Allyn Condon
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Nationality | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Citizenship | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Athletics, Bobsleigh | 24 August 1974|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sprinting, two-man bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Sale Harriers, Manchester | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Allyn Condon (born 24 August 1974) is an English former
Career
Athletics
Condon has been coached by his father Morris Condon since the age of 10 years. He showed a talent for
In 1992 he ran first leg in the
He was the 200 metres bronze medalist at the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships and won 4 × 100 m relay gold medals at the 1998 European Cup and 1998 IAAF World Cup and 1998 European Athletics Championships. Also in 1998 he represented England in the 200 metres event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[2][3][4]
The following year he won a 4 × 400 m relay bronze at the
In 2000 he was selected for his first
After a short time out of the sport, he got back to full fitness and in August became the 2002 Commonwealth Games gold medalist in Manchester in the 4 × 100 m relay. Condon flew out to Munich as part of the Great Britain Team for the 2002 European Athletics Championships, but after a dispute with the team management over selection returned home before the event had taken place.
In 2003 he was a finalist in the 200m at the ((World Indoor Athletics Championships | 2003)) but was unfortunately disqualified after getting two false starts. He refused to leave the track despite the disqualification, holding the event up for a period of around 10 - 15 minutes. After huge support from the home nation crowd, he was allowed to run under protest, but was later disqualified anyway.
Switch to bobsleigh
After an international athletics career, inspired by the film Cool Runnings, he changed from track and field in 2006 to take on the challenge of bobsleigh.
During his first year in the sport he became a first team regular in both the two-man and four-man events. His best finish at the
In 2008 during a race in Germany he hurt his back and returned home to the UK. After having his back scanned, surgeons found he had ruptured an artery on his lower spine and this brought an abrupt end to the season ahead.
He returned to the sport in 2009 when the team struggled to find any kind of form on the World cup circuit and had a disappointing World Championships finish.
In 2010 after a season of selection upsets, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, becoming part of a select group to have competed at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.[1] As a bobsledder, Condon finished 17th in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver alongside former track and field teammate Dan Money. A 150 km/h crash that put the Great Britain team on their heads on the bend named 50/50 prevented the four-man team from achieving a top eight finish.
Athletics statistics
Personal bests
Distance | Time | Location | Date |
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60 metres (indoor) | 6.60 sec | Australia | August 2000 |
100 metres | 10.21 sec | Bedford | 14 August 1999 |
200 metres | 20.63 sec | Birmingham | 1 January 1997 |
300 metres | 33.08 sec | Loughborough | 8 August 1999 |
200 metres (indoor) | 20.53 sec | Birmingham | 8 February 1998 |
400 metres (indoor) | 46.23 sec | Birmingham | 14 February 1999 |
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Great Britain | |||||
1991 | European Youth Olympics
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Brussels, Belgium
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1st | 400m | 48.20 |
1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 41.86 | |||
1992 | World Junior Championships | Seoul, South Korea | 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 39.21 |
5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:07.48 | |||
1998 | European Indoor Championships | Valencia, Spain
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3rd | 200 metres | 20.68 |
European Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 1st | 4 × 100 m relay | 38.52 | |
1999 | World Indoor Championships | Maebashi, Japan
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3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.20 |
References
- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Allyn Condon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
External links
- Allyn Condon at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Allyn Condon at World Athletics
- Allyn Condon at European Athletics
- Allyn Condon at Olympics.com
- Allyn Condon at Olympic.org (archived)
- Allyn Condon at Olympedia
- Allyn Condon at Team GB
- Allyn Condon at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)