Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas was born in Farnborough, England, United Kingdom on January 5th, 1974 and is the Runner. At the age of 50, Iwan Thomas biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Iwan Gwyn Thomas (born 5 January 1974) is a Welsh sprinter who competed for Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the 400 meters and Wales at the Commonwealth Games.
Thomas is the European, Commonwealth Games, and World (4x400m relay) champion. Thomas is the current UK 400 million record holder, despite running a time of 44.36 seconds in Birmingham on July 13, 1997.
He was also a member of the team that set the UK 4x400 meters Relay record of 2:56.60, which was set in Atlanta, USA, in the Olympic final on August 03, 1996. Mike Smith, Thomas's mentor, helped British 400 meter runners Roger Black, Todd Bennett, and Paul Harmsworth also hurdled Kriss Akabusi, who was also hurdler Kriss Akabusi.
Thomas was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1998.
Personal life
His father was born in Middlesex to Welsh-born parents, but his mother's Welsh-speaking community was concentrated around the village of Llandderfel, Gwynedd. Iwan Thomas was born in Farnborough and now lives in Southampton.
He bought himself a Ducati 1098 motorcycle after winning the Deadline. Although a lifelong fan of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, in 2010 he became an ambassador for the Southampton Foundation, the charity of Southampton F.C.
In December 2018, Thomas and his partner welcomed their first child, a boy. Teddy was diagnosed with Group B streptococcal disease 10 days before he was released home. Teddy has made a positive recovery, and Iwan Thomas has raised concerns of the disorder and aided the charity Group B Strep Support.
On episode 5 of Channel 4's Celebrity Hunted, Iwan and his wife are expecting their second child. Dougie Albert Thomas, their second child, was born in late January 2022 and revealed it on Instagram.
Athletics career
His first athletic breakthrough came at the World Junior Championships in 1992 as part of the British 4x400 meters relay team, which placed fifth. Thomas studied Sport Science and Geography at Stamford School and West London Institute of Higher Education, where he concentrated on Sports Science and Geography. He competed in the 1994 Commonwealth Games 400 m, representing Wales, when he was still at university. He was selected to represent the United Kingdom in the relay at the 1995 European Cup in London and earned his first championship gold medal from there.
Thomas placed fifth in the final at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and earned a silver medal in the 4 400m event (where the team also records a new record). He also represented the United Kingdom in the 2000 Olympics but was not selected for the individual event, and despite running the fastest leg for the British team in the 4 400 m relay, he did not win a medal (the team took 5th place in the final).
Thomas was a member of the Great Britain 4 – 400 m team in Athens, 1997. The team (Iwan Thomas, Roger Black, Jamie Baulch, and Mark Richardson) came in second by 0.18 seconds to the United States in second place. However, in 2008, US team member Antonio Pettigrew, who served in the second leg of the final, testified that he had been aided by performance-enhancing drugs from 1997 to 2001, including the 1997 World Championships. Although the International Amateur Athletics Federation did not change results retrospectively more than eight years after the event, Pettigrew's medals were not given retrospectively, but it was not awarded the gold medal.
The 1997 World Championship 4 400 m relay team in the United Kingdom were supposed to receive the gold medal on January 7, 2010, but the disqualified USA team had been denied the honor by the disqualified team. As not all of the American quartet returned the originals, new medals were awarded for the occasion. Thomas received his gold medal in May 2010 in a lecture delivered by Alun Ffred Jones at Cardiff Bay.
Thomas' career was hampered by injuries, including a stress fractured ankle in 1999 that necessitated telescopic surgery. He was also hurt in 2003 due to Achilles tendinopathy. He was barred from the 2004 Olympic Games due to a new injury in 2004. Thomas was selected by the Welsh team for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, but he was unable to participate due to a injury.
Iwan never officially retired from sports, but he had the opportunity to do so when Andy Goldstein's Sports Bar on TalkSPORT on July 3rd, 2012. In the 4 400 m relay, he is still the UK record holder.