Paul Di Bella

Paul Di Bella medal table
sprinter
Australia
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

• 100 m: 10.26 s, March 24, 2001, Brisbane
• 200 m : 20.66 s, March 25, 2001, Brisbane

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 )