Martyn Rooney

Martyn Rooney ( born April 3, 1987 London Borough of Croydon ) is a British sprinter who specializes in the 400 -meter run.

At the Junior European Championships 2005, he won gold in the relay and silver in singles. At the World Championships this year, he was only used in the relay, with which he finished fourth. Starting for England, he was fifth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He broke with his time of 45.51 s of the 20 -year-old British junior record of Roger Black. In the same year he won at the Junior World Championships, the bronze medal in both the individual competition as well as with the 4 × 400 m relay.

At the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka, he retired from the lead and finished the season in sixth place. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, he ran 44.60 s in the semi finals with the fastest time in all qualifying rounds; In the final, he was then treated with 45.12 s sixth. With the 4 × 400 m relay he finished fourth.

At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, he retired about 400 m from the semi-final and won silver in the relay. A year later at the European Championships in Barcelona, ​​he won bronze in the 400m and again silver team. At the 2011 World Championships Rooney reached in a single run is not the final, with the season he was seventh.

2012 reached Rooney at the Olympic Games in London in the domestic 400 - meter race in sixth and British in the relay to fourth place.

Martyn Rooney is 1,98 m tall and weighs 78 kg. He lives in Loughborough, where he studied sports science and management. Rooney starts for Croydon Harriers.