Marlon Devonish

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Medal record
Men’s athletics
Olympic Games
Gold 2004 Athens 4x100 m relay
World Championships
Silver 1999 Sevilla 4x100 m relay
Bronze 2005 Helsinki 4x100 m relay
Bronze 2007 Osaka 4x100 m relay
Disqualified 2003 Paris 4x100 m relay
European Championships
Gold 2006 Gothenburg 4 x 100 m
Bronze 2002 Munich 200 m
Bronze 2006 Gothenburg 200 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold 2002 Manchester 4 x 100 m
Silver 2002 Manchester 200 m

Marlon Devonish (born June 1, 1976 in Coventry, England) is an English sprint athlete.

He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent years he has concentrated mostly on the longer distance. He has also been a regular member of both the British and, at the Commonwealth Games, English 4 x 100 metre sprint relay teams, to some considerable success.

The most notable achievement of his career to date came at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There Devonish, along with Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell and Mark Lewis-Francis, won a gold medal in the 4 x 100 m. relay, where the quartet defeated the pre-race favourites, United States team, by just 0.01 seconds, in a season's best of 38.07.

At the British Championships (and team trials for the 2006 European Championships) in July 2006, Devonish became the first man since Linford Christie in 1988 to win both the 100 m and 200 m races at the event.[1] At the championship finals, he took the bronze medal in the 200 m.

Devonish retained his 100 m title at the British Championships the following year. For the 2007 season Devonish improved his performance in the 100 m with a new personal best and competed in this event at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka rather than the 200 m which he had previously specialised in. Devonish finished 6th in the 100 m final.

[edit] Achievements

[edit] Personal bests

100 m: 10.06 (2007)

200 m: 20.19 (2002)

400 m: 46.83 (2000)

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Olympic champions in men's 4×100 m relay
2004 Great Britain Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis
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Post-war British Olympic champions in men's athletics
1956: Chris Brasher (3000 m steeplechase) | 1960: Don Thompson (50 km walk) | 1964: Ken Matthews (20 km walk) | 1964: Lynn Davies (long jump) | 1968: David Hemery (400 m hurdles) | 1980: Allan Wells (100 m) | 1980: Steve Ovett (800 m) | 1980 & 1984: Sebastian Coe (1500 m) | 1980 & 1984: Daley Thompson (decathlon) | 1992: Linford Christie (100 m) | 2000: Jonathan Edwards (triple jump) | 2004: Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis (4 x 100 m relay)


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