Marlon Devonish (born 1 June 1976 in Coventry, England, UK) is a British sprint athlete.

He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester. Early in his career he was successful at both 100 and 200 metre distances, winning English Schools and European Junior titles at both, but in recent years he has concentrated mostly on the longer distance. He has also been a regular member of both the British and, at the Commonwealth Games, English 4 x 100 metre sprint relay teams, to some considerable success.

The most notable achievement of his career to date came at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There Devonish, along with Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell and Mark Lewis-Francis, won a stunning gold medal in the 4 x 100 m. relay, where the quartet defeated the pre-race favourites, United States team, by just 0.01 seconds, in a season's best of 38.07.

Achievements

• 1995
  • European Junior Championships
    • 100 m gold
    • 200 m gold
• 1998
  • Commonwealth Games - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    • 4 x 100 m relay gold
• 1999
  • European Cup
    • 4 x 100 m relay gold
  • World Championships - Seville, Spain.
    • 4 x 100 m relay silver
• 2002
  • Commonwealth Games - Manchester, England.
    • 200 m silver
    • 4 x 100 m relay gold
  • European Championships - Munich, Germany.
    • 200 m bronze
    • 4 x 100 m relay gold
• 2003
  • World Indoor Championships - Birmingham, England.
    • 200 m gold
• 2004
  • Summer Olympics - Athens, Greece.
    • 4 x 100 m relay gold

References

• UK Athletics website (http://www.ukathletics.net/vsite/vcontent/page/custom/0,8510,4854-132125-133433-21058-77185-custom-item,00.html)
• 'Marlon hails sprint revival' - BBC.co.uk, 29 August 2004 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/athletics/3609786.stm)

Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Post-war British Olympic champions in men's athletics

1956 Chris Brasher (3000 m steeplechase) | 1960 Don Thompson (50 km walk) | 1964 Ken Matthews (20 km walk) | 1964 Lynn Davies (long jump) 1968 David Hemery (400 m hurdles) 1980: Allan Wells (100 m) | 1980 Steve Ovett (800 m) | 1980 & 1984 Sebastian Coe (1500 m) | 1980 & 1984 Daley Thompson (decathlon) | 1992 Linford Christie (100 m) | 2000 Jonathan Edwards (triple jump) | 2004 Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish & Mark Lewis-Francis (4 x 100 m relay)