Jonnie Peacock

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Jonnie Peacock
MBE
File:Jonnie Peacock (cropped).jpg
Personal information
Born (1993-05-28) 28 May 1993 (age 31)
Cambridge, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Sport
Country  Great Britain
Sport Running
Event(s) Sprints (100m)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 100m T44
IPC World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Lyon 100 m T44
IPC European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Swansea 100m - T44
Updated on 20 August 2014.

Jonathan Peacock, MBE (born 28 May 1993) is an English sprint runner.[1][2][3] An amputee, Peacock won gold at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, representing Great Britain in the T44 men's 100 metres event.

Biography

File:Jonnie Peacock's gold postbox in Doddington, Cambridgeshire.jpg
Peacock's gold postbox in Doddington, Cambridgeshire

Peacock was born in Cambridge.[4] At the age of 5, Peacock contracted meningitis resulting in the disease killing the tissues of his right leg, which was then was amputated just below the knee.[5] Wanting to play football, he was directed to a Paralympic sports talent day when he asked about disability sport at the hospital that fitted his prosthetic leg.[6] His mother would carry him to school when his very short below-knee stump was too sore to wear his prosthetic leg.[7] Peacock refers to his stump as his "sausage leg."[8]

Peacock ran his first international race at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester in May 2012.[6] In June 2012 Peacock set a new 100 metres world record in amputee sprinting at the United States Paralympic track and field trials, recording a time of 10.85 seconds to beat the previous record held by Marlon Shirley by 0.06 seconds.[9] This record was beaten in July 2013 at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships at the Stade du Rhône in Lyon when American athlete Richard Browne recorded a time of 10.83 in the T44 100m semi-finals.[10]

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Peacock won the 100m T44 final with a time of 10.90 seconds, claiming the gold and the Paralympic record in the process.[11] The win made his coach, Dan Pfaff, the only man to have coached 100m gold medalists in both the Olympics and the Paralympics; Pfaff coached Canada's Donovan Bailey, the gold medalist in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[12]

Peacock pulled out of the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships due to a sore on his stump that developed over the summer. [13]

Honours

Peacock was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics.[14][15]

References

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