John Carew (sprinter)

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John Carew
Personal information
Born17 September 1952 (1952-09-17) (age 73)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best100 m – 11.11 (1980) [1]

John Carew (born 17 September 1952) is a retired sprint runner from Sierra Leone. He competed in the 100 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final. [1]

In 1974 Carew came from Sierra Leone to the Soviet Union to study at the Rostov Institute of Civil Engineering. He married a Russian woman in 1978 in Rostov, and had four children with her: Olah, Willy, Victor and Katerina Keyru. Olah became an actor, Willy a singer, while Victor and Katerina are international basketball players. John Carew later returned to Sierra Leone, after being awarded a degree PhD in technical sciences, leaving his family in Russia. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 John Carew Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine . sports-reference.com
  2. ↑ Abarenov, Dmitry (14 June 2011) Сладкие сны Кати Кейру. Баскетболистка сборной России мечтает о победе на Евро, море клубники и Поездке в сьерра-Леоне. sovsport.ru



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