Atlanta native Christian Coleman, a junior at the University of Tennessee, sprinted to a pair of national championships Saturday at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in College Station, Texas.

Coleman won the 60 meters in 6.45 seconds, tying a meet record, and added the 200 meter title in a time of 20.11, one-hundredth of a second off the meet record.

Also, Coleman, a member of the U.S. track and field team in the 2016 Rio Olympics, talks Olympics, life -- and passing the ketchup -- with 1968 Olympian Mel Pender and the AJC's Steve Hummer.

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