Dana Wright

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Dana Wright athletics
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 20th September 1959
place of birth Toronto ,  Canada
size 163 cm
Weight 56 kg
Career
discipline Sprint , hurdles
Best performance 400 m: 53.14 s (1982)
400 m hurdles: 57.35 s (1983)
society Old Dominion University
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver 1984 Los Angeles 4 × 400 m

Dana Wright (born September 20, 1959 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Canadian athlete who specialized in the 400 meter hurdles . She had personal bests of 57.35 seconds for the hurdles and 53.14 seconds for the 400-meter sprint .

Career

Dana Wright was born in Toronto , Ontario and attended Old Dominion University . At the Canadian Athletics Championships in 1982, 1984 and 1985, she finished third in the 400 m hurdles. Her best placement at national level came in 1987 when she was runner-up after Gwen Wall .

At the 1984 Olympic Games , she was selected both for the hurdles and as a substitute runner for the Canadian 4 × 400 meter relay . She was eliminated in the qualifying round for the hurdles, but helped the relay reach the final of the competition. Molly Killingbeck replaced her in the finals, and Canada won the silver medal in Wright's absence. She was a hurdle finalist at the 1987 Pan American Games (she finished seventh) but this was her last international appearance and she retired from the sport soon after.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dana Wright Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. April 18, 2020, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDALLISTS 1900-2012 . Athletics Canada . Retrieved on 2013-11-30.
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Dana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario