Damien Marsh
| Damien Marsh medal table |
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 Australia
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| World championships | ||
| silver | 1995 Gothenburg | 4 × 100 m |
| Indoor world championships | ||
| silver | 1993 Toronto | 200 m |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
| silver | 1994 Victoria | 4 × 100 m |
Damien Marsh (born March 28, 1971 in Goondiwindi ) is a former Australian sprinter .
In 1993 he won the silver medal in the 200-meter run at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Toronto , while he was eliminated in the 60-meter run in the preliminary round. In the same year, Marsh in Stuttgart was eighth over 200 m at the World Athletics Championships outdoors and finished fifth with the Australian 4 x 100 meter relay . At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria , he won the silver medal with the relay and was fourth in the 200-meter run.
The greatest success of his career he achieved two years later at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 . During the season he won the silver medal with Paul Henderson , Tim Jackson and Steve Brimacombe in 38.50 seconds behind Canada (38.31 seconds) and ahead of Italy (39.07 seconds). The day before, the Australian quartet had set an Oceania record in the semifinals with a time of 38.17 s. In the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter race reached Marsh in Gothenburg each semifinal round.
At the end of the 1995 season, Marsh surprisingly won the 100-meter run at the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Monaco and undercut his own Australian national record by three hundredths of a second with a time of 10.13 s. The following year he missed participation in the Atlanta Olympics due to injury and never regained his previous form. He started again at the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997 with the relay, but was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Damien Marsh was Australian champion four times, twice in the 100-meter run (1994, 1996) and twice in the 200-meter run (1993, 1998). He is 1.88 m tall and had a competition weight of 81 kg.
Top performances
- 100 m: 10.13 s, September 9, 1995, Monaco
- 200 m: 20.32 s, August 22, 1995, Linz
- Hall: 20.71s, March 14, 1993, Toronto
- 60 m (hall): 6.83 s, March 12, 1993, Toronto
Web links
- Damien Marsh in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Damien Marsh in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Marsh, Damien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goondiwindi |