McDonald Bailey

Emmanuel McDonald Bailey ( born December 8, 1920 in Williamsville, Trinidad, † December 4, 2013 ) was a star border for the United Kingdom sprinter who was successful after the Second World War.

He won a total of fourteen AAA championships:

Career

Already as a student of Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain, he ran in 1937 with 21.5 s over 220 y national record. A year later, the 17 -year-old took in the UK for the first time in a championship and arrived the intermediate run. Then the Second World War interrupted his career.

In 1944 he returned as a member of the Royal Air Force in England. He was invited to represent the UK in an international match against France. In the first postwar years, however, he started at the Central American and Caribbean Games in the Colombian Barranquilla again for Trinidad. As captain of his team, he won the bronze medal over 100 m as well as in the relay.

The end of 1947 he suffered a serious leg injury that was not completely healed the following year, so that the National Olympic Committee of Trinidad and Tobago renounced his nomination for the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Then he advised his father, who was represented even in TtoA to compete for the United Kingdom. He did so, and took over 100 m in sixth place ( 10.6 s )

In 1949 he was back in top form and placed in Reykjavík with 10.2 s over 100 m as the fourth runner the world record achieved in 1936 by Jesse Owens one. The organizers had failed to install the required for the recognition of records anemometer, so that two years passed before McDonald Bailey was allowed to register as a European record: On August 25, 1951, he passed the Yugoslav Belgrade, 100 meters again in 10.2 seconds back. With 9.6 s he already held the British 110- yards record.

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952, he launched more than 100 m, 200 m and the 4 x 100 - meter relay. About 200 m in 21.0 s he came to fourth place and added as a starter for the British 4x100m relay team added another fourth place. About 100 m, however, he had more luck: After the first four runners were stopped with 10.4 s, the photo finish had to decide. Bailey was awarded the bronze medal behind the outsider Lindy Remigino and Herb McKenley.

After finishing his sports career, he went to British Guiana, where he worked for the company said that they would. On his return to Trinidad, he was for the National Energy Corporation and Shell Oil Company operates. As a member of the London Institute of Journalists, he commented to the BBC, the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970 in Edinburgh. At the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, he participated as coach of the national team of Trinidad and Tobago.

In 1977, he was honored for his sporting achievements with the Chaconia Gold Medal. Its merit is in particular the propagation of long- distance running as a training tool.

McDonald Bailey lived most recently in Port of Spain.