Martyn Rooney

Standing 198 cm, Martyn Rooney had a physical gift for the 400 metres that bordered on unfair, but it is his reliability that wins me over. Reaching the Olympic final in 2008, taking relay bronze, then silver at the 2009 World Championships, he became Britain's trusted anchor leg for years. Individual brilliance is one thing, but being entrusted with the final lap and the whole team's fate, again and again, says everything about the man's nerve. I love an athlete you can lean on when it matters most, and his Loughborough-honed stride slicing through the track is a thrilling image.

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Name (English)

Martyn Rooney

Name (Japanese)

マーティン・ルーニー

Reading

まーてぃん・るーにー

Born

April 3, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Croydon, United Kingdom

Height

198 cm

Occupation

sprinter / athletics competitor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

University

Loughborough University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn%20Rooney
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q785876

Tags

• sprinter
• athletics competitor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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