| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) |
| Born | 14 October 1962 Sheffield, England |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | long-distance |
| Club | Hallamshire Harriers |
Carl Edward Thackery (born 14 October 1962) is a retired British long-distance runner, who competed in the 1980s and 1990s. His daughter Calli Hauger-Thackery is an international marathon runner.
Thackery was born in Sheffield and was a member of the Hallamshire Harriers of Sheffield. He became the Yorkshire champion and set a British six mile road race record in August 1985. [1]
He finished 14th in the 1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres, won team silver at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race (where he finished 20th), [2] and won team silver at the IAAF World Road Relay Championships in 1986, helping to set a UK record for the road marathon relay in the process. [3] [4]
He represented England in the marathon event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. [5] [6] [7]
At a domestic level, he was the British 10,000 metres champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1991 AAA Championships. [8] and the English Inter-Counties Cross Country champion in 1987. [9]
He ran twice for Great Britain in the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, finishing 16th and winning team silver in 1992 and winning individual and team bronzes in 1993. [10]
Thackery won a number of prestigious international road races, including the City-Pier-City Half Marathon in The Hague, [11] the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon (twice), [12] the 15 km Seven Hills Race (Zevenheuvelenloop) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, [13] the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington DC, [14] the Trevira Twosome 10 miles in New York Central Park, [15] the Jean Bouin Memorial in Barcelona (twice), [16] and La Matesina 10 km in Bojano/Italy. [17] In the UK, he won the Nike Blaydon Race in 1998 [18] and ran world-class sub-46.40 min times when winning the Brampton-Carlisle and Erewash 10 miles in 1991 and 1992 respectively. [19] Thackery also won two Grand Prix track races in 1987 – the 10,000 metres at the Paris BNP meeting [20] and the one-hour event at the Herculis meeting in Monaco. [21] His half-marathon personal best of 61 min 04 sec ranked him first in the world in 1987. [22] Thackery set the British and Commonwealth records for 20,000 metres and one hour on the track at La Flèche in France in 1990. [23] [24]
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