Andy Turner

Turner inBarcelona 2010
Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	(1980-09-19)19 September 1980 (age 45) Nottingham, England[1]
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Weight	78 kg (12 st 4 lb; 172 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	110 metres hurdles
Club	Sale Harriers[3]
Achievements and titles
Personalbest	100m:=10.32s110m hurdles=13.22 s
Medal record Men's athletics Representing Great Britain World Championships 2011 Daegu 110 m hurdles European Championships 2010 Barcelona 110 m hurdles 2006 Gothenburg 110 m hurdles European Team Championships 2009 Leiria 110 m hurdles 2011 Stockholm 110 m hurdles Continental Cup 2010 Split 110 m hurdles Representing England Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 110 m hurdles 2006 Melbourne 110 m hurdles

Andrew Steven Turner (born 19 September 1980) is a retiredtrack and field athlete from England who specialised in the110 metres hurdles and occasionally competed in the100 and200 metressprints as well aslong jump. At the 110 m hurdles, he is the2011 World Championship bronze medallist, the 2010 European Champion and the 2010 Commonwealth Champion. Also in 2010, he broke the automatically timedworld record in the200 metres hurdles. He was coached byLloyd Cowan.

Turner was born in Hucknall, Nottingham, England and educated atNottingham High School.

Andy Turner competed at the2004 Athens Olympics, but failed to progress beyond the heats. Turner was third over the 110 m hurdles at the2006 Commonwealth Games inMelbourne, in a time of 13.62 seconds. He won the bronze medal in the 110 m hurdles at the2006 European Athletics Championships, and finished fourth at the2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships. He narrowly failed to make it into the final of the 110 m hurdles at the2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics with his time in the third semi-final 0.05 seconds outside the second fastest losers' spot.

Andy Turner representedGreat Britain for a second time at the2008 Summer Olympics and reached the quarter-finals stage. Following this performance,UK Athletics reviewed athletes funding and Turner's basic lottery grant of around £12,000 was cut, based on the assumption that he would not be a medal hopeful for the following year'sWorld Championships.^[4]

At the beginning of the 2009 athletics season, he finished fourth in the60 metres hurdles in theEuropean Athletics Indoor Championships, narrowly missing out on a medal. After competing in the150 metres street race at theGreat CityGames in Manchester, Turner won the 110 m hurdles at theFanny Blankers-Koen Games in 13.30 seconds, close to a personal best.^[5] He won the 110 m hurdles at the2009 European Team Championships, and said he intended to prove to UK Athletics, that he could compete at the highest level in the sport.^[6] He entered the2009 World Championships in Athletics, but was eliminated in the heats stage while carrying an injury. He went on to finish the season at the2009 IAAF World Athletics Final, where he was fifth.

The following year he competed at the2010 European Team Championships inBergen, winning the 110 m hurdles competition in 13.48 seconds to help Great Britain to second place overall in the tournament.^[7] Turner went on to his most significant victory to date in the 110 m hurdles at the2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona later that year. In the final, Turner got off to a quick start, but trailedPetr Svoboda in the final with thirty metres remaining, but when Svoboda collided badly with the eighth hurdle, Turner powered through and won in a time of 13.28.

Turner completed a successful 2010 season by winning theCommonwealth Games 110 m hurdles title in New Delhi in 13.38.

At the 2011Manchester City Games, Turner ran the rarely run200 meters hurdles on a straight in 22.10 (+2.0). That time was superior to the previousautomatically timed best byLaurent Ottoz. Ottoz had run his race in 22.55 around the bend on a conventional track, Turner ran on a specially constructed straight track on the streets of Manchester. Turner's time still did not exceed the last officially ratified record in the event, a hand timed 21.9 byDon Styron that had already stood for more than half a century. TheIAAF currently recognises all three times as records in "non-IAAF World Record events," Ottoz around a bend, Styron hand timed on a straight and Turner automatically timed on a straight.^[8]

He then went on to win a bronze medal at the2011 World Championships in Athletics afterDayron Robles was disqualified for puttingLiu Xiang of China off balance. A year later on English soil at the 2012 Olympics, Turner was one of the hurdlers to help Liu off the track after his injury and dramatic exit.

Turner's defence of his Commonwealth title at the2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was halted when he crashed out of his first round heat. At the2014 European Athletics Championships Turner announced that he would retire from athletics at the end of the year.^[9]

After retiring from athletics, Turner initially took up a career as a personal trainer, before deciding to follow in the footsteps of his brother, Garry, afitness model, by becoming a bodybuilder.^[10]

• All information taken fromIAAF profile^[11] andUKA profile.^[12]

Turner appeared as the "This Is My..." guest in a 2013 episode of the British game showWould I Lie to You?, where he revealed that he was beaten in a speed-eating competition by track and field athleteGreg Rutherford.^[13]

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