Marlon DEVONISH

Great Britain & N.I.

Marlon Devonish - Great Britain & N.I. - Finalist at the 2007 World Championships.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 26 August 2007

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Tuesday, 01 June 1976
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Windsor, England.
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • Great Britain & N.I.
    • Event(s)
      100m, 200m, 4x100m
    • Championship Performances
      Olympics: 2004 Gold 4x100m.
      Worlds:
      1999 silver 4x100m, 2005, 2007 & 2009 bronze 4x100m.
      European: 2002 bronze 200m, 2006 bronze 200m, Gold 4x100m.
      Commonwealth:
      1998 Gold 4x100m, 2002 silver 200m, Gold 4x100m, 2010 Gold 4x100m.
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Marlon DEVONISH - Great Britain & N.I. - Finalist at the 2007 World Championships.

The race finish photo above show the closing stages of the men's 100m at the 2007 World Championships

in Osaka. Marlon (lane 7) finished in 6th place in a time of 10.14 secs, with Tyson Gay (lane 5) taking gold,

Derrick Atkins (lane 6) silver and Asafa Powell (lane 4) bronze.

The right and left hand pictures show Devonish during the 100m heats.


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Men's 100m. Final.

2007 World Athletics Championships

1. Tyson GAY   USA   9.85
2. Derrick ATKINS   BAH   9.91
3. Asafa POWELL   JAM   9.96
4. Olusoji A. FASUBA   NGR   10.07
5. Churandy MARTINA   AHO   10.08
6. Marlon DEVONISH   GBR   10.14
7. Matic OSOVNIKAR   SLO   10.23
8. Marc BURNS   TRI   10.29

 

 

 

The left hand photo above shows the happy Great Britain 4x100m team celebrating after they had won the bronze meda

l in the final of the mens  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) agonisingly 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.

 

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. G.B. & N.I. (C. Malcolm; C. Pickering; M. Devonish; M. Lewis-Francis) 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