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Callum Priestley (born 13 February 1989) is a retired British track and field athlete who specialised in sprint hurdling.
Priestley served a two year competition ban from 2010 to 2012 for violating anti-doping rules after testing positive for clenbuterol.
He began competing in athletics while at school and finished second in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2005 English Schools' Athletic Association Championships. Progressing through the ranks at youth level, he represented Great Britain at the 2007 European Athletics Junior Championships and reached the hurdles final, although he did not finish the race. [1]
The 2009 season proved to be a breakthrough at national level as he took third in the 60 metres hurdles at the UK Indoor Championships. [1] He followed this with second-place finishes outdoors at the England U23 Championships and the UK World Trials/National Championships. [2] At the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships he won the bronze medal behind Artur Noga and compatriot Gianni Frankis, running a personal best time of 13.63 seconds. A win at the McCain UK Challenge Final in Cardiff meant he earned a share of the £5000 jackpot as he won his race and topped the event rankings in the national competition. [3] He gained lottery funding at the end of the year as part of the 2012 London Olympics development programme. [4]
The next season, he became the national champion indoors with a 60 m hurdles win in Sheffield. [5] [6]
Whilst training at UK Athletics winter camp in South Africa in January 2020, Priestly failed out-of-competition drugs test where the prohibited substance clenbuterol was found in his system. He was provisionally suspended in February 2010. [5] During an investigation, Priestley was unable to prove how he had ingested clenbuterol unintentionally and he was subsequently served with a two year competition ban in September 2010 that was in effect until February 2012. [4] [7] His ban also included a lifetime competition ban for representing Great Britain at the Olympics. [8]
Linford Christie is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter and athletics coach. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was the first European athlete to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m and held the British record in the event for close to 30 years. He is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100 m and 4 × 100 metres relay.
Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 21.69 metres, set in 2003. In 2013 he was banned from sports for life due to his second doping positive.
Olga Nikolayevna Yegorova is a Russian distance runner.
Rhys Williams, is a Welsh professional track and field athlete, specializing in the 400 m hurdles. He is a previous European champion in the event.
Amine Laâlou is a Moroccan track and field athlete, who specializes in middle-distance running. He has represented his country at the Summer Olympics on two occasions; in 2004 and 2008. He began his career as an 800 metres specialist and made his global debut at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. He won medals at smaller international competitions, including the 2004 Pan Arab Games and 2005 Mediterranean Games. He reached his first global final at the 2007 World Championships, taking sixth, and was a semi-finalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
John Bryan Bronson is an American 400-meter hurdler, who won the bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athens. He also represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He won three consecutive titles at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships from 1996 to 1998.
Josephine Onyia Nnkiruka is a track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. Born in Nigeria, she represented Spain at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The Men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, on August 16 and August 18, 2009. Keeping in line with previous major championships success, the four-man Kenyan team entered for the event contained a number of race favourites.
This article contains an overview of the year 2009 in athletics.
In 2010 there was no obvious, primary athletics championship, as neither the Summer Olympics nor the World Championships in Athletics occurred in the year. The foremost championships to be held in 2010 included: the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 2010 European Athletics Championships, 2010 African Championships in Athletics, and Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Pascal Mancini is a Swiss sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.
Chakir Boujattaoui is a Moroccan long distance runner who specialises in cross country running, and the 5000 metres and steeplechase on the track.
Jamel Chatbi is a Moroccan-born athlete who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase and competes for Italy.
Nigel Levine is a retired British sprint track and field athlete. Levine made a significant impact in his first season over 400m in 2007 recording 46.31 and in 2009 reduced that to 45.78. In 2010 he was part of the bronze medal GB 4 × 400 m team at the world indoor championships in Doha and in 2011 also won the European U23 crown as well as being part of the GB 4 × 400 m relay squad.
The 2017 IAAF World Championships, the sixteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 4 to 13 August at London Stadium in London, United Kingdom. London was officially awarded the championships on 11 November 2011.
Brianna Rollins-McNeal is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. She is the 2016 Olympic champion and the 2013 World champion in the 100 metres hurdles. Her time of 12.26 ties her as the seventh-fastest 100 metre hurdler in history.
Eric Kaiser is a retired Cameroonian-born German athlete who specialised in the sprint hurdles. He represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics as well as two World Championships. Earlier in his career he competed in the decathlon.
Bernice Wilson is a former British sprinter who represented her country at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships and served two bans from track and field athletics for anti-doping violations.
