name	Kelly Sotherton
fullname	Kelly Jade Sotherton
nationality
birth date	November 13, 1976
birth place	Newport
website	www.websitename.com
sport	Athletics
event	HeptathlonLong Jump400m
worlds	3rd (2007)
regionals	7th (2006)
olympics	3rd (2004)
medaltemplates	}}

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Kelly Jade Sotherton (born 13 November 1976) is an English heptathlete and 400m sprinter. She was the bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was fourth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also was a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, and was the heptathlon gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In November 2010, she announced her decision to retire from the heptathlon, due to foot and back injuries. After considering " the Rebecca Romero route" she then chose instead to focus on the 400 m.

Sotherton was born in Newport on the Isle of Wight. As a teenager, she played netball for Hampshire, but also won two English Schools’ championships in the heptathlon.

She moved to the Midlands in order to train with 2000 Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis. She made her senior British team debut in 2002. She is a member of Birchfield Harriers athletics club.

The javelin throw is considered her weakest discipline and has been cited as the main reason for her lack of medals at the 2005 World Championships and 2006 European Championships.

Personal life

Sotherton trains at the grounds of the athletics club Birchfield Harriers, which is based in Birmingham, England. She was educated at Ryde High School and Brunel University.

2004

She gained international recognition in 2004 when she unexpectedly won a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens behind Carolina Klüft (gold) and Austra Skujytė (silver), scoring 6424 points and finishing ahead of defending Olympic champion Lewis, who dropped out due to injury.

She was famously criticised for settling the bronze medal instead of chasing the silver in the final event, the 800m, by her coach Charles van Commenee.

2005

In March 2005 she competed in the European Indoor Championships, where she took silver once again behind Klüft.At Götzis, Austria in May Sotherton was again beaten into second, behind the Swede, but she did record a personal best of 6547 points.At the AAA's National Championship in July, Sotherton competed in four individual events and took her first senior national title, winning the long jump with a jump of 6.48 metres.At the 2005 World Championships Sotherton had held a medal position going into the sixth event, despite some below average performances, but a disastrous javelin saw her drop out of contention. Sotherton did manage to knock nearly 2.5 seconds off her personal best to win the final 800 m, but despite closing the overall gap on those ahead she only finished fifth.

2006

In March 2006 Kelly Sotherton competed for England in the hepathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. She took gold with a score of 6396, ahead of Kylie Wheeler of Australia (silver) and her team mate Jessica Ennis (bronze).

In August 2006 she competed for Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the hepathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She came seventh ahead of her team mate Jessica Ennis, after a disappointing javelin event caused her to drop from second.

2007

2007 saw Great Britain host the European Indoor Championships, in Birmingham.

Carolina Klüft led after the hurdles, but Sotherton and compatriot Jessica Ennis trailed closely behind. The high jump saw Ennis take the lead over Klüft and Sotherton, with a jump of 1.91, but Sotherton set a personal best for indoors of 1.88. Seven points separated Klüft and Sotherton. In the shot put, Sotherton took a two-point lead ahead of defending champion Klüft. The long jump saw Klüft take a 24-point lead over the Briton. In the 800 m, a strong event for Sotherton, she needed to take 1.6 seconds from Klüft to see her beaten for the first time since 2002. Sotherton set a personal best 2:12.54, but Klüft also underscored her previous mark to win by 17 points. This was her smallest winning margin ever. Sotherton took silver, and Karin Ruckstuhl the bronze. In one of the best pentathlons of all time, many athletes set national records and Klüft and Sotherton rose to second and fourth on the all-time lists respectively. Sotherton also set a Commonwealth record by 200 points.

In 2007, the World Championships were held in the Japanese city of Osaka. Sotherton started the first day with a personal best of 13.21 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles. She then came within a centimetre of her personal best in the high jump with a 1.86 m performance. A season's best of 14.14 m followed in the shot put and Sotherton ended the day with a second personal best in the 200 m, with 23.40. On the second day, Sotherton hit 6.68 m in the long jump, to stay in medal contention, but again the javelin saw a weak performance, with Sotherton throwing just 31.90, finishing last. However, Sotherton put in a strong performance in the 800 m, running 2:11.58 to just beat teammate Jessica Ennis to the bronze medal, with 6,510 points.

2007 World Championships Results (August 25–26)

!Event	!Result	!Position	!Points	!Overall Position	!Extra
100 metres hurdles	13.21 secs (PB)	3rd (PB)	1093	3rd	Jessica Ennis wins (12.97, PB); Carolina Klüft 2nd (13.15, PB) (both ran in her heat)
High Jump	1.86 m	4th	1054	4th	Carolina Klüft wins (1.95 m, PB); Jessica Ennis is 3rd (1.89 m)
Shot put	14.14m (SB)	9th	803	3rd
200 metres	23.40 secs (PB)	3rd	1039	3rd
Long jump	6.68m (PB)	3rd	1066	3rd
	31.90m (SB)	32nd	513	4th
800 metres	2:11.58	3rd	942	3rd	Sotherton lead for most of the way, but Jessica Ennis proved stronger to win the race in 2:11.39.
Heptathlon			6510	3rd	Klüft set a European Record of 7,032 to win from Blonska, while Ennis finished fourth.

2008–09

In February 2008, Sotherton competed in a three-event triathlon, at the Indoor Grand Prix, in Birmingham, against a field including Carolina Klüft.

Sotherton started with a below-par performance in the long jump, allowing Klüft to take the lead. Sotherton then won the 60 m hurdles in a personal best of 8.17 seconds. Despite running a personal best (and the fastest time by a Briton that season) of 52.47 seconds in the 400m, Sotherton took second behind Klüft, who won by 18 points.

After Klüft pulled out of the World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Sotherton became favourite for the gold medal. She lived up to expectation in the 60 m hurdles, winning in 8.25 seconds. However, Sotherton put in a well below-par berformance in the high jump, achieving only 1.81 m, against Tia Hellebaut's 1.99 m., and Sotherton slipped to third and then to fifth after the shot put. Sotherton then won the long jump with 6.45 m, moving into second, behind Hellebaut, who set a Belgian record of 6.41 m. Hellebaut held a considerable lead entering the final event, the 800 m. Sotherton needed to beat the Belgian by 7.7 seconds to win gold. Sotherton set a personal best of 2:09.95, with Hellebaut collapsing over the line in 2:16.42, 6.47 seconds behind Sotherton, and the Briton had to again settle for silver.

After Klüft's retirement from heptathlon in 2008, Sotherton had been tipped by many people to take gold at the 2008 Olympics, including Klüft herself. However after a disappointing performance she could only manage 5th place in the competition. Lyudmila Blonska was later disqualified for failing a doping test and Sotherton was upgraded to fourth. She had previously labelled Blonska a cheat, and questioned the validity of Blonska's silver medal at the World Championships in 2007. She was also part of the 4 × 400 m relay team which finished fifth in the final.

The following year, Sotherton struggled with injuries and although she was selected for the 2009 European Indoor Championships she had to withdraw due to heel problems. Despite recovering from this injury, her 2010 season was also ruined by injury as her back problems recurred.

2011

Sotherton completed "the first step of her reinvention as a 400m specialist", with a victory in the 400m final in 53.46 sec, at the English Institute of Sport - Sheffield indoor arena on 13 February 2011. Overcome at her win, she explained a temporary breakdown at trackside; " When I prolapsed the disc in my back it was career-threatening. I had to make a decision whether to end my career or try something new." It was Sotherton's first national title in a track event.

Personal bests

! Event	! Data
200 m	23.39 secs
400 m (indoor)	52.47 secs
800 m	2mins 07.94 secs
100 m hurdles	13.18 secs
High jump	1.87 m
Long jump	6.79 m
Shot put	14.66 m
Javelin	40.81 m
Pentathlon (indoor)	4927 points
Heptathlon	6547 points

Achievements

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References

External links

MTC Talent profile

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Sotherton is a dispersed village in Suffolk, England, located approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Beccles and 3¾ miles (6 km) north east of Halesworth close to the A145. The mid-2005 population estimate for Sotherton parish was 70. Uggeshall is located just to the north-east and Blythburgh to the south-east.

The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew and is located on a small dead-end lane signposted off the A145. It is a Grade II* listed building.

References

External links

Blyford and Sotherton Parish Council

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name	Christian Malcolm
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sport	Running
event	200 metres
birth date	June 03, 1979
birth place	Cardiff, Wales
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}} }} Christian Sean Malcolm (born June 3, 1979) is a Welsh athlete, specialising in the 200m.

Malcolm was born in Cardiff and resides in Newport, Wales. He won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and in the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 200m in 20.44 seconds. At that year's Commonwealth Games, his 20.29 for the silver medal was a European Junior and Welsh senior record.

He took the 2000 European Indoor gold medal in 20.54, for a Welsh Indoor record. Outdoors he led off for the sprint relay team on the first day and ran a season's best of 20.45 to win the 200m on the second day at the European Cup. He went on to 2nd at the AAAs and to excel at the 2000 Olympics to take fifth place at 200m in 20.23.

In 2001 he took the World Indoor silver medal. Outdoors he was 3rd at 100m and 2nd at 200m at the AAAs and at the World Championships ran eight races to make the finals at both 100m and 200m, finishing 6th and 5th respectively. He also competed as part of the relay team, however, the baton was dropped in the heats.

After four second places at the AAAs, he at last won the 200m in 2005 in a narrow decision over Marlon Devonish and was also 3rd at 100m. He surprised even himself with a brilliant win at the European Cup in 20.15, his best time for five years.

Malcolm represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 200 metres and placed second in his first round heat after Brian Dzingai in a time of 20.42 seconds. He improved his time in the second round to 20.30 seconds and placed fourth in his race, normally not enough to advance to the semi finals, but his time was among the four fastest losing times and he qualified after all. With 20.25 in his semi final race he even managed to qualify for the final, finishing fourth in his race, eliminating Paul Hession and Christopher Williams. In the final he came in seventh at 20.40 seconds, but as a result of the disqualifications of Churandy Martina (second) and Wallace Spearmon (third) he moved up to the fifth place overall.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Malcolm, representing Wales, was one of the favourites to win the men's 200m, and took the bronze medal.

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name	Marlon Devonish
nationality
sport	Running
event	100 metres, 200 metres
birth date	June 01, 1976
birth place	Coventry, England
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pb	100m: 10.06 s (Lausanne 2007) 200m: 20.19 s (Manchester 2002)
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Marlon Ronald Devonish, MBE (born 1 June 1976) is an English sprint athlete.

He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent years he has concentrated mostly on the longer distance. He has also been a regular member of both the British and, at the Commonwealth Games, English 4 x 100 metre sprint relay teams, to some considerable success. He is a current Commonwealth Games record holder in the relay event.

The most notable achievement of his career to date came at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There Devonish, along with Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell and Mark Lewis-Francis, won a gold medal in the 4 x 100 m. relay, where the quartet defeated the pre-race favourites, United States team, by just 0.01 seconds, in a season's best of 38.07.

At the British Championships (and team trials for the 2006 European Championships) in July 2006, Devonish became the first man since Linford Christie in 1988 to win both the 100 m and 200 m races at the event. At the championship finals, he took the bronze medal in the 200 m.

Devonish retained his 100 m title at the British Championships the following year. For the 2007 season Devonish improved his performance in the 100 m with a new personal best and competed in this event at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka rather than the 200 m which he had previously specialised in. Devonish finished 6th in the 100 m final.

Devonish represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar and Craig Pickering. In their qualification heat they were disqualified and eliminated. He also took part in the 200 metres individual, finishing first with a time of 20.49 seconds in his first round heat. With 20.43 seconds in his second round he only placed fourth in his heat, but his time was among the four best losing times and enough to qualify for the semi finals. There he came to 20.57 seconds and the seventh time in his race, which was not enough for the final.

He competed at the 2009 Manchester City Games, finishing second in the 150 metres final in 15.07 seconds. He was beaten by Usain Bolt who ran a world best-beating time.

On 22 August 2009, Devonish was a member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland men’s 4x100m relay team team that took bronze at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin with a season’s best of 38.02. Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Simeon Williamson and Tyrone Edgar ran the other legs.

Achievements

Competition record

! Year	! Competition	! Venue	! Event	! Place
	rowspan=2		100 m
200 m
1997		Turku, Finland	100 m
1998		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4 x 100 m relay
		Paris, France	4 x 100 m relay
	Seville, Spain	4 x 100 m relay
	rowspan=2		200 m
4 x 100 m relay
	Munich, Germany	200 m
2003		Birmingham, England	200 m
2004		Athens, Greece	4 x 100 m relay
2005		Helsinki, Finland	4x100 m relay
	rowspan=2
4x100 m relay
2007		Osaka, Japan	4x100 m relay

Personal bests

! Distance	! Time	! Wind	! Location	! Date
100m	10.06 sec	+ 1.3 mps	Lausanne	! 10 July 2007
200m	20.19 sec	+ 1.4 mps	Manchester	! 29 July 2002

References

External links

'Marlon hails sprint revival' - BBC.co.uk, 29 August 2004

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Nathan James Douglas (born 4 December 1982 in Oxford) is an English athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg with a jump of 17.21 metres. He suffered a major injury in 2007 and, although he managed to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he struggled to find form as the injury had upset his technique.

His personal best is 17.64 m (2005).

Achievements

{| |- !colspan="6"|Representing and |- |rowspan=2|2005 |European Indoor Championships |Madrid, Spain |align="center" | 4th |Triple jump | |- |World Athletics Final |Monte Carlo, Monaco |align="center" | 6th |Triple jump | |- |rowspan=2|2006 |World Indoor Championships |Moscow, Russia |align="center" | 7th |Triple jump | |- |European Championships |Göteborg, Sweden |bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd |Triple jump |17.21 m |- |2007 |European Indoor Championships |Birmingham, England |bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd |Triple jump | |- |2008 |Olympic Games |Beijing, China |20th |Triple jump | |- |2010 |European Championships |Barcelona, Spain |10th |Triple jump |16.48 m |}

References

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gbrathletics

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