John Mayock

John Mayock medal table
Middle distance running , long distance running
United Kingdom , England
Commonwealth Games
silver	1998 Kuala Lumpur	1500 m
bronze	1994 Victoria	1500 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	1998 Valencia	3000 m
silver	2005 Madrid	3000 m
silver	1992 Genoa	3000 m
bronze	2002 Vienna	3000 m
bronze	2000 Ghent	3000 m

John Paul Mayock (born October 26, 1970 in Barnsley ) is a former British middle and long distance runner .

Life

Between 1992 and 2005 Mayock won five medals in the 3,000 meter run at European Athletics Indoor Championships. In addition to his victory in Valencia in 1998, he came second and third twice. At the World Indoor Athletics Championships he took part in five finals over this distance between 1993 and 2003 and achieved his best placing in 2001 with fourth place. Mayock ran the 3000 meters indoors a total of 30 times under eight minutes during his career, more than any other athlete.

In the 1500 meter run , he won the bronze medal for England starting at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria in 1994 and the silver medal in Kuala Lumpur in 1998. At the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 , he finished fourth in the 5000 meter run .

Mayock started three times at the Olympic Games . He finished eleventh in Atlanta in 1996 and ninth in Sydney in 2000 . In 2004 in Athens he competed in the 5000 meter run, but could not qualify for the final. In his four participations in World Athletics Championships , he reached the final of the 1500 meter run in Athens only in 1997 and finished ninth there.

In 2005 Mayock tried road running with moderate success . That year he finished eighth in the Great South Run and sixth in the Great North Run . At the New York City Marathon , he gave up the race early.

John Mayock is 1.80 m tall and had a competition weight of 65 kg.

Top performances

• 1500 m: 3: 31.86 min, August 22, 1997, Brussels
  • Hall: 3: 36.25 min, February 18, 2001, Birmingham
• 3000 m: 7: 47.28 min, July 23, 1995, Sheffield
  • Hall: 7: 41.09 min (former British record), February 6, 2002, Stockholm
• 5000 m: 13: 19.43 min, July 31, 2002, Manchester

Web links

• John Mayock in the database of World Athletics (English)
• John Mayock in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics from John Mayock on The Power of 10

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Association of Road Racing Statisticians: Fastest n-th Fastest Indoor Track 3000 meters (English)
2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: John Mayock takes advice from Paula Radcliffe , September 21, 2005