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He did not start to focus on athletics until he turned 19 years old.
He won two silver medals at Seoul’s 1988 Olympics and a gold medal at Barcelona’s 1992 Olympics.
Linford Cicero Christie OBE (born 2 April 1960) is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was the first European to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m and still holds the British record in the event. He is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100 m and 4 × 100 metres relay.
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Christie won the 100 m silver behind Carl Lewis after Johnson, who set a world record in 9.79 seconds, was again disqualified following a positive drug test. Christie’s time was 9.97 seconds, a new European record by 0.03 seconds and only happened twice until before then that anyone had ever broken the ten-second barrier but not won the race.
He was appointed MBE in 1990 and OBE in 1998. In 1993 the West London Stadium was renamed the Linford Christie Stadium in his honour. Christie’s claim that he started races on the “B of the Bang” inspired a large public sculpture of the same name. Erected as a celebration of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, it was officially unveiled by Christie in 2004. Owing to safety concerns, it was dismantled in 2009. In 2010, he was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame and in 2009 he was inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame.
