Danny Talbot (born 1 May 1991) is a retired British sprinter who competed in the

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and the

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Career

Talbot won the 200 m bronze medal at the

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in Helsinki. For

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in the

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at the

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, he ran the third leg in the heats but failed to exchange the baton with anchor

Adam Gemili Adam Ahmed Gemili (born 6 October 1993) is a British sprinter. He is the 2014 European champion at 200 metres, three-time European champion in the 4 × 100 metres relay, and part of the Great Britain team that won gold at the 2017 World Cham ...

. He ran again for Britain in the 4 × 100 at the 2014 World Relay Championships, forming part of a quartet which ran 37.93 in the heats and went on to win bronze. At the

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held in London in 2017, Talbot qualified for the

semifinal with a personal best of 20.16 in his heat on 7 August. Five days later he ran the third leg for the

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team which won the gold medal in a time of 37.47, a British and European record. Talbot retired from athletics competitions in December 2021.

Personal life

Talbot's father is British and his mother is half

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. Talbot attended

St Augustine's Catholic College St. Augustine's Catholic College is a Catholic academy secondary school in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, with a sixth form for years 12 and 13. The school opened on its current site in the western suburbs of Trowbridge in 1967. Formerly a vo ...

Trowbridge Trowbridge ( ) is the county town of Wiltshire, England; situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset. The town lies south-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, south-west of Swindon and south-east of Brist ...

, Wiltshire.

Competition record

¹Did not finish in the final

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Talbot, Daniel 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Trowbridge English male sprinters British male sprinters Olympic male sprinters Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships winners European Athletics Championships medalists British Athletics Championships winners Team Bath track and field athletes English people of Trinidad and Tobago descent Sportspeople of Trinidad and Tobago descent Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century English sportsmen Commonwealth Games silver medallists in athletics