Profile
400m, T54
Funding: World Class Podium
DOB: 05 June 1979
Born: Wallington
Lives: Wallington
Club:
Contact: Emma Purdue, Positive Media and Management
Coach: Jenny Archer
International Highlights
2004 Paralympics Athens 100m silver, 200m bronze, 2005 European Championships Espoo 100m Bronze, 200m Silver, 400m Gold, 2005 World Championships (non disabled) Helsinki 100m and 200m Gold (demonstration), 2006 World Championships Assen 100m, 400m and 1500m Gold, 200m silver, 2006 European Championships (non disabled) Gothenburg 1500m Gold,
Flora London Marathon Gold 2002, 2006-07, Silver 2003,
Bronze 2004 and 2005
Personal Bests
100m 14.13 Paralympic Records (2006), 200m 24.49 World, European Records (2006), 400m 46.11 World, European Records (2006), 800m 1.33.09 British Record (2007)
1500m 2.55.72 WR (2007), 5000m 9.54.82 WR (2007), Marathon 1 hour 27.46 (2007)
Career summary
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David,a keen Arsenal fan, took up athletics at the age of eight and competed at Atlanta 96 as a 17-year-old, after which he took a break from the sport and missed the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.
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His breakthrough year was 2006 where he set World records over 200m and 400m and took a hat trick of Gold at the World Championships. He won the Best Performance in a British Vest award at the British Athletics Writers Association awards ceremony.
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In 2007 he beat Australian Kurt Fearnley in the Flora London Marathon - the current Paralympic champion who had been undefeated over the distance for several years previously.
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He works part time as a DJ.
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