Dan Money

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Dan Money
Personal information
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Born (1976-10-17) 17 October 1976 (age 47)
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight102 kg (225 lb)
Sport
SportBobsleigh, Athletics
Event(s)two-man bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh, 100m

Dan Money (born 17 October 1976 in Glossop, Derbyshire, England) is a British bobsledder who has competed since 2006. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 17th in the four-man event while crashing out in the two-man event whilst in 8th place.

Money's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was fifth in the four-man event at St. Moritz in 2007 with Lee Johnston and Allyn Condon. His best World Cup finish was 12th in the four-man event at Whistler, British Columbia in 2009 also with Johnston and Condon. His highest two-man finish was 13th in Winterberg also in the 2009 season.

In the 2010/2011 season his best World Cup finish was 14th in the two-man event in St. Moritz. The previous week, Money and driver John James Jackson won the Europa Cup two-man event at St Moritz.

Money is a former Track & Field athlete whose notable achievements include a 100m personal best of 10.16 seconds and World University Games bronze medal in the 100m at the athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade. He also won a European Junior Gold medal at 1995 European Athletics Junior Championships in the same 4 × 100 m team as Dwain Chambers and Marlon Devonish and a Bronze medal in the 200m.

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Personal bests[edit]

Distance Time Location Date
60 metres (indoor) 6.71 sec Birmingham January 2000
100 metres 10.16 sec Cork June 1997
200 metres 20.75 sec Bedford July 1997

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