Timothy Beck
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2003 Paris | 4x100 m relay |
Timothy Beck (born 2 January 1977 in Assen) is a Dutch sprinter. Together with Caimin Douglas, Patrick van Balkom and Troy Douglas he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. With the same team he also participated in the 4 x 100 meters relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but due to a mistake in the changing area they did not advance from the series.
Beck also competed as a bobsledder in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he finished in seventeenth position in the Four Men's Bob. He carried the Dutch flag at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is of African-American descent.[1]
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Personal bests
- 60 metres – 6.71 (2004)
- 100 metres – 10.43 (2004)
- 200 metres – 21.54 (2003)
References
- ^ "Black Europeans competing at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver". 11 February 2010. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
External links
Categories:
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Dutch male sprinters
- Dutch male bobsledders
- Olympic athletes for the Netherlands
- Olympic bobsledders for the Netherlands
- Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Assen
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands
- Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent
- Dutch athletics biography stubs
- European bobsleigh biography stubs
- Dutch winter sports biography stubs