User:Bornbredbrummie/Ainsley Bennett

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UK. At present, it is thought that he is working in sports management in the West Midlands
.

Contents 

   * 1 Early life
   * 2 Athletics career
   * 3 References and notes
   * 4 External links

Early life.

Brought up in

Eire
from 1982 to 2003 in road, track and cross country races.

Athletics career.

Ainsley competed for Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club, based in Perry Barr in North Birmingham, and represented Great Britain at the

1976 Olympic Games held in Montreal, Canada
, where he reached the semi-finals of the men's 200m sprint race, as well as being one of the men's 4 x 400m relay team which unfortunately failed to progress further than the first heats.

However, Bennett fared better in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, where he and fellow team-mates Garry Cook, Todd Bennett and Philip Brown took the bronze medal in a time of 3:03.53, finishing behind the Soviet Union and West Germany.


Career Personal Bests: 200m - 20.42 (1979); 400m - 46.15 (1975).


References, notes and external links.

http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=457

http://www.flotrack.org/articles/view/351-paul-ocallaghan-aspire-running

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/ainsley-bennett-1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_4_x_400_metres_relay

http://www.sportinglife.com/athletics/worldathletics2005/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=others/05/07/15/ATHLETICS_World_Medals.html

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