Roger Black

Roger Black's record makes me pause and admire it. A 190cm British quarter-miler, he took individual 400m silver at both the Olympics and the World Championships, struck individual gold at the Europeans twice, and added relay gold on both stages. There is a particular dignity in being the man a step behind the very best, again and again, and then converting that into a thoughtful broadcasting career capped by an MBE. The Portsmouth-born athlete, born in 1966, embodies what I think of as the aesthetics of silver: the near-miss that often produces the most reflective and articulate voices in sport.

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Name (English)

Roger Black

Name (Japanese)

ロジャー・ブラック

Reading

ろじゃー・ぶらっく

Born

March 31, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Height

190 cm

Occupation

television presenter / sprinter / athletics competitor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Awards & achievements

• Member of the Order of the British Empire

• Official sitehttps://www.rogerblack.co.uk/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Black
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q573215

Tags

• television presenter
• sprinter
• athletics competitor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.