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Colin Jackson
Born
Colin Ray Jackson
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Colin Jackson
Medal record
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul 110 m hurdles
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Stuttgart 110 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 1999 Seville 110 m hurdles
Silver medal – second place 1993 Stuttgart 4x100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 1997 Athens 110 m hurdles
Bronze medal – third place 1987 Rome 110 m hurdles
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1990 Split 110 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 1994 Helsinki 110 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 1998 Budapest 110 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 2002 Munich 110 m hurdles
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1990 Auckland 110 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria 110 m hurdles

Colin Ray Jackson CBE (born February 18, 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh sprint and hurdling athlete of Jamaican and distant Scottish ancestry, who now works as a sports commentator and television presenter predominantly for the BBC.

Biography

Jackson attended Llanedeyrn High School playing football and cricket for the county and rugby and basketball for his school.

Under coach and close friend Malcolm Rodger Arnold he started out as a promising decathlete before switching to high hurdles. He set a new World Record on 110 metres hurdles the 20 August,1993 in Stuttgart, Germany with 12.91s. The record was equaled by Liu Xiang in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and finally beaten by the same man 11 July 2006 at the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne with a time of 12.88s. However, Jackson remains sole holder of the indoor world record at the 60 metre hurdles with a time of 7.30 seconds set in Sindelfingen, Germany on March 6, 1994.

Jackson was a master of the "dip" - the skill of leaning forward at the end of a race to advance the position of the shoulders and improve times (and potentially positions). He was also renowned for being a particularly fast starter, which led to a great deal of success in 60m events.

He was the subject of controversy in 1998 when he decided to run for cash in Tokyo, Japan, rather than compete in the Commonwealth Games for Wales.

Already the holder of the MBE that he received in 1990 for his services to athletics, in 1992 he was appointed CBE.

The English reggae band Aswad name-checked him on their hit song Shine: Him a floating like a butterfly, the hurdling man - Yes, me-a-chat about Colin Jackson.

Since ending his professional career Jackson has been a coach, in athletics and other areas. He coached the swimmer Mark Foster until Foster's retirement in April 2006. Since late 2006, he has coached two of Great Britain's top Olympic prospects, 400m runner Tim Benjamin and 400m hurdler Rhys Williams. He was also one of the members of the successful London 2012 Olympic bid team.

In 2005 he appeared as one of the celebrity contestants on the BBC TV series Strictly Come Dancing, where he displayed a natural lightness on his feet, and reached second place with his dance partner Erin Boag, after a neck-and-neck race in the final. He did, however, win the reunion Christmas special in 2006 in which contestants from various series appeared.

Colin Jackson took part in an episode of the BBC TV genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?,[1] broadcast in the UK on 20th September 2006. Of Jamaican descent, genetic tests showed his ancestry to be 55% African, 7% Native American (believed to be from Jamaican Maroon Ancestry on his father's side), and 38% European. His maternal grandmother was born, and died, in the West Indian community of Panama.[2]

Jackson's elder sister, Suzanne Packer is a television star in Britain, notable for playing 'Tess Bateman' in the BBC Television series Casualty.

Achievements

Year Tournament Venue Event
(all hurdles) 		Result Notes
1986 Commonwealth Games Edinburgh, Scotland 110 m 2nd
1987 World Championships Rome, Italy 110 m 3rd
European Indoor Championships Liévin, France 60 m 2nd
European Cup Prague, Czechoslovakia 110 m 2nd
1988 Summer Olympics Seoul, South Korea 110 m 2nd
1989 IAAF World Cup Barcelona, Spain 110 m 2nd
World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 60 m 2nd
European Indoor Championships The Hague, Netherlands 60 m

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European Cup Gateshead, England 110 m 1st
1990 Commonwealth Games Auckland, New Zealand 110 m 1st Games Record: 13.08s
European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 110 m 1st Championship Record: 13.18s
1991 European Cup Frankfurt am Main, Germany 110 m 1st Cup Record: 13.31s
1992 Summer Olympics Barcelona, Spain 110 m 7th
1993 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany 110 m 1st World Record: 12.91s
World Indoor Championships Toronto, Canada 60 m 2nd
European Cup Rome, Italy 110 m 1st Cup Record: 13.10s
1994 Commonwealth Games Victoria, Canada 110 m 1st Equalled Games Record: 13.08s
Goodwill Games Saint Petersburg, Russia 110 m 1st
European Championships Helsinki, Finland 110 m 1st Championship Record: 13.08s
European Indoor Championships Paris, France 60 m 1st Championship Record: 6.49s
60 m 1st Championship Record: 7.41s
Sindelfingen, Germany 60 m 1st World Record: 7.30s
1996 European Cup Madrid, Spain 110 m 2nd
1997 World Championships Athens, Greece 110 m 2nd
World Indoor Championships Paris, France 60 m 2nd
European Cup Munich, Germany 110 m 2nd
1998 European Championships Budapest, Hungary 110 m 1st Championship Record: 13.02s
IAAF World Cup Johannesburg, South Africa 110 m 2nd
European Cup St. Petersburg, Russia 110 m 1st
1999 World Championships Seville, Spain 110 m 1st
World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 60 m 1st Championship Record: 7.38s
2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester, England 110 m 2nd
European Championships Munich, Germany 110 m 1st
European Indoor Championships Vienna, Austria 60 m 1st Championship Record: 7.40s
European Cup Annecy, France 110 m 1st

References

  1. ^ "BBC ONE Autumn 2006". BBC. 2006-07-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ Nick Barratt, WDYTYA? Series three: Celebrity gallery - Colin Jackson, BBC History, 20 September 2006, accessed 27 September 2006

Bibliography

  • Colin Jackson: The Autobiography (BBC Books, 2003)


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Preceded by BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year
1988 		Succeeded by
Preceded by BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year
1993 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Men's European Athlete of the Year
1994 		Succeeded by
Preceded by BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year
1999 		Succeeded by
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