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| Full name | Gregory James Rutherford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 November 1986 Milton Keynes, England |
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| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg (190 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  England United Kingdom |
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| Club | Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long Jump 8.35 m (Chula Vista 2012) 100m 10.26 (Gateshead 2010)[1] |
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Gregory James Rutherford, MBE (born 17 November 1986)[2][3] is an English athlete who specialises in the long jump and also competes as a sprinter. He is the 2012 Olympic Champion, 2010 Commonwealth Games silver medallist and 2006 European Championship silver medallist in the long jump. With Chris Tomlinson, he is the joint British record holder for this event.
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Early life [edit]
Rutherford grew up in Bletchley, Milton Keynes[4] where he attended Two Mile Ash Primary School[5] and went on to Denbigh School.[6] He is the great-grandson of footballer Jock Rutherford, who won three Football League First Division titles with Newcastle United and 11 England caps, and is also the oldest player ever to have played for Arsenal;[7] his grandfather also played for Arsenal.[8] Rutherford played several sports as a youth including football, rugby and badminton.[9] He had trials with Premiership football club Aston Villa as a teenager before deciding to pursue a career in athletics.[10]
Career [edit]
2005–2007 [edit]
Rutherford became the youngest ever winner of the long jump event at the AAA Championships in 2005, aged 18.[9] He also won the European Junior Championships that year, setting a British junior record of 8.14 m.[10]
Rutherford was selected to represent England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games,[10] where he finished 8th.[3] He won the AAA championships again that year with a jump of 8.26 m.[11] On 8 August 2006, he won the silver medal in the long jump at the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg with a jump of 8.13 m.[12]
Rutherford missed much of the 2007 season due to a succession of injury problems, including an ankle injury for which he had surgery in February of that year.[13] He competed at the 2007 World Championships but did not reach the final, finishing 21st in the qualifying round.[14]
2008–2011 [edit]
Rutherford won the AAA title on 12 July 2008, reaching the Olympic qualifying distance of 8.20m.[15] He also won the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace two weeks later with a distance of 8.16 m.[16] At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing Rutherford qualified for the final in third place with a distance of 8.16 m. In the final, he had two no-jumps in the first two rounds, and recorded a distance of 7.84 m in the third round. This was not enough to place him in the top 8 who would continue to the final three rounds, and he finished in 10th place.[17]
Rutherford set a British record of 8.30 m on 20 August 2009 in the qualifying round of the World Athletics Championships in Berlin,[18] improving the previous record held by Chris Tomlinson by 1 cm.[19] He was unable to match this performance in the final of the event, finishing fifth with a jump of 8.17 m.[20]
Rutherford did not compete at the 2010 European Championships due to a foot injury.[21] On 18 September he set a personal best for the 100 m of 10.26 seconds in the invitational event at the Great North City Games.[1][22] At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won the silver medal with a jump of 8.22 m.[21]
Rutherford extended his personal best in the long jump to 8.32 m at the Eugene Diamond League meeting on 4 June 2011, although it was not recognised as a British record as it was wind assisted.[23] In July 2011 Chris Tomlinson broke Rutherford's British record with a jump of 8.35 m in Paris.[24] At the 2011 World Championships, Rutherford injured a hamstring during the qualifying round and did not reach the final.[19]
After the 2011 season, Rutherford worked on his take-off technique with his coach Dan Pfaff, adopting a technique based on that of Carl Lewis of making the penultimate step of the approach a lateral step outwards.[25]
2012 [edit]
Rutherford equalled Tomlinson's British record on 3 May 2012 with a jump of 8.35 m at the OTC Pre-Olympic Series II event in Chula Vista, California.[26] It was also the longest jump of 2012 to date (since equalled by Sergey Morgunov on 20 June).[27]
At the 2012 Olympics in London, Rutherford reached the final with a jump of 8.08 m, qualifying in fourth place.[28] In the final, he took the lead in the second round with a jump of 8.21 m, improving to 8.31 m in the fourth round which proved to be the winning jump.[29] Rutherford became the second British man to win Olympic gold in the long jump[30] and the first to do so since Lynn Davies in 1964.[6] Although his winning distance of 8.31 m was the shortest since 1972,[29] it was 15 cm ahead of silver medallist Mitchell Watt[31] and his second-best jump of 8.21 m would also have been enough to win the gold.[32] Rutherford's gold was one of three won by British track and field athletes on the evening of 4 August 2012 (the others were won by Jessica Ennis in the heptathlon and Mo Farah in the men's 10,000 m); this was the first time that three gold medals had been won by British athletes in the same Olympic athletics session.[33]
Following his gold medal Rutherford (as with the other British 2012 Olympic champions) was featured on a Royal Mail postage stamp, and two post boxes in Milton Keynes were painted gold in his honour.[34] He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics.[2]
Personal life [edit]
Rutherford lives in Woburn Sands, a village on the outskirts of Milton Keynes.[35][36]
He is also a fan of Manchester United.[25]
Statistics [edit]
Personal bests [edit]
| Event | Time/distance | Venue | Date | Records |
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| 60 metres (indoor) | 6.68 seconds[37] | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 21 February 2009 | |
| 100 metres | 10.26 seconds | Gateshead, United Kingdom | 18 September 2010 | |
| Long jump | 8.35 m | Chula Vista, California | 3 May 2012 | Joint British record |
Competition record [edit]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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| 2005 | European Junior Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 1st | 8.14 m |
| 2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 8th | 7.85 m |
| European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 2nd | 8.13 m | |
| 2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 10th | 7.84 m |
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 5th | 8.17 m |
| 2010 | Commonwealth Games | New Delhi, India | 2nd | 8.22 m |
| 2012 | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 1st | 8.31 m |
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b Wenig, Jörg (5 August 2012). "Rutherford: ‘This is what I have dreamt of my entire life’". IAAF. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ^ a b The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60367. p. 25. 29 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Men's Long Jump Final". Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Mullin, Cheryl (5 August 2012). "Greg Rutherford hails Olympic victories a 'great night for athletics'". Evening Chronicle. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Primary school planning ‘Greg Rutherford area’". Milton Keynes Citizen. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ a b Mendick, Robert (4 August 2012). "Greg Rutherford takes first GB gold in long jump for 48 years". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Golden Greg keen to cap Games triumph". Press Association. 5 August 2012. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ Vadukut, Sidin (5 August 2012). "Right returns to the right investment". Livemint. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ a b "Greg Rutherford". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ a b c Hart, Simon (19 March 2006). "Commonwealth Games: Rutherford ready for jump up to the next level". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "AAA Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Mackay, Duncan (9 August 2006). "Rutherford's silver offers Britain hope on a dark day". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Rutherford braced for trials test". BBC Sport. 19 July 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Who is long jumper Greg Rutherford?". BBC Sport. 4 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Rutherford finds form at trials". BBC Sport. 12 July 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Turnbull, Simon (27 July 2008). "Rutherford lifts himself with hopes of history". The Independent. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "No Olympic medal for Rutherford". MK News. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Kessel, Anna (21 August 2009). "Greg Rutherford makes his great leap forward". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ a b Jones, Cass (5 August 2012). "London 2012: Greg Rutherford overcomes injury to clinch gold". The Observer. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "GB quartet seal stunning bronze". BBC Sport. 22 August 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ a b "Commonwealth Games – Rutherford leaps to silver". Eurosport. 9 October 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "England beat Australia but Ashes trophy goes to the wire". Great CityGames. 18 September 2010. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011.
- ^ "Eugene as it happened". BBC Sport. 4 June 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
- ^ Hart, Simon (8 July 2011). "Cold start can't stop cruising Usain Bolt while Chris Tomlinson sets British long jump record". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ a b "Greg Rutherford interview". Sport. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Greg Rutherford equals British long jump record ahead of London 2012". The Guardian. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Turnbull, Simon (3 August 2012). "Rutherford leaps under the radar". The Independent. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Ennis pleased by heptathlon lead". ESPN Star Sports. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ a b Arcoleo, Laura (4 August 2012). "London 2012 – Event Report – Men's Long Jump Final". IAAF. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Mulvenney, Nick (4 August 2012). "Rutherford leaps to join British gold rush". Reuters. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Dutta, Kunal (5 August 2012). "Rutherford comes good and takes surprise gold in long jump". The Independent. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Rutherford leaps to long jump gold". ESPN. 4 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Ennis, Farah, Rutherford light up London 2012 Olympics for GB". BBC Sport. 4 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Stamp and postbox for golden boy Rutherford". MK News. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Greg Rutherford: mayor pays tribute after golden triumph". MK News. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Greg Rutherford: Inspiring a golden generation of Milton Keynes athletes". Milton Keynes Citizen. 8 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Greg Rutherford". Diamond League AG. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
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