Michael McKillop
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27 January 1990 Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Glengormley, Belfast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 800 m, 1500m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | St Malachy's College, Belfast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Gerard McKillop (born 27 January 1990 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is an Irish middle distance runner and Paralympic athlete. He competes in the T37 classification, as he has a mild form of cerebral palsy.[1]
He won the 800m title at the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships, clocking just over 2:02. and he represented Ireland at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal at the T37 800 m clipping almost three seconds off his previous mark as he strode to an emphatic win in 1:59.41. His time was a Paralympic record. McKillop won the 800 m title at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in world-record time of 1:58.90, he also set a 1500 m world record but was not awarded a medal because of the lack of entries.[2][3] in the London 2012 Paralympics, McKillop won gold for the men's 800 meter t37 with a time of 1:57.22;[4] this was a world record. He won the 1500m T37 race in the 2012 London Paralympics. The medal was later presented to him by his mother, Catherine McKillop, an ambassador of Procter & Gamble.
He is coached by his father Paddy, who was awarded Northern Ireland Sports Coach of the Year. McKillop has a personal best in his preferred 800 metres of 1:57.22. [5][6][7]
In 2012, McKillop was awarded the The Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award.[8]
See also
- 2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom
References
- ↑ Haughey, John (2008-09-03). "McKillop mission". BBC News. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ "Michael McKillop wins gold medal at Paralympic Worlds". BBC News. 2011-01-28. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ O'Riordan, Tom (2011-01-29). "Athletics: McKillop breaks 800m world record to claim gold". Irish Independent. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ "McKillop storms to second gold". Irish Times. Retrieved 4-09-2012. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ "McKillop claims Irish gold at Paralympic Games". RTÉ Sport. 2008-09-23. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ "McKillop claims gold for Ireland". BBC News. 2008-09-10. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ Collins,, Siasy; Katarzyna Wilczynska (2008-09-10). "Ireland's Michael McKillop, smashes the 800m World Record and wins Gold at the Paralympics". europeanirish.com. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- ↑ Duncan Mackay (9 September 2012), Pistorius overlooked for London 2012 fair play award as Ireland's McKillop chosen, Inside the Games, archived from the original on 12 September 2012