Avard Moncur
Moncur (front) in 2000 | ||
Medal record | ||
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Men's athletics | ||
Representing Bahamas | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2008 Beijing | 4x400 m relay | |
2000 Sydney | 4x400 m relay | |
World Championships | ||
2001 Edmonton | 400 m | |
2001 Edmonton | 4x400 m relay[1] | |
2005 Helsinki | 4x400 m relay | |
2007 Osaka | 4x400 m relay | |
2003 Paris | 4x400 m relay | |
Commonwealth Games | ||
2002 Manchester | 400 m | |
Pan American Games | ||
2007 Rio de Janeiro | 4x400 m relay | |
CAC Championships | ||
2003 St George's | 4×400 m relay | |
2011 Mayagüez | 4×400 m relay | |
2008 Cali | 4×400 m relay | |
CAC Junior Championships (U20) | ||
1996 San Salvador | 400 m | |
1996 San Salvador | 4x100 m relay | |
CARIFTA Games Junior (U20) | ||
1995 George Town | 400 m | |
1997 Bridgetown | 400 m | |
1995 George Town | 4x400m relay | |
1996 Kingston | 400 m |
Avard Moncur (born November 2, 1978) is a Bahamian track and field athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau.[2]
Career[]
Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m and the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2001 World Championships.[1] Moncur has only managed to make one more appearance in the individual final of a major championship, at the 2007 World Championships where he finished 8th.
More success, however, has come has part of the Bahamas relay team. At the 2005 World Championships he (together with Nathaniel McKinney, Andrae Williams and Chris Brown) won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay.
At the 2007 World Championships, Moncur (together with Williams, Brown and Michael Mathieu) won silver in the 4 × 400 m relay for the third time in 2.59.18s.[3]
Moncur's personal best time and national record[4] in the 400m is 44.45 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Madrid. However, Chris Brown tied Moncur's national record at the 2007 World Championships.[5]
In addition to currently coaching at the collegiate level, Moncur is coaching one on one lessons to track & field athletes in Atlanta, GA.[6]
Achievements[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing the Bahamas | |||||
1995 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | George Town, Cayman Islands | 1st | 400 m | 47.40 |
7th | 400 m hurdles | 56.09 | |||
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:15.69 | |||
1996 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Kingston, Jamaica | 2nd | 400 m | 47.10 |
CAC Junior Championships (U-20) | San Salvador, El Salvador | 2nd | 400 m | 47.09 | |
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 41.51 | |||
World Junior Championships | Sydney, Australia | 17th (sf) | 400m | 47.90 | |
1997 | CARIFTA Games (U-20) | Bridgetown, Barbados | 1st | 400 m | 46.90 |
1999 | Pan American Games | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | 8th | 400 m | 45.60 |
1st (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.73 | |||
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 5th (sf) | 400 m | 45.18 |
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:59.23 | |||
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 1st | 400 m | 44.64 |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:58.19 | |||
Goodwill Games | Brisbane, Australia | 2nd | 400 m | 45.31 | |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.67 | |||
2002 | Commonwealth Games | Manchester, England | 3rd | 400 m | 45.12 |
IAAF Grand Prix Final | Paris, France | 4th | 400 m | 44.97 | |
2003 | CAC Championships | St. George's, Grenada | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.56 |
World Championships | Paris, France | 18th (sf) | 400 m | 45.65 | |
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:00.53 | |||
2005 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:57.32 NR |
2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 10th (sf) | 400 m | 45.72 |
— | 4 × 400 m relay | DNF | |||
2007 | Pan American Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1st | 400 m | 44.85 SB |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.94 | |||
World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 8th | 400 m | 45.40 | |
2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:59.18 SB | |||
2008 | CAC Championships | Cali, Colombia | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.48 |
Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:59.88 (h) SB | |
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | — | 4 × 400 m relay | DQ |
2011 | CAC Championships | Mayagüez, Puerto Rico | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.33 |
World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 9th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.54 |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b The Bahamas 4x400 team won originally the silver medal, but the USA 4x400 team, which originally finished first in 4x400 m relay, was disqualified in 2008 due to Antonio Pettigrew confession of using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.
- ^ Olympians – Avard Moncur, Bahamas Olympic Committee, retrieved 18 April 2012
- ^ http://au.sports.yahoo.com/070902/3/1dor8.html[permanent dead link]
- ^ Commonwealth All-Time Lists (Men) Archived 2007-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ iaaf.org – Osaka 2007 – News Archived February 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.coachup.com/coaches/avardm[permanent dead link]
External links[]
- Avard Moncur at World Athletics
- Picture of Avard Moncur
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Nassau, Bahamas
- Bahamian male sprinters
- Olympic athletes of the Bahamas
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Olympic silver medalists for the Bahamas
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Bahamas
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for the Bahamas
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the Bahamas
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for the Bahamas
- Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games