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David Peter Hemery, CBE DL (born 18 July 1944) is a British former track and field athlete, best known as the winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
David Hemery (born July 18, 1944, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England) is an English hurdler who held the 400-metre-hurdles world record of 48.1 sec (1968–72). His father’s work took the family to the United States, where Hemery attended school, graduating from Boston University in 1969.
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Apr 27, 2012 · 50 stunning Olympic moments No25: David Hemery storms to gold in Mexico. As David Coleman put it, Hemery 'killed' his rivals to win the 400m hurdles – and he smashed the world record in the...
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2 min 14 October 1968 15:00 GMT-7. Athletics. At the end, they might just struggle to know where they've finished, particularly if it's a photo-finish. David Hemery wasn't sure where he'd finished in the final of the 400m hurdles. He saw a BBC commentator running towards him, holding a microphone, so he asked him what had happened.
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Oct 16, 2009 · David Hemery won Olympic gold in the 400 metre hurdles, one of the great British athletic performances. Fri 16 Oct 2009 19.04 EDT. I t feels like yesterday but also like a past life. I have to...
Feb 12, 2012 · David Hemery, now 67, won the award due to just under a minute’s worth of exertion. Having erupted from the blocks in the Olympic final in Mexico an unknown, he obliterated the opposition, winning by nearly a second as well as smashing the month-old World Record, to become a household name.
