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Dean Macey

Dean Macey
Personal information
Nickname(s) The Dean Machine
Born (1977-12-12) 12 December 1977 (age 39)
Rochford, Essex, England
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Sport
Event(s) Decathlon
Club Harrow
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 8603 points

Dean Macey (born 12 December 1977) is an English athlete from Canvey Island. He is best known for competing in the decathlon, which he did from 1995 to 2008, winning the Commonwealth Games decathlon, two World Championship medals, as well as twice finishing fourth in the Olympic Games. Retiring from decathlon due to injury, he has competed in the bobsleigh since 2008.

A popular media figure during and after his athletics career, he is a keen angler and has presented an angling television series "On Coarse" for the Discovery Channel. He has also set a record time (0:56) on the Total Wipeout Qualifier.

Macey was born in Rochford, Essex. He started out in athletics as a high jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower but graduated up through the octathlon to settle on the decathlon. He was also on the books of Arsenal as a youngster but gave up football to train for the World Junior Championships in 1995. Macey's major breakthrough was when he won silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in the Olympic Stadium, Seville, Spain with a personal best of 8556 points finishing behind gold medallist Tomáš Dvořák of the Czech Republic. Macey was the inaugural winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality in 1999.


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