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| full_name = Francena Lynette McCorory
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|10|20}}
| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web |title=Francena McCorory |url=https://www.teamusa.org/athletes/MC/Francena-McCorory |website=Team USA |publisher=[[United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221153804/https://www.teamusa.org/athletes/MC/Francena-McCorory |archive-date=December 21, 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| height = 5 ft 8 in
| weight = 150 lb
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'''Francena Lynette McCorory''' (born October 20, 1988) is
==Career==
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Despite being recruited by larger universities, McCorory attended her hometown school of [[Hampton University]]. She won the 2009 [[NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/NCAANewsArchive/2009/Division+I/lady%2bvols%2bshow%2bworld-class%2bdistance%2bdominance.html |title=NCAA News Archive – Lady Vols show world-class distance dominance |publisher=Fs.ncaa.org |date=2009-03-16 |access-date=2012-06-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817032754/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/NCAANewsArchive/2009/Division+I/lady%2Bvols%2Bshow%2Bworld-class%2Bdistance%2Bdominance.html |archive-date=2012-08-17 }}</ref> and later in the year finished third in the [[NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship]]s.<ref>[http://www.flashresults.com/2009_Meets/outdoor/NCAA/090610F023.htm Women 400 Meter Dash]. NCAA Division I 2009 Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Fayetteville, AR – 6/10/2009 to 6/13/2009</ref> In 2010, she went to [[Fayetteville, Arkansas]] to defend her championship. Instead of merely repeating as champion, she won the race by over a second, setting the NCAA record and beating [[Diane Dixon]]'s 19-year-old American record in the event, running 50.54.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://flashresults.com/2010_Meets/indoor/NCAA/Results19-2.htm |title=Flash Results, Inc |publisher=Flashresults.com |access-date=2012-06-09}}</ref> Later that year she won the NCAA Outdoor championship, in 50.69, actually slower than her Indoor record.<ref>[http://flashresults.com/2010_Meets/outdoor/NCAA/100609F023.htm Women 400 Meter Dash]. NCAA Division I 2010 Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Eugene, Or – 6/9/2010 to 6/12/2010</ref> A few weeks later, she improved her personal best to 50.52 while finishing second at the [[USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.usatf.org/events/2010/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/results/F6.asp |title=Events – 2010 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships |publisher=USATF |access-date=2012-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007215058/http://www.usatf.org/events/2010/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/results/F6.asp |archive-date=2012-10-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
After graduating Hampton, she improved her best to 50.49 again in second at the [[USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.usatf.org/events/2011/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/results/6-3.asp |title=Events – 2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships |publisher=USATF |access-date=2012-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007215102/http://www.usatf.org/events/2011/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/results/6-3.asp |archive-date=2012-10-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which qualified her for the [[2011 World Championships in Athletics]]. A month after that, she took her best down to 50.29 at the [[Herculis]] meet in [[Monaco]]. She took it down one more time to 50.24 in the semi-finals of the [[2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres|2011 World Championships in Athletics]]. In the finals, she wasn't quite as fast, finishing in fourth place in her first experience on the world stage. A few days later she anchored the United States team to a gold medal in the [[2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m relay]]. In 2016, individual 3rd place [[Anastasia Kapachinskaya]]'s 2008 Olympic samples were retested and found to have stanozol and turinabol. Being her second offense she was banned for life, disqualifying her position ahead of McCorory. In 2017, McCorory was advanced to the bronze medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/medal-reallocations-iaaf-world-championships|title=IAAF: Ennis-Hill and US
Leading into the [[2012 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)|Olympic Trials]], she improved her personal best to 50.06 at the [[Adidas Grand Prix]]. At the Olympic Trials, she qualified for the final and was assigned lane 7, just outside [[Sanya Richards-Ross]] in lane 6. Richards-Ross ran hard from the start closing down the stagger on McCorory. Sensing the challenge, McCorory exploded down the backstretch, leading around the turn to the head of the home stretch, but she paid the price for the early effort and struggled to the finish. Richards-Ross charged past her, in the process setting the best time of the year, followed by [[Dee Dee Trotter]], who made her third straight Olympic team. McCorory managed to hold off [[Debbie Dunn]] to claim third place and a trip to the Olympics.<ref>[http://www.legacy.usatf.org/events/2012/OlympicTrials-TF/Results/Results6-3.htm Women's 400 Meter Dash] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915130539/http://www.usatf.org/events/2012/OlympicTrials-TF/results/Results6-3.htm |date=2012-09-15 }}. 2012 Olympic Trials. usatf.org.</ref>
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==External links==
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* {{World Athletics
* {{USATF|Francena-McCorory}}
* {{USOPC|MC/Francena-McCorory}}
* {{Olympic Channel|francena-mccorory}}
* {{Twitter}}
{{Footer Olympic Champions 4x400 m Women}}
{{Footer World Champions 4 x 400 m Women}}
{{Footer USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics}}
{{Footer USA Track & Field 2016 Summer Olympics}}
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