Dean Macey

Dean Macey ( born December 12, 1977 in Rochford, Essex ) is a former British decathlete.

The extremely injury-prone Dean Macey has started a total of 14 ten fights in the twelve years of his career as a decathlete and completed all ten of them. In these ten competitions Dean Macey won four international medals and was twice Olympic fourth.

Dean Macey began as a triple jumper and as a footballer before 1995 entirely focused on the all-around. His first decathlon, he played in May 1996 in Bonn, with 7134 points, he won the competition. In his second ended Decathlon he was in August 1996 with 7480 points, second in the Junior World Championships in Sydney.

Only 1999 finished Macey after many injuries again a decathlon, when he was in Arles won an international match against France in May 8347 and came to points. After he had given at the U23 European Championships, he took up at the World Championships in Seville in August 1999. With 8556 points, he won silver behind the Czech Tomáš Dvořák ( 8744 points).

His next decathlon denied Dean Macey at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. With 8567 points, he was ranked 4 behind the Estonian Erki Nool ( 8641 ), the Czech Roman Šebrle ( 8606 ) and the US- American Chris Huffins ( 8595 ).

Until next decathlon passed back almost a year, because it is only at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton Dean Macey was back at the start. Tomáš Dvořák Behind ( 8902 ) and Erki Nool ( 8815 ) improved Macey in the sixth completed decathlon of his career for the sixth time his personal best and won with 8603 points Bronze.

In July 2004, Macey attempted a comeback after a long injury break and won in a competition in Hexham with 7842 points. This performance, with the B standard was met for the Olympic qualification enough to be nominated as the only British decathlete for the Olympic Games in Athens. He reached 8414 points as four years before place 4th novel Šebrle won with 8893 points ahead of the Americans Bryan Clay ( 8820 ) and the Kazakhs Dmitri Karpov ( 8725 ).

In March 2006, Dean Macey won his ninth decathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne with 8143 points.

After he clearly with 7491 points missed the Olympic standard for the Beijing Olympics two years later, he declared to his sports career ended. At a height of 1.96 m his competition weight was 96 kg.

Bests in the individual disciplines

In the 100 - meter dash Dean Macey was in 1999 in Arles with 10.65 s even faster, but at 2.2 m / s tail wind.