For the Zimbabwean cricketer, see Michael McKillop (cricketer).
Michael McKillop
Personal information
Born
(1990-01-27) 27 January 1990 (age 34) Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Sport
Sport
Running
Disability class
T37, T38
Event(s)
800 metres, 1500 metres
College team
St Malachy's College, Belfast
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
800 m: 1:54.40 1500 m: 3:51.74[1]
Medal record
Representing Ireland
Men's paralympic athletics
Summer Paralympics
2008 Beijing
800 m T37
2012 London
800 m T37
2012 London
1500 m T37
2016 Rio de Janeiro
1500 m T37
IPC Athletics World Championships
2006 Assen
800 m T37
2011 Christchurch
800 m T37
2015 Doha
800 m T38
2015 Doha
1,500 m T37
IPC Athletics European Championships
2014 Swansea
800 m T37
2014 Swansea
1500 m T38
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Michael Gerard McKillopMBE (born 27 January 1990 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is an Irish middle distance runner. He competes in the T37 disability sport classification, as he has a mild form of cerebral palsy.[2]
He won the 800m title at the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships, clocking just over 2:02. and he represented Ireland at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal at the T37 800 m clipping almost three seconds off his previous mark as he strode to an emphatic win in 1:59.41. His time was a Paralympic record. McKillop won the 800 m title at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in world-record time of 1:58.90, he also set a 1500 m world record but was not awarded a medal because of the lack of entries.[3][4] in the London 2012 Paralympics, McKillop won gold for the men's 800 meter t37 with a time of 1:57.22;[5] this was a world record. He won the 1500m T37 race in the 2012 London Paralympics. The medal was later presented to him by his mother, Catherine McKillop, an ambassador of Procter & Gamble. He defended his 1500m T37 title at the 2016 Rio Paralympics securing the gold medal once again.
He is coached by his father Paddy, who was awarded Northern Ireland Sports Coach of the Year. McKillop has a personal best in his preferred 800 metres of 1:57.22.
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In 2012, McKillop was awarded the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award.[9]
McKillop was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to disability awareness and athletics in Northern Ireland.[10]
^"European Athletics Homepage | European Athletics". Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
^Haughey, John (3 September 2008). "McKillop mission". BBC News. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^"Michael McKillop wins gold medal at Paralympic Worlds". BBC News. 28 January 2011. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^O'Riordan, Tom (29 January 2011). "Athletics: McKillop breaks 800m world record to claim gold". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^"McKillop storms to second gold". Irish Times. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
^"McKillop claims Irish gold at Paralympic Games". RTÉ Sport. 23 September 2008. Archived from the original on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^"McKillop claims gold for Ireland". BBC News. 10 September 2008. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^Collins, Siasy; Katarzyna Wilczynska (10 September 2008). "Ireland's Michael McKillop, smashes the 800m World Record and wins Gold at the Paralympics". europeanirish.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
^Duncan Mackay (9 September 2012), Pistorius overlooked for London 2012 fair play award as Ireland's McKillop chosen, Inside the Games, archived from the original on 9 September 2012
^"No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N20.
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