Norfolk State University Grad and Olympic Gold Medallist Tim Montgomery Sentenced to 5 Years for Distributing Heroin

Just as he left Blinn Junior College for Norfolk State University in 1994, Tim Montgomery left Olympic glory for the gutter. Today the Olympic gold medallist was sentenced to five years of imprisonment for distributing heroin.

According to the International Herald Tribune:

Former U.S. track star Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medallist now banned from the sport, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison on heroin charges.

Montgomery, once known as the fastest man alive, was sentenced in Federal court in Norfolk, Virginia for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin, according to a court document. He had pleaded guilty to the charges in July.

Montgomery won an Olympic gold medal in 2000 as a member of the U.S. 4x100-metre relay team. Two years later, he set a 100-metre world record of 9.78 seconds but that was erased from the record books after the U.S. anti-doping agency found he had received steroids. He was barred from competition in 2005.

Last May, Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months in prison for a check fraud and money laundering scheme in which he tried to deposit three checks worth $775,000.

For his transition from sports hero to heroin, Tim Montgomery has been stripped of his five Olympic medals. The man be able to run a world-class 100 meter relay, but he can’t run from the law for selling 100 grams of heroin.