Marcus Adam

English sportsperson (born 1968)

Marcus Adam

Personal information

Nationality| English
Born|  (1968-02-28) 28 February 1968 (age 56)
London, England
Sport
Sport| Athletics
Club| Belgrave Harriers, Wimbledon

Medal record

Athletics
Representing  Great Britain
European Championships
|  1990 Split | 4×100 m relay
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
|  1990 Auckland | 200 m
|  1990 Auckland | 4×100 m relay

Marcus Adam (born 28 February 1968) is an English retired sportsperson, who represented Great Britain as both a sprinter and a bobsledder.

Competing in athletics, he won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and also won gold and silver medals respectively in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and 1990 European Championships. He is also a member of the team which holds the British record in the 4 x 200 metres relay.

After retiring from athletics, he shifted to the sport of bobsleigh. He competed in the two-man bobsleigh event at the 2002 Winter Olympics (finishing in tenth place), having previously competed as a sprinter at the 1992 Summer Olympics (finishing in eighth place in the 200 metres and fourth place in the 4 x 100 metres relay).

## Athletics

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Adam was born in London.[1] At the 1987 European Junior Athletics Championships, he won gold medals in both the 200 metres and the 4 x 100 metres relay.[2] In the same year he won his first medal at the UK Championships, with a bronze medal in the 100 metres behind Linford Christie and Jamie Henderson.[3]

In 1989, Adam started by winning the silver medal at the Amateur Athletics Association (AAA) Indoor Championships.[4] He then won both the 100 and 200 metres at the UK Championships,[3] and at the AAA Championships in the same year he won the silver medal in the 100 metres and the gold medal in the 200 metres.[5] Also, in June 1989 he helped establish a British record of 1:21.29 minutes in the rarely contested 4 x 200 metres relay (together with Ade Mafe, Linford Christie and John Regis). This record still stands. In February 1990 he helped establish a new British indoor record of 1:22.99 minutes in the same event. (The time was beaten in March 1991.)[6] Also in the 1989–90 indoor season, Adam won the 200 metres race at the AAA Indoor Championships.[4]

Adam's international breakthrough came in the 1990 outdoor season. One of the season highlights was the 1990 Commonwealth Games. Adam finished fourth in the 100 metres event with a wind-aided time of 10.14 seconds, 0.02 seconds behind bronze medallist Bruny Surin. He then won the 200 metres with a wind-aided time of 20.10 seconds, ahead of his fellow English athletes John Regis and Ade Mafe, who finished second and third. Adam would never run faster than these two wind-aided times at the Commonwealth Games.[7] He went on to win a second gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay (together with Clarence Callender, John Regis and Linford Christie).[8] Adam also participated in the 1990 European Championships. He reached the semi-finals of the 200 metres,[9] and won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay (together with Darren Braithwaite, John Regis and Linford Christie).[10] The time of 37.98 seconds was a British record, which would stand until 1993.[6]

Adam achieved a personal best time in the 100 metres in July 1991, clocking in 10.23 seconds at a meet in Birmingham.[7]

In the 1991–92 indoor season, Adam competed at the 1992 European Indoor Championships, reaching the semi-finals of the 200 metres.[11]

In June 1992, Adam achieved his lifetime best time in the 200 metres, with a time of 20.41 seconds at a meet in Dijon.[7]

At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Adam reached the final of the 200 metres, finishing in eighth place with a time of 20.80 seconds.[1] He was also a member of the British 4 × 100 m relay team which finished in fourth place.[12] Domestically, Adam won the bronze medal in 100 metres at the AAA Championships,[5] and at the UK Championships he won the bronze medal in 100 metres and the gold medal in the 200 metres.[3]

Adam was then absent from the spotlight for several years. He made a brief return in the winter of 1999, when he competed at the World Indoor Championships,[1] and won the 200 metres event at the AAA Indoor Championships.[4]

## Bobsleigh

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Adam later took up the sport of bobsleigh. As a brakeman, he finished tenth in the two-man event at the 2002 Winter Olympics[12] together with Lee Johnston.[13]

## References

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1. ^ a b c Marcus Adam at World Athletics . Retrieved on 25 February 2009.
2. ^ "British Medallists in European Junior Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
3. ^ a b c "UK Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
4. ^ a b c "AAA Indoor Championships (Men)". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
5. ^ a b "AAA Championships (Men)". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
6. ^ a b "UK All-Time Lists: Men – Decathlon and Relays". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
7. ^ a b c "UK All-Time Lists: Men – Track (60–600)". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
8. ^ "1998 Commonwealth Games, men's results". Sporting Heroes. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
9. ^ 1990 European Athletics Championships results Archived 2008-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
10. ^ "British Medallists in European Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
11. ^ "1992 European Indoor Championships, men's 200 metres semi-final". Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
12. ^ a b "Marcus Adam". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
13. ^ "Great Britain Bobsleigh at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2009.

## External links

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* Marcus Adam, British Olympic Association
* Winter Olympics 2002 Team GB - Marcus Adam, BBC Sport
* Marcus Adam at Olympedia

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Commonwealth Games champions in men's 200 metres

220 yards
(1930–1966)|

* 1930:  Stanley Engelhart (ENG)
* 1934:  Arthur Sweeney (ENG)
* 1938:  Cyril Holmes (ENG)
* 1950:  John Treloar (AUS)
* 1954:  Don Jowett (NZL)
* 1958:  Tom Robinson (BAH)
* 1962:  Seraphino Antao (KEN)
* 1966:  Stanley Allotey (GHA)

200 metres
(1970–present)|

* 1970:  Don Quarrie (JAM)
* 1974:  Don Quarrie (JAM)
* 1978:  Allan Wells (SCO)
* 1982:  Mike McFarlane (ENG)
1986: Allan Wells (SCO)
* 1986:  Atlee Mahorn (CAN)
* 1990:  Marcus Adam (ENG)
* 1994:  Frankie Fredericks (NAM)
* 1998:  Julian Golding (ENG)
* 2002:  Frankie Fredericks (NAM)
* 2006:  Omar Brown (JAM)
* 2010:  Leon Baptiste (ENG)
* 2014:  Rasheed Dwyer (JAM)
* 2018:  Jereem Richards (TTO)
* 2022:  Jereem Richards (TTO)

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Commonwealth Games champions in men's 4 × 100 metres relay

4 x 110 yards
(1930–1966)|

* 1930:  Miller, Brown, Adams, Fitzpatrick (CAN)
* 1934:  Davis, Saunders, Rangeley, Sweeney (ENG)
* 1938:  Brown, Haley, Loaring, O'Connor (CAN)
* 1950:  Gordon, Johnson, Treloar, De Gruchy (AUS)
* 1954:  Springbett, Stonehouse, Nelson, McFarlane (CAN)
* 1958:  Radford, Sandstrom, Segal, Breacker (ENG)
* 1962:  Radford, Carter, Meakin, Jones (ENG)
* 1966:  E. Addy, Mends, J. Addy, Allotey (GHA)

4 x 100 metres
(1970–present)|

* 1970:  Stewart, Miller, Lawson, Quarrie (JAM)
* 1974:  Lewis, D'Arcy, Ratcliffe, Haskell (AUS)
* 1978:  Jenkins, Wells, Sharp, McMaster (SCO)
* 1982:  Adegbehingbe, Adeyanju, Oyeledun, Eseme (NGR)
* 1986:  McKoy, Mahorn, Williams, Johnson (CAN)
* 1990:  Callender, Regis, Adam, Christie (ENG)
* 1994:  Bailey,Gilbert, Chambers, Surin (CAN)
* 1998:  Chambers, Devonish, Golding, Campbell (ENG)
* 2002:  Gardener, Devonish, Condon, Campbell (ENG)
* 2006:  Frater, Waugh, Williams, Powell (JAM)
* 2010:  Scott, Baptiste, Devonish, Lewis-Francis (ENG)
* 2014:  Livermore, Bailey-Cole, Ashmeade, Bolt (JAM)
* 2018:  Arthur, Hughes, Kilty, Aikines-Aryeetey (ENG)
* 2022:  Efoloko, Hughes, Mitchell-Blake, Edoburun (ENG)

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UK Athletics Championships winners in men's 100 metres

1977–1997|

* 1977: Ainsley Bennett
* 1978: Allan Wells
* 1979: Trevor Hoyte
* 1980-81: Cameron Sharp
* 1982: Earl Tulloch
* 1983: Buster Watson
* 1984: Mike McFarlane
* 1985: Linford Christie
* 1986: Jamie Henderson
* 1987: Linford Christie
* 1988: John Regis
* 1989: Marcus Adam
* 1990-93: Linford Christie
* 1997: Ian Mackie

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UK Athletics Championships winners in men's 200 metres

1977-1997|

* 1977: Ainsley Bennett
* 1978: Allan Wells
* 1979: Earl Tulloch
* 1980: Cameron Sharp
* 1981: Earl Tulloch
* 1982: Mike McFarlane
* 1983: Buster Watson
* 1984: Todd Bennett
* 1985: Linford Christie & John Regis
* 1986: John Regis
* 1987: Roger Black
* 1988: Linford Christie
* 1989: Marcus Adam
* 1990: Ade Mafe
* 1991: John Regis
* 1992: Marcus Adam
* 1993: John Regis
* 1997: Dougie Walker

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