Dean Macey

Dean Macey (born December 12, 1977 in Rochford , Essex ) is a former British decathlete .

The extremely injury-prone Dean Macey has started a total of 14 decathletes and finished ten of them in the twelve years of his career as a decathlete. In these ten competitions, Dean Macey won four international medals and was twice Olympic.

Dean Macey started out as a triple jumper and as a footballer before focusing entirely on the all-around in 1995. He played his first decathlon in May 1996 in Bonn, winning this competition with 7134 points. In his second finished decathlon he was in August 1996 with 7480 points second at the Junior World Championships in Sydney.

It was not until 1999 that Macey finished a decathlon after many injuries when he won an international match against France in Arles in May and got 8347 points. After giving up at the U23 European Championships, he joined the World Championships in Seville in August 1999 . With 8556 points he won silver behind the Czech Tomáš Dvořák (8744 points).

Dean Macey played his next decathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. With 8567 points, he finished fourth behind the Estonian Erki Nool (8641), the Czech Roman Šebrle (8606) and the American Chris Huffins (8595).

It was almost a year before the next decathlon, because Dean Macey was only at the start again at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. Behind Tomáš Dvořák (8902) and Erki Nool (8815), Macey improved his personal best for the sixth time in the sixth complete decathlon of his career and won bronze with 8603 points.

In July 2004 Macey tried a comeback after a long injury break and won a competition in Hexham with 7842 points. This achievement, with which the B norm for the Olympic qualification had met, was enough to be nominated as the only British decathlete for the Olympic Games in Athens . There he reached fourth place with 8414 points as four years earlier. Roman Šebrle won with 8893 points ahead of the American Bryan Clay (8820) and Kazakhs Dmitri Karpow (8725).

In March 2006 Dean Macey won his ninth decathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne with 8143 points.

After he clearly missed the Olympic standard for the Olympic Games in Beijing two years later with 7491 points , he declared his sporting career over. With a height of 1.96 m, his competition weight was 96 kg.

Best performance in the individual disciplines

100 m	10.69 s	(1999 in Seville)
Long jump	7.77 m	(2000 in Sydney)
Shot put	15.77 m	(2006 in Melbourne)
high jump	2.15 m	(2001 in Edmonton)
400 m	46.21 s	(2001 in Edmonton)
110 m hurdles	14.34 s	(2001 in Edmonton)
Discus throw	48.34 m	(2004 in Athens)
Pole vault	4.80 m	(2000 in Sydney)
Javelin throw	64.03 m	(1999 in Seville)
1500 meter run	4: 23.45 min	(2000 in Sydney)

In the 100 meter run in Arles in 1999, Dean Macey was even faster with 10.65 s, but with a 2.2 m / s tailwind.

literature

• Hans van Kuijen: 2006 Annual Combined Events. Helmond 2007

Web links

• Dean Macey in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Decathlete Macey decides to quit , message on the BBC website, July 15, 2008