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Colin Jackson
Colin Jackson CBE is a two-time world champion hurdler and BBC athletics commentator who speaks at conferences and after-dinner events about the highs and lows of 13 years as 110m hurdles world record holder.
Colin Jackson CBE is a two-time world champion hurdler and one of the BBC's best-known athletics voices. He speaks at conferences and after-dinner events about what it took to reach the top of his sport and stay there.
Colin's 110m hurdles world record of 12.91 stood for nearly 13 years and remains the European record, and his 60m hurdles world indoor record lasted almost 27. He won 25 major championship medals, including Olympic silver, and has commentated on six Summer Olympics for the BBC, from Athens 2004 to Paris 2024.
Colin's stories come from a career spent in the fine margins of a 13-second race, where one clipped hurdle can decide a title. He talks candidly about the highs and lows, including the races that went wrong as well as the ones that made history, and two decades in the commentary box have given him a broadcaster's ear for a story.
Audiences get a first-hand account of staying at the top of a sport for more than a decade, how he handled the pressure of a single race, and what changed when he moved from competing to broadcasting. It's a natural fit for sports dinners, awards evenings, and conference keynotes.
Book Colin for an evening or keynote built on world-record stories, told by someone who's spent 20 years telling them for a living.
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Colin Jackson builds his talks around first-hand accounts of the highs and lows of his hurdling career, using specific races to show what pressure felt like on the track.
Colin Jackson CBE speaks on high performance, Olympic achievement, and staying at the top of elite sport. A two-time world champion, he held the 110m hurdles world record for nearly 13 years and has commentated on six Summer Olympics for the BBC.
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