| The left hand photo above shows the happy Great Britain 4x100m team
celebrating after they had won the bronze medal in the final of the men's
4x100m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. The race finish
pictures show the closing few metres of the final, with Mark
Lewis-Francis (lane 7) astonishingly missing out to Jamaica's Asafa Powell
(lane 5) for the silver medal by just 1 hundredth of a second. The USA
(lane 4) won the gold medal in a time of 37.78 secs. |
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Men's 4x100m. Relay Final. 2007 World Athletics Championships.
1. United States (D. Patton; W. Spearmon; T. Gay; L. Dixon) 37.78
2. Jamaica (M. Anderson; U. Bolt; N. Carter; A. Powell) 37.89
3. GB & NI (C. Malcolm;
C. Pickering; M. Devonish; M. Lewis-Fr'cis)
37.90
4. Brazil (V. de Lima; R. Ribeiro; B. de Moraes; S. Viana) 37.99
5. Japan (N. Tsukahara; S. Suetsugu; S. Takahira; N. Asahara) 38.03
6. Germany (R. Ostwald; T. Unger; A. Kosenkow; J. Reus) 38.62
Poland (M. Bielczyk; L. Chyla; M. Jedrusinski; D. Kuc) DNF
Nigeria (O. Metu; C. U. Isaac; C. Oriala; O. A. Fasuba) DNF.
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The main photo above shows Craig during the heats of the men's 60m at
the 2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
Pickering went on to win the silver medal in the final and can be seen
about to cross the line (lane 5) in the inset picture. His fellow Briton
Jason Gardener (lane 3) won the gold medal and the Frenchman Ronald
Pognon the bronze.
Photos 4th. March 2007 by G. Herringshaw. ©
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Men's 60m Final.
2007 European Indoor Championships.
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| 1. Jason Gardener |
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GBR |
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6.51 |
| 2. Craig Pickering |
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GBR |
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6.59 |
| 3. Ronald Pognon |
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FRA |
|
6.60 |
| 4. Matic Osovnikar |
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SLO |
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6.63 |
| 5. Mikhail Yegorychev |
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RUS |
|
6.65 |
| 6. Fabio Cerutti |
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ITA |
|
6.65 |
| 7. Paul Hession |
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IRL |
|
6.68 |
| 8. Ryan Scott |
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GBR |
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DSQ |
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Competition record.
2003.
World Junior Championships, 100m – Bronze
2005.
European Junior Championships, 100m – Gold
2006
AAAs Under-23 Championships, 100m – Gold
World Championships, 100m – 11th.
2007.
European Indoor Championships, 60m – Silver.
European U23 Championships, 100m – Silver.
European Cup, 100m – Gold.
World Championships, 4 × 100 m – Bronze.
Personal best performances.
100 Metres 10.14 +0.2 Debrecen 13 JUL 2007
200 Metres 21.34 0.0 Abingdon 08 AUG 2004
200 Metres 21.34 -0.9 Gateshead 10 JUL 2010
Annual progress 100 metres.
2013 10.29 +1.6 Bedford 27 MAY
2011 10.19 +1.9 Bedford 16 JUL
2010 10.39 +0.7 Ostrava 27 MAY
2009 10.22 +0.5 Leverkusen 31 JUL
2008 10.15 +0.9 Rieti 07 SEP
2007 10.14 +0.2 Debrecen 13 JUL (PB)
2006 10.43 -0.5 Loughborough 21 MAY
2005 10.22 +1.1 Loughborough 22 MAY
2004 10.41 +1.3 Manchester 03 JUL
2003 10.53 +1.4 Sherbrooke 11 JUL