Lawrence Somerset Clarke
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| Nationality | English/American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 March 1990 Westminster, London, England |
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| Residence | Paris, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb; 12.1 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running / Hurdling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 110m Hurdles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | US Créteil-Lusitanos (France), Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club (England). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) |
110m Hurdles (U20): 13.37 60m Hurdles: 7.59 110m Hurdles: 13.31/13.14w |
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Charles Lawrence Somerset Clarke (born 12 March 1990 in Westminster, London), commonly known as Lawrence Clarke, is a professional 110m hurdler who notably finished fourth in the London Olympic Games 110m Hurdles Final. He is the son of Sir Toby Clarke, 6th Baronet and is the heir apparent to the baronetcy. He served as Captain of the Great Britain Athletics Team at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships and was coached in Bath by Malcolm Arnold OBE, the former coach of Colin Jackson CBE and John Akii-Bua. He is currently coached in Paris by Giscard Samba Koundys.
Clarke was educated at two independent schools: at Summer Fields School in the city of Oxford in Oxfordshire, and Eton College in the small town of Eton in Berkshire. He went on to study Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol, gaining a Second class honours, upper division (2:1). He studied at the University of Bath for a Masters in Management with a specialisation in UK Targeted Absolute Return Equity Fund Management.
Clarke is the son of Sir Tobias Clarke, 6th Baronet. Clarke's maternal grandfather was the Conservative MP Somerset de Chair, son of Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair KCB KCMG KBE MVO. He takes his name Lawrence from his American ancestor Abbott Lawrence. His uncle-by-marriage is Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is a descendant of the Roosevelt Family.
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