| dbo:abstract
|
- Lawrence William Baird (born 14 December 1977) is an English and British athlete. Baird competed for his country in national and international competitions over the 400m and 4 × 400 m. In 1998 he was reserve for the 4 × 400 m relay team at the European indoor championships and part of the Ricoh tour in which he was tripped and sustained a back injury. He successfully retrained after months of rehabilitation to walk, jog and run and once again claimed a GB vest at Kelvin Hall International. When in 2015 he became a masters athlete Lawrence became the European 400m Master indoor champion racing in San Sebastián, Spain then the following year European outdoor 400m Champion in Izmir, Turkey. At the same meeting claiming silver over the 200m and 5th over the 100m, and two golds in the 4x100m and 4x400m. He finished second in the World Masters in 2015, was a member of the world record breaker masters 4 × 400 m men 35-40 team. He established himself as one of the best masters athletes in the world and one of only a few athletes in the world to have run sub 50 seconds over a period of 20 years consecutively. At the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships, he finished second in the M35 400 metres, part of a British sweep of the event. Later he joined his sweeping compatriots, David Brown, Liam Collins and Richard Beardsell leading off the M35 world record-setting 4 × 400 metres relay team. Their time 3:17.82. (en)
|
| dbo:wikiPageID
| |
| dbo:wikiPageLength
|
- 4125 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
|
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
| |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
| |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
| dcterms:subject
| |
| gold:hypernym
| |
| rdf:type
| |
| rdfs:comment
|
- Lawrence William Baird (born 14 December 1977) is an English and British athlete. Baird competed for his country in national and international competitions over the 400m and 4 × 400 m. In 1998 he was reserve for the 4 × 400 m relay team at the European indoor championships and part of the Ricoh tour in which he was tripped and sustained a back injury. He successfully retrained after months of rehabilitation to walk, jog and run and once again claimed a GB vest at Kelvin Hall International. When in 2015 he became a masters athlete Lawrence became the European 400m Master indoor champion racing in San Sebastián, Spain then the following year European outdoor 400m Champion in Izmir, Turkey. At the same meeting claiming silver over the 200m and 5th over the 100m, and two golds in the 4x100m an (en)
|
| rdfs:label
| |
| owl:sameAs
| |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom
| |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
| |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects
of | |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
of | |
| is foaf:primaryTopic
of | |
