Paul Di Bella
Paul Di Bella medal table |
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World championships | ||
bronze | 2001 Edmonton | 4 × 100 m |
Commonwealth Games | ||
bronze | 2002 Manchester | 4 × 100 m |
Paul Di Bella (born February 12, 1977 in Ingham , Queensland ) is a former Australian sprinter .
He was a participant in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . He qualified with the Australian 4-by-100-meter relay for the semi-finals, which was eliminated there due to a substitutional error. In the 100-meter run , Di Bella failed in the preliminary round.
He celebrated the greatest success of his career by winning the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton . The Australian quartet Matt Shirvington , Paul Di Bella, Steve Brimacombe and Adam Basil only reached the finish line in fourth place with a time of 38.83 s. Due to the subsequent disqualification of the US relay because of a doping offense by their runner Tim Montgomery , the Australians moved up one rank in the ranking.
Di Bella won another bronze medal in the relay at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester . After he was eliminated in the semi -finals of the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris , he reached sixth place in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .
Paul Di Bella had a competition weight of 68 kg with a height of 1.78 m.
Best performance
Web links
- Paul Di Bella in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Paul Di Bella in the database of Athletics Australia (English)
- Paul Di Bella in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Di Bella, Paul |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1977 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ingham (Queensland) |