14 Facts About Dean Macey

Dean Macey was born on 12 December 1977 and is an English athlete from Canvey Island.

Dean Macey is best known for competing in the decathlon, which he did from 1995 to 2008, winning the Commonwealth Games decathlon, two World Championship medals, as well as twice finishing fourth in the Olympic Games.

Dean Macey has set a record time on the Total Wipeout Qualifier.

Dean Macey started out in athletics as a high jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower but graduated up through the octathlon to settle on the decathlon.

Dean Macey was on the books of Arsenal as a youngster but gave up football to train for the World Junior Championships in 1995.

Dean Macey was the inaugural winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality in 1999.

Dean Macey was back amongst the medals at the 2001 World Championships in the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, improving on his personal best yet again, with 8603 points finishing with the bronze medal, behind Tomas Dvorak, and Erki Nool.

Dean Macey worked for BBC TV during the Commonwealth Games.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece Dean Macey performed well, in view of the recent years away from competition, but with a possible medal in his grasp, a below par pole vault and javelin throw left him in fourth place at an Olympic competition behind Roman Sebrle, Bryan Clay and Dmitriy Karpov.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, despite still nursing some injuries, Dean Macey led after the first day with a personal best of 15.83 metres in the last round of the shot put.

Dean Macey completed the event in 4:34.22, which gave him the gold medal by 69 points.

Dean Macey finished with a total of 8,143 points, ahead of the Jamaican Maurice Smith and Dudley.

In 2008 after a failure to reach the B Qualifying standard for the 2008 Olympic Games, at the Hexham International Combined Events Meeting, Dean Macey admitted that he was considering his future.

Dean Macey worked as part of the commentary team for Radio 5 Live's coverage of the 2010 Commonwealth Games and Al Jazeera Sports' coverage of the 2010 Asian Games, as well as Channel 4's screening of the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships.