Greg Rutherford

Greg Rutherford in Hilversum, 2010

Gregory ( " Greg" ) James Rutherford ( born November 17, 1986 in Milton Keynes ) is an English athlete. At a height of 1.88 m his competition weight is 85 kg. He is best known as a long jumper. He holds the British record with 8.35 m. In 2012 he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in the long jump.

Life

Greg Rutherford is the great-grandson of English football international's Jock Rutherford. Although Aston Villa to Greg was interested as a football player when he was 14 years old, he opted for the Athletics. His club is the Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club. He is trained there, for example by Frank Attoh.

Achievements

In 2005 he won the British 18- year championship in the long jump as the youngest, to whom this ever succeeded. In the same year he won at the European Junior Championships in Kaunas with 8.14 meters, setting a British junior record. At the European Championships 2006 in Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium, he won the silver medal, and 8.13 m in Norwich again the British long jump championship ( with 8,26 m, one centimeter under the then British record by Christopher Tomlinson ). At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing's National Stadium, although it reached 8.16 m as the third-best of both qualifying groups the final, reached there, however, with 7.84 m with only two valid attempts merely to tenth place. He was in poor health: A day after the closing ceremony, he was admitted with almond, kidney and lung inflammation in a hospital. A new British record, he jumped at the World Athletics Championships 2009 in Berlin's Olympic Stadium with his jump of 8.30 m at 0.50 m / s headwind in qualifying. The record held until July 8, 2011, when Christopher Tomlinson himself brought him back with 8.35 m at the Meeting Areva. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi was Greg Rutherford with 8.22 m second behind Fabrice Lapierre. He won the long jump competition at the Prefontaine Classic ( part of the IAAF Diamond League) in the Hayward Field in Eugene in June 2011 at 8.32 m in front of Godfrey Mokoena Khotso, but with 2.1 m / s tail wind, which is why its local width not as British and personal record counts. In May 2012, he equaled 8.35 m in Chula Vista the British record Tomlinson.

His greatest achievement is to win the wide- jumping with 8.31 m at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

His Weitsprungbestweite in the hall is 8.00 m, which he jumped 8 March 2009 at the European Indoor Championships 2009 in Turin. His best time in the 100 - meter dash is 10.26 s, situated on 18 September 2010 by the Great North Games in Gateshead, an international match between England and Australia. In the 60 - meter dash in the hall his best time is 6.68 s, which he ran in Birmingham on 21 February 2009.

Awards

  • 2013: Member ( MBE) of the Order of the British Empire
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