Chris Rawlinson

Christopher Lee Rawlinson (born 19 May 1972) is a former track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metre hurdles. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Biography

A graduate of Loughborough University, Rawlinson competed in the pole vault, decathlon and 110 m hurdles in his early career, Rawlinson found the gruelling 400 m hurdles to be his best event.[citation needed]

Rawlinson won the first of his seven British titles after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1998 AAA Championships. The others came from 1999 to 2004.

At both the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he represented Great Britain in the 400 metres hurdles.

In July 2004 he ranked third on the United Kingdom all-time list for the 400 m hurdles with a time of 48.14 seconds, set in 1999 at Zürich, Switzerland. In the build-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Rawlinson was ranked number five in the world by the IAAF. Until 2020 Rawlinson held the world best of 34.48 seconds for the rarely run 300 m hurdles, which he set at Sheffield, England on 30 June 2002.

Rawlinson retired from competitive athletics at the end of 2005 at the age of 33.

He married Australian athlete Jana Pittman on 31 March 2006.[citation needed] and is now married to Catherine Clark, sports administrator, they have 2 sons.[citation needed]

International competitions

External links

• at IMDb
• at World Athletics