Carl Edward Thackery (born 14 October 1962 in

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, England) is a retired British

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, who competed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Athletics career

He ran twice for Great Britain in the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, finishing 16th and winning team silver in 1992 and winning individual and team bronzes in 1993. He also finished 14th in the 1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres, won team silver at the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race (where he finished 20th), and won team silver at the IAAF World Road Relay Championships in 1986, helping to set a UK record for the road marathon relay in the process. He represented

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in the marathon event, at the

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. At a domestic level, he was the English AAA 10,000 metres champion in 1991 and the English Inter-Counties Cross Country champion in 1987. Thackery won a number of prestigious international road races, including the City-Pier-City Half Marathon in The Hague, the

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(twice), the 15 km Seven Hills Race (

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) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, the

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in Washington DC, the Trevira Twosome 10 miles in New York Central Park, the Jean Bouin Memorial in Barcelona (twice), and La Matesina 10 km in Bojano/Italy. In the UK, he won the Nike

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in 1998 and ran world-class sub-46.40 min times when winning the Brampton-Carlisle and Erewash 10 miles in 1991 and 1992 respectively. Thackery also won two Grand Prix track races in 1987 – the 10,000 metres at the Paris BNP meeting and the one-hour event at the Herculis meeting in Monaco. His half-marathon personal best of 61 min 04 sec ranked him first in the world in 1987. Thackery set the British and Commonwealth records for 20,000 metres and one hour on the track at La Flèche in France in 1990.

Personal Bests

*10,000 metres 27.59.24 Paris 1987, *10 km 28.14 Hiroshima 1986, *10 miles 46.26 Washington DC 1991, *20,000 metres 57.28.7 La Flèche 1990, *20 km 59.01 Perros-Guirec/France 1996, *One hour 20.855 km La Flèche 1990, *Half marathon 61.04 Barnsley 1987, *Marathon 2.12.37 Carpi/Italy 1992

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thackery, Carl 1962 births Living people British male long-distance runners Sportspeople from Sheffield Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for England