Tony Jarrett

Anthony Alexander Jarrett (born 13 August 1968) is a male former sprint and hurdling athlete from England. He competed at four Olympic Games.<ref name=oly>Template:Cite web</ref>

Biography

He was a silver medalist in the 110 metres hurdles at the World Championships in 1993 and 1995, and at the European Championships in 1990, and won the gold medal in the event at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and 1998.

Jarrett came fourth in the 110m hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, missing out on a bronze medal by 1000th of a second to Jack Pierce of the United States. He again narrowly missed out on an Olympic medal when he was a member of the 4 × 100 m sprint relay team that also finished 4th in the Olympic final of that year. Four years earlier in 1988 he finished in 6th place in the 110m hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.<ref>Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref>

He represented England and won a gold medal as part of the 4 x 100 metres relay team and a silver medal in the 110 metres hurdles, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Four years later he represented England and won another silver medal, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He represented England for a third Games and won a gold medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also made a fourth appearance during the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Jarrett's career was overshadowed by the achievements of fellow Briton Colin Jackson, who beat him into second place on numerous occasions at major competitions such as the World Championships, Commonwealth Games (twice), European Championships and Goodwill Games. Jackson also defeated Jarrett eight times at the national championships. In all Jarrett won two individual world silver medals and one individual bronze medal in the 110m hurdles, and another silver and bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m sprint relay.

Jarrett was a four-times British 110 metres hurdles champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 2001 AAA Championships<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the UK Athletics Championships in 1987, 1988 and 1997.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Jarrett was disqualified for false starts at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, in the first round, and in the semi-finals of the 2001 World Championships, events from which he appeared never to recover.

Jarrett's personal best time for the 110m hurdles is 13.00 seconds, set when he finished as runner-up to Jackson at the 1993 World Championships.

Other Achievements

• 1987 European Athletics Junior Championships
  • Gold medal
• 1994 Goodwill Games
  • Silver medal
• 1994 IAAF World Cup
  • Gold medal
• 1999 European Cup
  • Silver medal

Track records

As of 7 September 2024, Jarrett holds the following track records for 110 metres hurdles.

Location	Time	Windspeed m/s	Date
Dijon	13.37	+ 0.6	13/06/1992
Kuala Lumpur	13.32	– 0.2	19/09/1998
Larnaca	13.33	+ 0.5	17/07/1991
Ljubljana	13.27	+ 1.0	26/05/1996

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