Andrew Pozzi
Pozzi at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Andrew William Pozzi |
| Nationality | British |
| Born |
15 May 1992 Stratford-upon-Avon, England |
| Residence | Bristol, England and Stratford-upon-Avon, England |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb; 12.3 st) |
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| Sport | Hurdling |
| Event(s) | 110m |
| Club | Stratford-upon-Avon |
| Coached by | Malcolm Arnold |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) |
100m Hurdles (U20): 13.29s 60m Hurdles: 7.43s 110m Hurdles: 13.19s |
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Medal record
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Andrew William Pozzi (born 15 May 1992) is a British hurdling athlete who specialises in the 110 metres hurdles. He was the 2012 UK 60m and 110m Champion and holds the record for the fastest ever time run by a UK junior hurdler. The record time, 13.29 seconds, was set on 3 July 2011 in Mannheim, Germany at the Bauhaus Junior Gala.
Pozzi is coached by Malcolm Arnold, the former coach of Olympic silver medalist and two-time World Championship gold medalist Colin Jackson and 400m Olympic gold medalist John Akii-Bua.
On 26 November 2011, Pozzi won "Outstanding Athlete of the Year" at the UK Athletics Awards.
Pozzi was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire on 15 May 1992. He attended St Gregory's Catholic Primary School in Stratford and later St Benedict's High School in neighbouring town Alcester. He then went on to complete his A-Levels at Alcester Grammar before attending The University of the West of England, Bristol.
Pozzi begun his career competing for Stratford AC, of which he is still a first-claim member. From 2010-11 he competed as a junior for 'Avon Spa', a joint effort between Stratford AC and Leamington C&AC in the National Junior Athletic League. Pozzi currently holds the record for the fastest ever time run by a UK junior hurdler (13.29s), setting the record at the Bauhaus Junior Gala in Manheim, Germany on 3 July 2011.
He won a Silver medal at the 2011 European Junior Athletics Championships in Tallinn, Estonia with a time of 13.57s and immediately began focusing on making the transition from junior events to senior competitions.
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