Mark Dry

Mark Dry
Personal information
Nationality Scottish
Born (1987-10-11) 11 October 1987
Milton Keynes
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 113 kg (249 lb)
Sport
Country  Scotland
Sport Track and field
Event(s) Hammer throw
Club Woodford Green & Essex Ladies
Coached by Tore Gustafsson
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 76.93 m
Medal record
Men's athletics
Competitor for  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
2014 Glasgow Hammer throw

Mark Dry (born 11 October 1987) is a British track and field athlete, competing in the hammer throw, who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Career

He was born in Milton Keynes[1] In his earlier years he was a member of Elgin Amateur Athletics Club, where he began competing in hammer event in 2005.[2] In his first year he managed to come tenth in the country as an under-20 athlete. Since 2010, he represents the Woodford Green with Essex Ladies in National Championships,[3] and predominately competes in England or the United States. Although the top-ranked British athlete, he missed the 2013 World Championships in Athletics due to him having not achieved the B qualifying standard. UK Athletics selected him to receive support from the World Class Performance Programme for 2013-2014 because they judged him to have Olympic potential.[4] In 2013 his seasons' best throw of 74.46m was the best achieved amongst UK men.[5]

He has been one of the top three British hammer throwers since 2009 and in the British Championships has won a bronze medal in 2012 and silver in 2013. In the Scottish Championships he won gold in Kilmarnock in August 2014.[6]

In May 2015, he threw a distance of 76.93m which secured him the fifth spot in the all-time UK rankings.[7]

International competitions

He competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games but did not perform well, being placed sixth with 67.41 m, some seven metres short of his best of 74.82 m. He has also competed in the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships, but failed to live up to expectations and came eighth with a throw almost six metres off his best.

In 2014, competing for Scotland at the xx Glasgow Commonwealth Games, Dry came third in the Men's Hammer throw finishing behind Jim Steacey (Canada) and Nicholas Miller (England).[1]<ref name=Scot 30Jul2014">Bathgate, Stuart (30 July 2014). "Commonwealth Games: Dry on high with hammer bronze". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 January 2015. </ref>[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Athletics: Mark Dry: biography". http://results.glasgow2014.com. Retrieved 20 January 2015. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. 1 2 "Mark Dry". The Power of 10. UK Athletics. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Athlete profiles: Mark Dry". Scottishathletics. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "'World-class' cash boost for 12 Scottish athletes". BBC News (BBC). 14 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Ones to watch in 2014". Athletics Weekly. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Woods, Mark (18 August 2014). "Mark Dry hopes Olympic place is in his range". The Herald. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Mark Dry breaks Scottish hammer record at Loughborough International". The Herald. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.

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