NEW YORK (AFP) - Disgraced former 100m world record-holder Tim Montgomery was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison Friday for his role in a check fraud scheme that also led to the downfall of Marion Jones.

US District Court Judge Kenneth Karas imposed the sentence upon Montgomery, once considered the world's fastest man before being banned from athletics as a dope cheat and having his record-setting run stricken from the books.

Montgomery, facing a July trial in Virginia on heroine distribution charges, had pleaded guilty 13 months ago to conspiring to commit bank fraud and two counts of bank fraud in a counterfeiting scheme.

Jones, the mother of his son Tim Jnr, is serving a six-month prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to making false statements under oath about the fraud scheme and lying when saying she didn't take performance-enhancing drugs.

Also embroiled in the check scheme were Steve Riddick, the couple's former coach, and Charles Wells, their former agent.