Garrett Scantling

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Garrett Scantling

| image =

| caption =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|05|19}}

| birth_place = Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.

| height = 6 ft 3 in

| weight = 210 lb

| country = United States

| sport = Athletics (Track & Field)

| event = Decathlon

}}

Garrett Scantling (born May 19, 1993) is an American decathlete. He finished fourth at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the decathlon, after winning the US Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon.{{cite news | last=Freeman | first=Clayton | title=Garrett Scantling, from Episcopal School of Jacksonville, places fourth in Olympic decathlon | date=August 5, 2021 | url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/olympics/2021/08/05/garrett-scantling-jacksonville-fourth-decathlon-2021-tokyo-olympics-track-field/5483148001/ | work=jacksonville.com }}

Scantling is currently serving a three year competition ban issued in 2022 following a violation of anti-doping rules.

Early life

Scantling graduated from Episcopal School of Jacksonville| in 2011.{{cite web | title=Garrett Scantling | access-date=May 20, 2024 | url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/combine/_/id/106853/garrett-scantling | work=ESPN }}

Career

=Football=

Scantling caught 13 touchdowns for over 1,200 yards as a senior wide receiver in High School.{{Cite web |url=https://www.redandblack.com/sports/olympic-hopefuls-garrett-scantling-and-devon-williams-return-to-athens-tokyo-dreaming/article_16677918-a483-11ea-9ca7-c7445d03fe5a.html |title=Olympic hopefuls Garrett Scantling and Devon Williams return to Athens Tokyo Dreaming |first=William |last=Newlin |website=The Red and Black|date=June 2, 2020 }} He went on to study financial planning and services at the University of Georgia and subsequently worked as a financial adviser. After winning the 2015 NCAA indoor heptathlon but finishing fourth in the decathlon at the US Olympic trials in 2016 and therefore missing out on selection for the Summer Games in Rio, Scantling signed a free agent contract with the Atlanta Falcons as a wide receiver but never debuted in the NFL.{{Cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/olympics-decathletes-training-aid-estonians-11627902293 |title=The Top U.S. Olympic Decathlete's Training Aid? Estonians |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=August 2, 2021 |last=Bachman |first=Rachel}}

=Athletics=

In 2019 Scantling left his financial services job in Jacksonville and went to Athens, Georgia to his former UGA coach, Petros Kyprianou in order to concentrate on decathlon again. Scantling's first indoor competition in January 2020, he scored a heptathlon personal best of 6110 in Lexington, and followed that up a few weeks later with another personal best of 6209 to win at the US Indoor Championships in Annapolis, a world lead at the time and second overall in 2020, it was also the 8th best US mark of all time.{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/news/feature/garrett-scantling-decathlon-usa |title=Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's... Garrett Scantling |publisher=World Athletics}}{{Cite web |url=https://decathletesofeurope.co.uk/meetings/world-tour-of-decathlon-2020-in-review/ |title=World Tour of Decathlon: 2020 in Review |first=Gabby |last=Pieraccini |date=January 19, 2021}}

In April 2021, at a meet in Athens he improved his personal best with 8476 points in his first decathlon competition in nearly five years, personal bests in the long jump with 7.56m and in the shot put with 16.20m.{{Cite web |url=https://sprintnews.it/meeting/internazionali/grande-gara-decathlon-athens-georgia/ |title=Grande gara di decathlon ad Athens in Georgia - SprintNews.it |first=Diego |last=Sampaolo |date=April 12, 2021}} In winning the US Olympic trial decathlon Scantling scored 8647 points. At the 2020 Olympics decathlon in finishing fourth Scantling scored 8611 points {{Cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1457980-scantling-garrett.htm |title=Athletics SCANTLING Garrett - Tokyo 2020 Olympics |access-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806075333/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1457980-scantling-garrett.htm |url-status=dead }} including a 48.25 seconds personal best in the 400 metres,{{Cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-decathlon-400-000200-.htm |title=Athletics - 400m - Heat 2 Results |access-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806075334/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-decathlon-400-000200-.htm |url-status=dead }} and a personal best time in the 1500 metres of 4.35:54.{{Cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-decathlon-1500-000100-.htm |title=Athletics - 1500m - Heat 1 Results |access-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806075332/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-men-s-decathlon-1500-000100-.htm |url-status=dead }}

=Doping ban=

In July 2022, Scantling was given a provisional suspension for an anti-doping whereabouts and tampering violations.[https://www.usada.org/sanction/garrett-scantling-provisional-suspension/ U.S. Track and Field Athlete Garrett Scantling Accepts Provisional Suspension] In November 2022 he was banned from competing for three years backdated to June 27, 2022, the date of his third whereabouts violation in a twelve-month period.{{Cite web|url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2022/11/18/garrett-scantling-decathlon-suspension-ban/|title=Garrett Scantling, world's top decathlete, banned three years|website=Olympics.nbcsports.com|date=November 18, 2022 }}

=Personal bests=

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Event ! Performance ! Location ! Date ! Points
class="wikitable"
Decathlon	align=right \| 8,867 points	Fayetteville	May 7, 2022	align=center \|8,867 points
100 meters	align=right \| 10.53 (+1.8 m/s)	Eugene	June 29, 2021	align=center \|968 points
Long jump	align=right \| {{T&Fcalc\|7.68}} (+2.0 m/s)	Fayetteville	May 6, 2022	align=center \|980 points
Shot put	align=right \| {{T&Fcalc\|16.37}}	Serbia	March 18, 2022	align=center \|874 points
High jump	align=right \| {{T&Fcalc\|2.13}}	Fayetteville	March 13, 2015	align=center \|925 points
400 meters	align=right \| 48.25	Tokyo	August 4, 2021	align=center \|897 points
110 meters hurdles	align=right \| 13.59 (+1.0 m/s)	Fayetteville	March 18, 2022	align=center \|1,028 points
Discus throw	align=right \| {{T&Fcalc\|51.04}}	Fayetteville	May 7, 2022	align=center \|892 points
Pole vault	align=right \| {{T&Fcalc\|5.22}}	Athens, Georgia	April 10, 2021	align=center \|979 points
Javelin throw	align=right \| {{T&Fcalc\|69.37}}	Eugene	July 3, 2016	align=center \|880 points
1500 meters	align=right \| 4:35.54	Tokyo	August 5, 2021	align=center \|709 points
colspan=4 align=right\| Virtual Best Performance	align="center" \| 9,132 points

References

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Category:Doping cases in athletics

Category:21st-century American sportsmen