Desai Williams

Desai Williams

Medal record
Men’s athletics
Representing Canada
Olympic Games
	1984 Los Angeles	4×100 m relay
Commonwealth Games
	1986 Edinburgh	4×100 m relay
	1982 Brisbane	4×100 m relay
Universiade
	1983 Edmonton	100 metres
	1983 Edmonton	4 x 100 m relay
Pacific Conference Games
	1981 Christchurch	4x100 m relay
	1981 Christchurch	100 metres
	1981 Christchurch	200 metres
Representing Americas
World Cup
	1985 Canberra	4x100 m relay

Desai Williams (born June 12, 1959 in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis) is a former sprinter from Canada, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Los Angeles 1984.

Competing at the two first World Championships, where he reached the semi-final (1983 and 1987), he set his personal best 200 metres time with 20.29 s in 1983 and his 100 metres personal best time of 10.11 s from a 6th-place finish at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.

Williams trained with the Scarborough Optimists Track Club, which was affiliated with the Ben Johnson scandal. Club coach Charlie Francis, working with Dr. Jamie Astaphan, had supplied performance-enhancing drugs to Johnson, Williams, Tony Sharpe, Angella Taylor, Mark McKoy and others.

Williams formerly worked as the speed coach for the Toronto Argonauts and was one of the most respected sprint coaches in eastern Canada, training Olympic athletes Tremaine Harris, Phylicia George and Justyn Warner, among others.

Williams was fired as a coach by Athletics Canada in 2015. A probe found that Williams had violated the organization's sexual harassment policy while a coach in 2010. In 2018, he was handed a life time ban by Athletics Canada.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
1983	World Championships	Helsinki	6th (sf)	200 m	20.71	wind +3.4

See also

• List of doping cases in athletics

References

• Desai Williams at World Athletics

Further reading

• Ormsby, Mary (2008-08-15). "Olympic stain is all but erased for Desai Williams". Toronto Star.