Greg Rutherford

Greg Rutherford
Greg Rutherford in Hilversum , 2010
Full name	Gregory James Rutherford
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	17th November 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Milton Keynes
size	188 cm
Weight	92 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.51 m (NR) 8.26 m (hall) 10.26 s (100 meter run)
society	Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016  World championships gold Beijing 2015  European championships silver Gothenburg 2006 gold Zurich 2014 gold Amsterdam 2016  Commonwealth Games silver Delhi 2010 gold Glasgow 2014
last change: August 14, 2016

Gregory ("Greg") James Rutherford (born November 17, 1986 in Milton Keynes ) is an English former track and field athlete . At a height of 1.88 m, his competition weight is 92 kg. He is mainly known as a long jumper . He holds the British record with 8.51 m. In 2012 he won the gold medal in the long jump Olympic Games .

Life

Greg Rutherford is the great-grandson of the English national soccer player Jock Rutherford . Although Aston Villa was interested in Greg as a soccer player when he was 14, he decided to take up athletics. His athletics club is the Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club . He is trained there by Frank Attoh, for example. Rutherford is also trained by Dan Pfaff .

Greg Rutherford and his father built a two-lane 52-meter long jump facility in his garden.

successes

In 2005, at the age of 18, he won the British long jump championship as the youngest ever to do so. In the same year he won the Junior European Championships in Kaunas with 8.14 m and set a British junior record. At the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium , he won the silver medal with 8.13 m and again the British long jump championship in Norwich (with 8.26 m, one centimeter below the then British record of Christopher Tomlinson ). At the 2008 Olympic Games in the Beijing National Stadium , he reached the final with 8.16 m as the third-best of both qualifying groups, but only reached tenth place there with 7.84 m in only two valid attempts. His health was in poor health: one day after graduation, he was admitted to hospital with tonsillitis, kidney disease and pneumonia. He jumped a new British record at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin's Olympic Stadium with a jump of 8.30 m at 0.50 m / s headwind in the qualification. The record lasted until July 8, 2011, when Christopher Tomlinson took it back at the Areva meeting at 8.35 m . At the Commonwealth Games 2010 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi , Greg Rutherford was second behind Fabrice Lapierre with 8.22 m . In June 2011 he won the long jump competition at the Prefontaine Classic (part of the Diamond League ) at Hayward Field in Eugene with 8.32 m ahead of Godfrey Khotso Mokoena , but with 2.1 m / s tailwind, which is why his distance there is not more British and personal Record counted. In May 2012 he equalized Tomlinson's British record with 8.35 m in Chula Vista and became the sole British record holder in April 2014, also in Chula Vista, with 8.51 m.

Rutherford's first international title was the Olympic victory with 8.31 m at the 2012 London Games . In the following years he won the title at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich with 8.29 m, the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with 8.41 m and the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam with 8.25 m. He also won the Diamond Race of the Diamond League 2015. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the bronze medal in the long jump competition with 8.29 m behind the American Jeff Henderson (8.38 m) and the South African Luvo Manyonga (8.37 m).

His longest jump in the hall is 8.26 m, which he jumped on February 5, 2016 in Albuquerque at an indoor meeting. He improved Christopher Tomlinson's national record from 2008. His best time in the 100-meter run was 10.26 s, set on September 18, 2010 at the Great North CityGames in Gateshead , an international match between England and Australia. In the 60-meter run in the hall, his best time is 6.68 s, which he ran on February 21, 2009 in Birmingham .

In June 2018, Rutherford announced that it would end his track and field ethics career in the summer of the year. He plans to switch to track cycling .

Awards

• 2013: Member (MBE) of the Order of the British Empire
• 2013: Honorary Doctorate in Sports Science from the University of Bedfordshire
• 2015: European Athlete of the Year , award from the European Athletic Association (EAA)
• 2018: European Athlete of the Year, EAA Lifetime Achievement Award

Web links

Commons : Greg Rutherford  - Collection of Images

• Official website (English)
• Greg Rutherford in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Greg Rutherford in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rutherford puts family tragedy to one side to claim Olympic place by Duncan Mackay, The Observer , July 13, 2008 (English)
2. ↑ 12 for 2012: No 7: Greg Rutherford, long jumper by Simon Turnbull, The Independent , July 23, 2006 (English)
3. ↑ Portrait page of Greg Rutherfords at the European Championships 2016 in Amsterdam (English)
4. ↑ Greg Rutherford sets outright British long jump record . Reported to the BBC on April 25, 2014 (English)
5. ↑ Bupa Great North CityGames - 2010 Results (English)
6. ↑ London 2012 long jump champ Greg Rutherford plans switch to track cycling. In: road.cc. June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Awards of the Orders of the British Empire at the turn of the year 2012/13 ( PDF , English; 128 kB)
8. ^ Mayer and Asher-Smith crowned European Athletes of the Year in Lausanne . Article from October 26, 2018 on european-athletics.org (English)