor 200m champion (20.30)…ran lead leg on Team USA gold medal winning 4x100m relay at World Outdoors (38.06)…2nd in the 200m at USA Outdoors (20.17)…USA Indoor 200m champion (20.69)…3rd in 60m at USA Indoors (6.49)…did not compete at World Indoors (injured hamstring)…2nd in 60m at Tyson Invitational (6.48)…1st in race #1 in Zurich (9.97PR)…2nd at adidas Oregon Track Classic Outdoors 100m (10.28)…4th at Home Depot Invitational (10.11)… 1st in Lausanne (20.04)…1st at Golden Gala race#1(10.04)…bests of 9.97PR & 20.04…ranked #1 in the world at 100m & 200m by T&FN.

2000: Won Olympic Trials 200 in a PR 19.85...8th in 200m final in Sydney (20.49) after faltering out of the blocks; Placed 2nd in the NCAA Indoor 200, running 20.26, which broke the old American indoor record...withdrew from the University of Florida in April... second at adidas Oregon Track Classic 100 (10.21)... ranked #6 in the world (#1 U.S.) in 200m...bests of 10.12 in a heat at the Olympic Trials and 19.85 (#2 in U.S.).

— Courtesy of usatf.org